2026 Gardeners

2026 Garden leadership team

2025 High Desert Garden Tour

We're excited to be part of the 2025 High Desert Garden Tour, put on by the OSU Extension Service and Central Oregon OSU Master Gardeners™.

Posters and ads will be out soon and ticket books will be available online by June 27^th. See https://extension.oregonstate.edu/deschutes/events/2025-high-desert-garden-tour.   Cost is $15 per ticket.  Ticket books in hard copy will be available at the OSU Extension office in Redmond.  

Julie's garden close, Oct 12

We have been gathering here in many forms for the past six months. Sometimes in a solitary capacity and sometimes in a communal capacity. We started with words of gratitude that were fed to our worms to carry as a message into the soil. Take a moment and see if you can recall the gratitude you offered in the spring? If you recall and want to share please take a moment now to speak the gratitude to all of us gathered on our closing day in the garden.

A love letter to our dear garden-a prayer-a blessing

From the moment our bare hands and feet touched your spring warm soil you inspired our senses.

You drank from our hands

You allowed our tender ministrations as we turned, raked and hoed your beds

You transformed tiny seeds into vibrant nourishment

All season long you offered simple, succulent bounty and revealed mysteries that lifted our spirits

So many gifts you've exchanged in our presence.

When we are here with you, you impart the message "we are one"

As we enter yet another season, we honor your need for silent regeneration.

Rest well our dear garden

Ashay, Ahoe, Amen

Garlic harvest

We harvested these 2 beds of soft neck garlic July 13. The one bed of hard neck garlic (left) will wait a week. We set aside the biggest to replant in the fall. We then seed these beds for a fall harvest of carrots, beets and kale.

Quick harvest during wildfire smoke

Storage onions