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Page 10 Spilyay Tym oo, W arm Springs, Oregon May 14, 2014 OSU Extension New SNAP-Ed Coordinator/County Leader B eth A nn B eam er has jo in e d the W arm Springs O SU E xtension team as O utreach Coordinator and C ounty Lead. H er role w ill include 4-H , the N utrition Education Program, and Fam ilyand Com munity Health. B e a m e r h a s b e e n p a r t o f th e Jefferson County com munity since 1984. E d ucated as a nurse, h er career has in cluded L abor and D elivery services a t M ountain V iew H ospital, public health work at the Jefferson County Public Health D epartm ent including service delivery on the Reservation, and community health de velopment through the CHIP (Community H ealth Improvement Partnership) through St. Charles M adras hospital. Im passionate about creating the con O f the m any other opportunities ditions that m ake the healthy choice the Beam er chose W arm Springs as her place, easy choice for all, and reducing health dis o f em ployment because ofh er passion for parities. She w ill jo in the team full tim e the community. “O regon State University the first w eek o f June. has amazing resources to assist in outreach B eam er has h ad ties w ith Jefferson and education,” says Beamer. C ounty fo r years, also w orking closely, A portion o fh er position consists o f w ith the C onfederated T ribes o f W arm ,4-H arid B eam e r looks forw ard to sup Springs in passed projects. porting a growing interest in livestock ae- “I ’m passionate about creatin g conditions th at make the healthy choice the easy choice fo r all, and reducing health disparities, ” says Beamer tivities for youth. H er personal interest in horse related activities and other animals will add a com ponent o f 4-H that has been absent from the Extension Office in W arm Springs for som e years. B eam er is excited about the new,4- H position that will be coming soon, which w ill support th e com m unities’ interest in beading, sewing, and Culture & Heritages’ Cam p N aim um a (previously know n as 4- H Culture Camp). osu- Extension Warm Springs 541-553-3238 We’re online! find us at: http:// extensionorqgonstate.edu/ w arm springs/ Want to find something to do? L ook on o ur F acebook page... find seasonal opportunities, contests, classes, events and information. Search Faeeboolc: Warm Springs Extension FCH Spring planting in Simnasho Yvonne Babb O S U E xtension G arden Coordinator w ere able to feed our ow n people, w hich in and o f itself is an act sovereignty. H ow ever, as w e have m oved aw ay from' food systems, our com munities have been less able to do this. A ll across toe w orld, there is a movement, toe food sovereignty move ment, w hich aims to bring back our Indig So-lan-a-cee-ae. Tom atoes and peppers are “heavy feeders” that require m ore n u trients. The following year, lighter feeders like onions and carrots will follow without P u lask i’s ram m ed the earth, ropes adding additional soil nutrients. Theirroots flew th rough the air, ham m ers pounded p enetrate m ore deeply, into to e soil and and m any hands m ightily w orked toe soil p ic k u p to e n u trients th at h ad leached before gently placing their fragile starts and seed s in th e g ro u n d . ■ G a rd e n in g in enous food system s and to em pow er and dow nward. In three years, this sam e bed Sim nasho o,n M ay 3Jd, was, a lesson in, build communities, Food will bring u s to will be sown w ith toe plant that can fix ni trogen fro m th e atm osphere and convert grow ing plants and grow ing community. gether.” The sun b roke through the clouds it to a form usable b y plants. These s'piT The pictures say it a ll... The gray skies and w est w inds w ere, and Cecelia Collins and her daughters a r - , builders are beans, peas or cover crops sweeping through high desert community rived to share in toe gardening adventure. like clover or vetch. You can see their wart w hen I arrived w ith m y husband G eoff. We began preparing toe soil and repairing like nodules on th eir roots w h ere to e n i We found toe garden just w est o f toe com toe end w hen M ike, C ecelia’s husband, trogen is fixed. Last w eek in m y O SU Class on Gar munity church. The garden tunnel erected sh o w ed u p to help. W e began to reposi tion toe rebar and realign the door between den Planning, I taught all toe above con m y short gardening lessons on- soil pH , cepts: plant selection, grouping b y fam i grouping plants and planning a crop rota lies and rotations that began w ith heavy tion. Then M ike took over repairing the feeders, followed with medium-light feed doorw ays and restringing toe tunnel so I ers and ended w ith soil builders prio r to o n a co o l sp rin g day-—. O n seco n d thought: i f yo u add food and good folks could help plant. Meanwhile G epffuntied repeating the process. There is nothing m ore rew arding to to th a t g ardening activity th an yo u are all the old string and to o k photos. M att Vaeto, toe neighbor soon ca m eo v er and m e than w orking w ith plants and toe soil growing community too! asked enough questions to team him self a tool and enough vegie starts to plant. M att said his mother, Vio Vaeto w as instrumten- tal in starting toe garden project years ear lier; she had attended our garden planning session earlier in toe w eek.. M att is now com toitted to help w ater the garden'and; last y ear h ad collapsed from toe heavy snow and strong w inds this p ast winter. Sure enough, toe tunnel ’s clear plastic side w alls w ere flapping wildly. T he w estern door frame w as broken and toe tunnel had lifted o ff toe rebar like a sailboat ready to leave toe dock. The entire w est side w as leaning inward. It,didn’t stop A lyssa M acy, a tribal resid en t and gardening enthusiast w ho h elp ed m e coordinate a d ay to w ork in toe garden. A lyssa had already unloaded a car full o f tools, w eeded toe exterior beds and plu g g ed in her crock pots o f chicken w ings b y to e tim e I arrived on this typ i cally dynam ic spring Saturday. W e un- loaded m y gardening supplies and headed to h er house for 6 inch w ooden poles to prop up th e end doors and create a m ore secure string system to control toe side w alls. A ly ssa shared, “A t one tim e, we- see it prosper. Cecelia and heryO ungest daughters learned how far to space toe tom atoes and then transplanted them and peppers into th eir designated grow ing b ed that w as housing all toe members o f toe Nightshade family, Solanaceae, w hich is pronounced Join Y vonne B abb, O SU G arden C oordinator and E dm ond Francis for a planting day a t toe W arm S prings C om m unity G arden on Saturday, M ay 31 from 9:3 0 -3 :3 0 p m ; it’s b y toe Administration Building on Veteran’s Lane. Everyone is welcome! This is an opportunity to register for a garden plo t as w ell as to h elp plant to e garden. M an y hands w ill m ake light w ork, fun memories and food for the community. I will dem onstrate how to group your plants, transplant y o u r starts and p lan t your seeds. C all O SU -E xtension to register 541-553-3238
