Sunday, October 27 Event: Mt Pisgah Arboretum Annual Mushroom Festival Booth Come to the Arboretum for a day of music, food, guided walks, a kids’ craft area, and, of course, mushroom displays, mushroom soup, and mushroom-themed gifts! Emerald Chapter will have our booth set up in non-profit row near the scarecrow contest, so come visit...
Sunday, October 27, 9:00 am – 5:00 pm Field Trip: Metolius River Trail Matt Palmquist and Elliot Drake-Maurer will lead a relaxed, 3-mile stroll along the Metolius River trail. This “larch march” will feature the golden needles of the Western Larch, Oregon’s only native deciduous conifer, as well as a variety of other conifers. The trail is...
Sunday, October 27, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Event: Tour of Native Plant Production at White Oak Nursery Leader: Taylor Starr White Oak Nursery Director Taylor Starr will lead a tour of the native plant nursery at White Oak Farm and Education Center in Williams. White Oak grows more than twenty species of native woody plants, primarily...
EVENT: Pop-up Meadow, Group Costume Ashland Halloween Parade Thursday Oct. 31, 3:00-4:30 No sign up, just show up! Botanical Halloween! This October, we’re inviting folks to join us for the Ashland Children’s Halloween Parade by dressing up as your favorite native plant! The parade will take place on October 31: 3:30-4:30. Families, friends, and plant enthusiasts...
Saturday, November 2, 2024, 9:00 am - late afternoon Event: Mushroom Foray Leader: Dan Luoma Location: Meet at the north side of the Philomath Ace Hardware parking lot Come prepared for the weather and mushroom hunting. Contact Dan Luoma for more information at: daniel.luoma@oregonstate.edu.
Monday, November 11, 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm Program: Seeds, Sex, and Survival: The Plant-Insect Interactions of Meadow Checkermallow (Sidalcea campestris) Speaker: Brooklyn Richards Location: Room 2602, Cordley Hall, Oregon State University Campus, 2701SW Campus Way or via Zoom. (Zoom link in next Bulletin) The evolution of separate sexes is widespread in flowering plants. Gynodioecy, which...
Thursday, November 14, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Program: The Beauty in Biodiversity: Conservation and Cultivation of Native Plants in the Columbia River Gorge Speakers: Kristin Currin and Andrew Merritt, co-founders of Humble Roots Nursery and coauthors of the Pacific Northwest Native Plant Primer Location: Via Zoom, register here Kristin and Drew share stories and insights from over twenty years...
Siskiyou Chapter our meetings are always the Third Thursday at 7 pm at SOU in SC 161, with the topic TBD prior to the publishing of the Bulletin for that month.
Saturday, November 23, 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Event: Work Party at the Avery Native Plant Garden Leader: Esther McEvoy Location: Avery House Nature Center, Avery Park, Corvallis More fall cleanup. Dress for the weather and bring gloves, shovel, and clippers. Contact Esther for more information or to RSVP at 541-990-0948 or estherco@peak.org.