A quickie update for the southerly inclined. One advantage of a small-town sensibility (actually, Eugene/Springfield, ain't that small, coming in at a little under half the Portland population) is that our press is easier to reach. This year we got lucky. We will have editorial coverage in both the Eugene Weekly and our big daily newspaper, the Register-Guard, pointing at us prior to the event. At least one public radio station is already running PSAs. ("PSA" has always sounded to me like an acronym for summat you don't want in your urinary tract.) Plus, we are all over the local gardening scene like a cheap suit. So, all told, a hoopla on our hands, perraps. We will be a good deal more modest in scale than this weekend's event in Portland, but here's hoping we don't make too much of a fool of ourselves now that punters will be coming our way in earnest. I'm a leetle nervous.
I will be nipping up I-5 to help with setup in Milwaukie this Friday, with a buddy in tow. Very much looking forward to seeing everyone again.
The south valley hicks visit Portland. Me, wide-eyed at all those fancy big city clothes n' shoes n' things at last spring's event. And that was just the characters at the grafting table.
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2009 Spring Propagation Fair
Lane County, OR
Lane Community College Cafeteria
10.00 a.m. – 4.00 p.m. Saturday, March 14
A free, volunteer-driven event designed to support home orchardists and vegetable gardeners in and around the S. Willamette Valley.
A great variety of scions (fruit-tree cuttings) and vegetable seed, will be provided free of charge by local fruit enthusiasts and seed-savers at the Fair. Rootstocks will be available for a nominal fee. Grafting assistance will be provided.
Bring your own labeled cuttings and divisions of figs, grapes, berries and other fruits to share freely with others at the Fair; along with fresh seed, plants and divisions of vegetable crops.
You don’t have to bring any scion or seed to the event to be able to attend and share freely in the bounty. All are welcome.
Co-sponsored by the Eugene Permaculture Guild, the Seed Ambassadors Project, Lane Community College Garden Club, Victory Gardens For All, the School Garden Project of Lane County, Huerto de la Famila, ECOS, the Springfield Transitions Garden, Food Not Lawns, the Gardens Program of Food for Lane County, the Urban Farm Program of the U of O, and the OSU Extension Service in Lane County.
Nick, great effort!
Question: will you take any of ‘our’ scion wood back with you..? I seem to last remember us dumping it after the ‘Portland’ (Milwaukie) exchange. I believe I asked if we weren’t shipping it South to CA and was told their event was being held earlier… or something like that?
Have you negotiated for our left-over scion wood? A decade ago we’d haul it out to Yamhill County and ‘do it all over again’ – after two such events we were scioned out!
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