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New farmers learn basics at OSU’s farm school
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
tem, he said, “decide the end.”
OREGON CITY — He
was speaking to a class of
beginning beekeepers, but
Joe Maresh’s advice probably
could apply to all the prospec-
tive farmers who attended Or-
egon State University’s one-
day Small Farms School:
“Take your stings.”
In other words, accept the
fact that you will take your
lumps in agriculture. But that
doesn’t deter the people who
continue to Àock to OSU’s
popular small farms pro-
grams. At least 175 registered
for the Sept. 12 farm school
workshops and demonstra-
tions held at Clackamas Com-
munity College in Oregon
City southeast of Portland.
Classes offered through
the day ranged from horse and
sheep handling and emergen-
cy veterinary care to pasture
management, small engine
basics and how to grow blue-
berries.
Maresh, president of the
Portland Metro Beekeepers
Association, led about 30 stu-
dents through the basics of
keeping pollinators and col-
lecting honey.
Among his tips: Get into
your hives frequently to see
what’s going on, join a bee
club and get one or two good
The turnout for farm school
was indicative of the continued
intense interest, especially in
urban areas, about where food
comes from and how it’s pro-
duced, said Garry Stephenson,
director of OSU’s Center for
Small Farms and Community
Food Systems.
That interest can energize
agriculture as legions of baby
boomer farmers near retire-
ment age.
“We have a generation of
people in their 20s and 30s
who are interested in going
into farming as a business and
as a statement of how they see
the world,” Stephenson said.
“One of the hopes we have is
that they will eventually scale
up and become medium-size
farms.”
Not all the farm school
students were youngsters,
however.
John Hergenrather, attend-
ing from Hood River, said he’s
70 and his wife, Rhea, is 65.
They own a garden store and
cafe, and recently bought an
adjacent 6.5 acres on which
they hope to grow food and
plants to supply their business.
“We ask ourselves, ‘What
are we doing becoming farm-
ers now?’” Hergenrather said
with a laugh. “Lord knows.”
Where food is from
Eric Mortenson/Capital Press
Joe Maresh, left, president of the Portland Metro Beekeepers Association, advises beginning farmers during an OSU
Small Farm School session Sept. 12.
beekeeping books, not a
bunch.
“Avoid beekeeping on the
Internet,” Maresh advised.
“The Internet is not your
friend.
“You can ask ¿ve different
beekeepers a question,” he
added, “and get eight different
answers.”
Irrigation
Outside at the college’s
expansive crop plots, Aaron
Guffy of East Multnomah
Soil and Water Conservation
District talked irrigation ba-
sics with two dozen beginning
farmers.
In a fast-paced discus-
sion of screens, ¿lters, pump
pressure tanks and variable
frequency drives, Guffy em-
phasized the need to focus on
getting water from one place
to another.
“Before you decide the be-
ginning” of an irrigation sys-
Another food ¿ght? Congress mulls school meal standards
By MARY CLARE
JALONICK
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Con-
gress is deciding whether it
wants another pitched bat-
tle with ¿rst lady Michelle
Obama and the administration
over school lunches that put
more whole grains in kids’
meals and cut salty foods.
Last year, school food
rules pitted Michelle Obama
against Republicans seek-
ing full exemptions for some
schools. The ¿rst lady de-
clared that she would ¿ght “to
the bitter end” to make sure
kids have good nutrition.
Lawmakers are now hop-
ing to find bipartisan com-
promise on the rules and also
dollars for the nation’s child
nutrition programs before
the law expires Sept. 30. So
far, however, negotiations
have failed to produce a bill
in either the House or the
Senate.
Lawmakers may not seek
an immediate extension if the
law expires. The school foods
rules won’t change unless
Congress takes action, and
the Agriculture Department
says other programs would
continue to operate as long
as Congress passes a budget
this fall.
The rules phased in since
2012 set fat, calorie, sugar,
grain and sodium limits on
foods in the lunch line and be-
yond. Schools have long been
required to follow government
nutrition rules if they accept
federal reimbursements for
free and reduced-price meals
for low-income students, but
the new standards are stricter.
While many schools have
had success putting the rules
in place, many Republicans
say the standards have posed
too many challenges for
school nutrition of¿cials who
must balance serving healthy
foods with keeping participa-
tion up in their programs.
The School Nutrition As-
sociation, a group of school
nutrition directors, has pushed
Congress to ease the whole
grain and sodium standards
and eliminate the stipulation
that all children buying a full
lunch take a fruit or vegetable.
They are also seeking a higher
federal reimbursement rate.
Democrats, including Mi-
chelle Obama, would like to
leave the standards alone and
argue that they are working.
Beyond school lunch, child
nutrition programs expiring at
the end of the month include
the Agriculture Department’s
Women, Infants and Children
program for new and expect-
ing mothers and their chil-
dren, summer feeding pro-
grams and other government
institutional food aid.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan.,
chairman of the Senate Agri-
culture Committee, is nego-
tiating with the panel’s top
Democrat, Debbie Stabenow
of Michigan, to get a bipar-
tisan bill. He said this week
that changes to the sodium
standards are a priority.
The 2012 standards al-
ready lowered salt levels in
school meals, with even lower
sodium levels set to start in
two years. Some schools have
said they will have to take
many popular items off their
menus if the 2017 levels go
into effect.
Jessica Shelly, food ser-
vice director at Cincinnati’s
urban public schools, says the
new standards would mean
she couldn’t serve soy sauce
or hot sauce with some items,
condiments that have helped
her get kids to eat healthier
Dog stands guard for week
protecting trapped friend
The Associated Press
VASHON
ISLAND,
Wash. — A Washington state
animal shelter says a dog duti-
fully stood guard for a nearly
a week on Vashon Island to
protect another dog that had
fallen in a cistern.
Tillie, a setter mix, only left
Phoebe’s side to try to alert
people of her trapped friend.
Amy Carey of Vashon Is-
land Pet Protectors says the
two were found Tuesday after
they were reported missing
by their owners last week.
Vashon Island Pet Protectors
says volunteers looking for
the pair received a call about
a reddish dog being seen on
someone’s property a few
times before promptly head-
ing back into the ravine.
foods like greens.
“We need to take care of
that,” Roberts said of the up-
coming sodium rules. “You
are serving kids food that
some people would like to
mandate that they eat, but
they are simply not eating it.”
After a GOP bid to let
some schools have a one-year
exemption from the standards
failed last year, Congress
passed legislation that would
allow schools to temporarily
request waivers from some of
the whole grain requirements
and put off the 2017 sodium
standards until further study
proved those reductions are
needed. The Senate bill could
make those changes perma-
nent.
A setter mix named Tillie,
left, watches over Phoe-
be, a basset hound who
was trapped after falling
into the cistern nearly a
week earlier before being
rescued by searchers on
Vashon Island, Wash.,
Tuesday. A Washington
state animal shelter says
Tillie stood guard for a
nearly a week to watch
over Phoebe, only leaving
her side to alert people of
her trapped friend.
Carey says the Pet Pro-
tectors followed the tip and
found Tillie lying beside an
old cistern. Inside rescuers
found Phoebe, a basset hound,
on a pile of stones above the
water.
The dogs were cold and
hungry but otherwise un-
harmed.
“It’s really quite remark-
able,” Carey said.
Amy Carey
Vashon Island
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