Tuesday November 17th

1pm

Building 3 at the OSU Extension Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Featured speaker: Jenna Deibel presenting information about Junipers and Keeping your Garden Fire wise.Jenna Deibel serves as the Central Oregon Forestry and Natural Resources Extension Agent, working across Crook, Deschutes, and Jefferson counties, as well as with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. A natural resources generalist, her work focuses on juniper ecology and management, along with broader forest health issues including pests, diseases, and environmental stress.

Deibel holds both bachelor’s and master’s degrees in natural resources from Oregon State University. During her graduate studies, she lived in Prineville and conducted the baseline wilderness character monitoring assessment for the Ochoco National Forest. Her professional background includes four seasons with the U.S. Forest Service on Mt. Hood and in California, with experience ranging from wilderness data collection and trail crew work to wilderness rangering. She has also developed and taught Recreation Resource Management coursework at OSU–Cascades.

In her current role, Deibel provides workshops, field tours, presentations, publications, and one-on-one support for landowners and land managers throughout Central Oregon.

Thursday January 21st

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Shiv Shakti is the founder of Shakti Farm Design, based in Bend, Oregon. His work focuses on designing and implementing climate-responsive greenhouses, regenerative gardens, and practical food-growing systems suited to Central Oregon's high-desert environment.

Working with homeowners, farms, schools, and community organizations, Shiv helps growers better understand greenhouse options, soil health, irrigation, ventilation, temperature management, and extending the growing season.

His presentation, Greenhouse Growing in Central Oregon, will explore practical greenhouse choices for home gardeners, considerations for cost and maintenance, and ways to grow more successfully in our challenging climate.

Shiv also offers professional on-site greenhouse consultations, repairs and improvement planning throughout Central Oregon.

Website: https://shaktifarmdesign.com

Thursday February 18th

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Featured speaker: Carol Gamm gardening specialist from Whistle Stop Nursery will be discussing Growing a Cutting Garden

Carol Gamm and has been in Central Oregon for over 40 years.  She enjoys gardening and trying to master the complicated environment we live in  Working at a local nursery has furthered her plant education and she so loves sharing what she knows.  

Thursday March 11th 

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Topic this month- Garden Club Sale

Thursday April 15th

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Featured speaker: Linda Beutler,  renowned clematis specialist from Rogerson's Clematis, will be speaking about growing in the high desert.

Linda Beutler grows a great variety of plants on a simple city lot in the Sellwood neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. Her passion for clematis led to the publication of her

first book, Gardening with Clematis (2004) followed by two more Timber Press titles:

Garden to Vase (2007), and 2016’s Plant Lovers Guide to Clematis. But before clematis, there were cutting gardens and old garden roses.

Linda serves as curator of the Rogerson Clematis Collection (owned by the non-profit Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection), North America’s only accredited clematis

collection, and she is the acting President of the International Clematis Society (and still serves on the Council). In July 2018 she was presented a Golden Clematis Award by the International Clematis Society for her service to the Society and the genus Clematis.

She has at last retired as an adjunct instructor of horticulture at Clackamas Community College (CCC) after 30 years of passing along her passion—and persnickety attention to nomenclatural detail—to her herbaceous perennials students (including color theory, cultivation, and design). 

She also taught classes on floral design and cutting gardens for home and commerce. In the summer of 2026, Linda led a workshop on lilies for the Hardy Plant Society of Oregon, as she becomes more involved with the North American Lily Society.

Linda lectures internationally on a variety of gardening topics, most recently on the Isle

of Guernsey for the International Clematis Society and is an avid garden traveler. One of her favorite destinations is the shale barrens of Virginia, where little grows except clematis. Look for her public webinar content at www.clematisinternational.com

Thursday May 20th

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Featured activity: Member Plant Exchange

Thursday June 17th

1-3 pm

Building 3 at the  OSU Extension Office Meeting Room on the Deschutes County Fairgrounds

Featured speaker: Jennifer Stenkamp long time Deschutes Co. Fair Floral dept. Superintendent will be speaking on floral contests, judging and arrangements.

Jennifer has been a Redmond gardener since moving here 34 years ago.  Thirty three years ago she entered her first floral arrangements and cut flowers in the Deschutes County Fair.  The following year she started volunteering as a clerk in the open class floral department, culminating in promotion to head superintendent for the department in 2012 and has been there since.   Since then she  has expanded the categories of varieties of cut flowers by nearly 50% as more cultivars become available.