Oregon Master Gardener

I'm studying botany; the terminology jostles my memory from Botany 101 some 40 years ago as I fondly invoke the words:  dicot, monocot, stigma, stamen, anther, xylem.  Oh dweeb indeed.  I'm enrolled in a Master Gardener program, all day each and every Tuesday for the next 13 weeks.  Sustainable gardening is the focus.  I envision a riot of vegetables and a profusion of flowers in my garden this season.  I actually imagine that every season but this is the one that will succeed!

Oregon State Extension Service provides this training as one of many educational services, for example: 4H, Food Preservation, Animal Husbandry, Trees and Woodlands.   Take this link to visit OSU Extension website


 My grandfather, Elmer O Post graduated from Oregon Ag, College (for a bit about him, click this link) in 1917 and the OAC Extension was already going strong providing education to improve rural life. Along the way, OAC became Oregon State University and OSU Extension.  OSU Extension held regular and well-attended meetings in my little Sitkum community during the 1950s.  I've benefited from their programs directly and indirectly ever since.  I've made my share of phone calls to the gardening hot-line and soon I'll be on the other end of those calls answering perplexing (or not) gardening questions.      

And working in the greenhouses!

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