{"id":1245,"date":"2024-01-31T20:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2024-01-31T20:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T20:04:24","slug":"growing-oregon-gardeners-level-up-webinar-series-launches-a-year-of-getting-good-at-growing-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2024\/01\/31\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-up-webinar-series-launches-a-year-of-getting-good-at-growing-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up webinar series launches a year of getting good at growing food"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"675\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/osu-wams-blogs-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogs.dir\/2972\/files\/2024\/01\/GrowingOregonGardenersMain2024.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1246\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The cost of food keeps climbing. One in five people faces hunger in Oregon. And the pandemic showed us the fragility of our supply system. Growing our own food\u2014for us, for our families, for our neighbors\u2014is an action gardeners can take to strengthen food security in our local communities. This year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-series-2024\">Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up series<\/a> is aimed at helping gardeners take a bite out of hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine free closed-captioned webinars will be broadcast via Zoom and streamed via our Facebook page on the second Tuesday of the month, at noon, February through October 2024. Experts in their field, from OSU and beyond, present on topics such as how to get the most yield from cool season veggies to growing produce to donate to food banks to how to grow culinary mushrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This series is open to the public, for the experienced gardener and OSU Extension Master Gardener volunteers receive 1 Continuing Education Credit for each class. You can take one, or take all. This webinar is being recorded and will be available to view on our website within two weeks of airdate. <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-series-2024\">Register today!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a bonus: if you can\u2019t wait to attend these live events, we\u2019ve pulled a collection of eleven past webinars devoted to growing food in this series and <a href=\"https:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-series-2024\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/extension.oregonstate.edu\/mg\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-series-2024\">made them available on our website<\/a>. That\u2019s eleven hours of free education to get started with right now! We\u2019re predicting a bumper crop of successful gardeners growing plants for food all across Oregon this year: see you online and in the garden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of food keeps climbing. One in five people faces hunger in Oregon. And the pandemic showed us the fragility of our supply system. Growing our own food\u2014for us, for our families, for our neighbors\u2014is an action gardeners can take to strengthen food security in our local communities. This year&#8217;s Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/2024\/01\/31\/growing-oregon-gardeners-level-up-webinar-series-launches-a-year-of-getting-good-at-growing-food\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up webinar series launches a year of getting good at growing food&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[812,1238845,1238871,502],"tags":[1228553,1238723],"class_list":["post-1245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","category-community-horticulture","category-continuing-education","category-events","tag-master-gardener-activities","tag-recertification"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/mgcoordinators\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}