PENDLETON â Blue Mountain Community College has been awarded a Grow Your Own (GYO) grant to develop a Teacher Pathway Partnership for future LatinX teachers.
The objective of the GYO project is to work toward closing the demographic divide between students and teachers. The GYO Teacher Pathway focuses on retaining community members from diverse populations who are interested in becoming teachers and to work in their local community. Communities partnering with the grant include Stanfield, Boardman and Milton-Freewater.
BMCC will utilize the grant money to conduct a three-day virtual workshop on May 14-16, called the 2-Teach Institute. BMCC has partnered with local high schools to recruit students for this pathway. Participants will be introduced to the field of education, as well as foster teaching practices in alignment with the Oregon Department of Educationâs Equity Initiatives.
In addition to my years in radio, I spent a good portion of my adult life working in restaurants. As I ve mentioned before, I even owned a couple. So I ve had the opportunity to try every imaginable food I could get my taste buds onto. Raw fish, veal brains, sweet breads (organ/glandular meats), and of course. mushrooms.
Most folks associate shrooms with plain old white button mushrooms that you see in the grocery store, which is not even the tip of the shroom-berg. In my opinion, there s a criminal lack in variety of mushrooms in the average veggie section. Sure, you see buttons, criminis, portabellos, maybe some oyster mushrooms and shiitakes.
Darwin’s barberry produces edible berries that are packed with vitamin C
Credit: Ann Pickford
I bought a myrtle (
Myrtus communis) from the Hampshire-based nursery, Hortus Loci, when I was researching my book, Grow Your Own Botanicals. Now is an excellent time to order bare root trees online as you have a far bigger choice than container-grown plants and they’ll grow away faster.
As I’m in Bristol, I was pleased that I could place my order on the website, despite the fact that it turns out I’m hopeless at buying things online: whether it’s a shrub or tin of coconut milk, more often than I’d care to admit, I end up with the wrong size of whatever it is I’ve ordered.