California Rare Fruit Growers Santa Barbara Chapter presents:

 

Join us May 19th from 10 AM until 12:00 pm for our next chapter event. Hear Tom Spellman of Dave Wilson Nursery speak on home orchard practices. Dave Wilson Nursery is a large wholesale nursery that grows one of the best selections of fruit trees for retail nurseries and commercial orchards.  Tom Spellman is their resident expert on growing fruit in the Southwest, including coastal Southern California.  This should be one of our best events of the year.

 

There will also be a special ceremony honoring the retired chair of our chapter Norm Beard for his decades of service to our chapter. 

 

The event will be held at Norm's nursery:

 

 

101 North Bound from Santa Barbara, right off freeway on Winchester Canyon Road, go right on Cathedral Oaks Road, take first left on Ellwood Canyon Road, then right uphill on Ellwood Ridge Road to first place on right.
 
101 South Bound from Buelton, take Hollister Ave, off ramp, go left back over freeway, make a right on Calle Real, take first left on Cathedral Oaks Road, then follow directions above from Winchester Canyon Road.

Coming soon:

 

June: How to grow blueberries.  We will visit a local blueberry farm near the Gaviota coast and learn how to grow acid loving blueberries in our alkaline soil. You will also be able to pick your own blueberries at a very reasonable price.

 

July: Citrus Greening Disease. A Santa Barbara County entemologist will speak on this destructive disease which has now shown up for the first time in Santa Barbara.