Hi everyone
        Was asked by a Rare Fruit member to post out this schedule of speakers to encourage folks to attend and find out what an amazing variety of fruits can be grow in our region
                                                                 thanks wes

The Festival of Fruit gets rolling at 9:00 AM Sat August 10 a Santa Barbara City College’s West Campus, the 800 block of Cliff Drive,
located just one block past the school’s main entrance. Registration starts at 8:30 AM, when information on speakers and
rooms will be given.

Subject: California Rare Fruit Growers Festival of Fruit 2002 Sat August 10

Subject: Festival Speakers Agenda

            SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
                 SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2002
                        FESTIVAL OF FRUIT
 
8:30    FE BLAND FORUM
               Check-in, pick-up registration materials
 
9:00    GARVIN THEATER
               BANANAS, VARIETIES AND THEIR
            CULTIVATION (Don and Katie Chafin)
 
10:15  GARVIN THEATER
                HAWAIIAN BANANAS, VARIETIES AND
            ETHNOBOTANY (C. Leng Chia)
 
            FE BLAND FORUM
               PITAHAYA, A PROMISING NEW CROP FOR
            SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Paul Thomson)
 
            DRAMA/MUSIC 101
                CREATING SUSTAINABLE AND BIODYNAMIC
            SOILS (Jerry Sortomme)
 
11:30    GARVIN THEATER
                    BANANA MICROPROPAGATION FOR THE
            HOBBYIST (Keith Benson)
 
            FE BLAND FORUM
                    SUBTROPICAL FRUITS FROM THE
            HIGHLANDS OF LAOS, BURMA, AND THE
            YUNNAN PROVINCE OF CHINA (Jeome Black)
 
            DRAMA/MUSIC 101
                    FAST AND FURIOUS FRUIT
            TRANSFORMATIONS, A COOKING
            DEMONSTRATION (Jozseph Schultz)
 
12:30    LUNCH
                    Raffles, tastings, vendors, administrative
            presentations
 
2:00      GARVIN THEATER
                    SAPODILLA AND GREEN SAPOTE
            (Noris Ledesma)
 
            FE BLAND FORUM
                    LESSER KNOWN TEMPERATE FRUITS
            OF TIBET, CHINA, JAPAN, AND THE
            SUB-HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS OF INDIA
            (Jerome Black)
 
             DRAMA/MUSIC 101
                    ECOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF GROWING
              BANANAS (Doug Richardson)
 
3:15        GARVIN THEATER
                    LYCHEE PRODUCTION WORLDWIDE
                AND EXPERIENCES IN CALIFORNIA
               (Ben Faber)
 
            FE BLAND FORUM
                    CHERIMOYA PRODUCTION IN
           SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (Scott Van Der Karr and
            Dario Grossberger)
 
4:30    GARVIN THEATER
                TROPICAL FRUIT PHOTOGRAPHY
            (Ian Maguire)
 
5:30    DINNER
 
 The California Rare Fruit Growers has announced that their 2002 annual
meeting, known as the "Festival of Fruit" and to be hosted this year by
 their Ventura/Santa Barbara chapter, will commence August 10th at 8:30
a.m. on the West Campus of Santa Barbara City College.

Thirteen speakers, hailing from as far away as Florida and Hawaii will
give talks and slide presentations on subtropical fruits that can be
grown in the U.S. -- including varieties of bananas and such fruits as
sapodilla, green sapote, lychee, cherimoya, and pitahaya.
Other topics will include cultivation, ethnobotany, soils, water,
tropical fruit photography, ecological aspects, how to create
sustainable and biodynamic soils and more. Festival visitors will not
 want to miss Chef's (cookbook author), "Fast and Furious Fruit
Transformations," truly amazing culinary performances by this
entertaining expert using fruits of all kinds.
 
An evening barbecue dinner will be open to all who wish to attend,
followed by a slide presentation on the many varieties of bananas by Don
 Chafin, owner of the "Going Bananas" Nursery in Homestead, Florida.
 
There will be many plants for sale during the Festival. On August 11,
Festival visitors are invited to take a tour of lush tropical and
subtropical fruit gardens in the Santa Barbara area, places where unique
 fruits are grown.
 
 For additional information about the Festival of Fruit, call or e-mail
 Norman Beard (in Goleta): 805-968-0989, beardtropics@earthlink.net.