If you like growing your own food, then perhaps culinary mushroom cultivation is next on the menu for you. With a focus on Shiitake mushrooms, OSU Extension will cover preferred growing media, inoculation methods, caring for your logs, money-saving tips, harvesting, and more.
Presenter, Alicia Christiansen, has been with OSU Extension for 8 years. She works with a wide variety of audiences, most often small woodland owners, to provide education and outreach for forestry and natural resource subjects. She enjoys helping landowners gain forest management knowledge and experience through site visits, workshops, and tours.
This part of OSU Extension’s Growing Oregon Gardeners Level Up Series. The goal of this offering is to offer folks alternatives at a time of rising prices.
“One in five people faces hunger in Oregon. And the pandemic showed us the fragility of our supply system. Growing our own food—for us, for our families, for our neighbors—is an action gardeners can take to strengthen food security in our local communities. This year’s Growing Oregon Gardeners: Level Up series is aimed at helping gardeners take a bite out of hunger,” said a release from the organizers.
The closed-captioned webinars will be broadcast via Zoom and streamed via Extension’s Facebook page on the second Tuesday of the month, at noon, This series is open to the public, 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. By the way they’ve doing this series since February, and the video are available.
Scheduled for Tuesday, October 8, from 12 to 1 pm. Click here to register. Free.
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