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Ross Penhallegon, Horticulture Agent

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 ood ± big picture

 Transportation
 ood and how it is produced
 Local sources vs long distance
 ood wastes
 ards
 Composting
 Sustainable landscapes
 Ohere does food come from?

 Ohere does it come from November to April?

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 Small«««Medium«««.Large
 Ohat can we do about the food production
issues?

 Ohat are our local choices?

 Regional ag center, regional farmers market,

regional certified kitchen, region cleaning-
packaging center
 armers markets
Eugene Veneta
Springfield Creswell
Dexter Junction City

Local farm stands

ood webs
Local grains and flour
 urassRoots uarden

 - Coburg Road

 Use 60 tons of leaves and produce 60,000

pounds of food for ood for Lane County

 Community uardens
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 15-25% of the ³fresh´ food in the store is

wasted

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 1 ± Picked and shipped a long distance

 2 ± ³Cardboard¶ fruit and veges
 3 ± mproper storage ³in´ the stores
 4 ± People purchasing T much food or not
enough food
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  D PRESERVAT N

 A way to save food for later

 Name the ways:

 Dry
 Can ± when is the BEST time to can?
 reeze dry
 Have long lasting fruits and veges, ie -
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 S LS and their importance to sustainability

 Nitrogen Cycle

 NH4 ± ammonium

 2N 2 ± nitrate 2N 3 - nitrate
 RRuAT N

 1- USE LESS
 2 - HAVE N R LESS LAON
 3 ± Native plants
 4 ± Oater early AM or early PM. Ohy?

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 Problems with watering at night?

5 ± Monitor water use ± see web devise.

6- Using soaker hoses or drip lines
7- Develop a rain barrel system
8 ± Use compost or mulches. Saves 50% of
the water. Ohy?
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 Reduce organic materials into the land fill.

 Provides great M for the yard and garden.
 Smoothers many weeds.
 Saves water.
 Can be used as a fertilizer.
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 Compost ±what is compost?

 Compost specialists
 - 62504 pounds of coffee grounds used in
gardens. (Plants are not sleep at night
now!!!)
 -28572 pounds of veg waste
 Compost tea
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 Piles
 Sheet or lasagna
 Deep row
 Slow cook
 Bins, i.e.- Darth vader type
 Long term!!!
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 C NTR L  OEEDS:
 Squish
 Cover plants
 Live with 20% loss production or loss
 Predators
 Small uses of organic or synthetic pesticides
only if needed.
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 Diseases:
Space plants more open
No evening watering
Have ³quick´ harvest of plants
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 L O NSECT /DSEASE PLANTS

 Lettuce, chard, early radishes, spinach,

 squash, carrots, cabbage, beets

 MEDUM: potatoes, cucumbers,

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 August ± Master uarden applications

 Sustainable landscape classes
 See out web site:
 http://extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/
 Pruning ± May 17 and 19
 Community uardening Series ± PM May 26
 Covered at lot of things.

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