ISSUE #34.25 • SPECIAL SECTION •

Events

[April 30th, 2008]

Clackamas Master Gardener Spring Garden Fair

Nearly 200 vendors drive gardeners into an acquisitive frenzy at this mega-sale at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby. Bone up at a free “10-Minute University” gardening workshop. 9 am-5 pm Saturday, May 3, and 9 am-5 pm Sunday, May 4. $3 fee for fairground entry. See website here. (SS)

VeggieBall

Rock that organic carrot costume at this benefit for Growing Gardens, a Portland nonprofit that creates backyard food gardens for low-income people and offers gardening classes for kids as well as workshops for adults. Staver Station, 2537 NW 29th Ave., 284-8420. 5:30-10 pm Saturday, May 17. $75, or $125 for two. See website here. (SS)

OSU Extension Master Gardener Drill Team

Garden volunteers in formations seldom seen in nature will perform aerial aeration using everyday garden tools at the Starlight Parade in downtown Portland. Have a question for a Master Gardener? Call a Hort Hotline Monday-Friday (9 am-noon, 1-4 pm) at 725-2300, or Monday-Thursday (9 am-11:30 am) and Tuesday and Thursday (1 pm-3:30 pm) at 655-8631. 8:30 pm Saturday, May 31. KGW-TV Channel 8 at 9 pm. To sign up for the next master gardener training program, beginning in January 2009, contact Jordis Yost, 650-3118, ordis.yost@oregonstate.edu. (SS)

Portland Fruit Tree Project

Have a tree dripping with fruit that goes to waste or slimes the sidewalk? This delicious organization will hook you up with volunteers to pick that fruit, to be shared among the owner, volunteers and the hungry. Eight harvesting parties in 2007, including a band of jolly fifth-graders, picked plums, pears, apples, figs and persimmons. The all-volunteer group, which hopes to become a nonprofit, also offers classes on canning in the summer and pruning in the winter. 284-6106, portlandfruit.org. (SS)