Santa
Barbara/Ventura chapter of CRFG (Calif. Rare Fruit
Growers)
UPCOMING
EVENTS Jan 2013
California Rare Fruit Growers promotes
the environmentally-sound culture of any and all edible plants in the
home landscape by encouraging and helping to facilitate public and
scientific research, education and preservation of plants worldwide
that have edible seeds, fruit, leaves, stems or roots. The CRFG mission
is to share knowledge acquired from these activities with home growers
in particular and with anyone else having an interest in edible plant
cultivation.
Saturday,
January 19, 10:30
am - 12:30 pm
Learn
to Top Graft Your Fruit Trees!
with
Ed Hachfeld
at
Mesa
Harmony
Garden
Attend
a Top Grafting class with Ed Hachfeld at Mesa
Harmony
Garden,
an exciting new Food
Forest
in Santa
Barbara
that is growing fruit for the Food Bank. (www.mesaharmonygarden.org)
Learn how to graft multiple varieties of fruit onto an existing tree. You can turn apple, pear or
stone fruit trees into a fruit cocktail tree by grafting different
varieties onto it. By grafting onto an existing tree, the grafted wood
will often produce fruit within a year.
Where:
Mesa
Harmony
Garden,
1740
Cliff Drive,
Santa
Barbara,
CA
93109.
It's near the corner of Meigs and Cliff, but enter from the Dolores
entrance. Dolores crosses Meigs and is one block northeast of Cliff.
Refreshments
afterwards: Bring fruit and baked goods to share at our fruit
tasting, plus plants for our plant sale!
Cost:
The meeting is free for CRFG members, and a donation
($3 - $5) is requested from non-members.
Contact: Larry
Saltzman 805 451-4168
Saturday,
February 9th, 10:30
am - 12:30 pm
Learn
Apple Tree Grafting!
(plus
Scion Exchange)
with
Joe Sabol
at
Beard Tropics Nursery
Cal
Poly Professor Emeritus Joe Sabol will teach a fun class with hands-on
experience of apple tree grafting. You will be able to leave with your
own grafted apple tree! Plus you will be able to tour Norm Beard's
amazing tropical paradise of fruit trees at his 5 acre nursery in Goleta.
And we will also do a scion exchange (bring cuttings from your healthy,
productive fruit trees to exchange with other fruit growers).
Where:
200
Ellwood Ridge Road,
Goleta,
CA
93117.
101 Northbound from Santa
Barbara,
take Winchester
Canyon
exit. Right on Cathedral Oaks Road, then first left on Ellwood
Canyon Road,
then right uphill on Ellwood
Ridge Rd
to first place on right. 101 Southbound from Buellton: Take Hollister
offramp, go left back over freeway, right on Calle Real, take first
left on Cathedral Oaks Road, then follow directions above from
Winchester Canyon Road.
Refreshments
afterwards: Bring fruit and baked goods to share at our fruit
tasting, plus plants for our plant sale!
Cost:
The meeting/class is free for CRFG members, and a donation ($3 - $5) is
requested from non-members. There may be a charge of $2 for rootstock
for the apple tree you will graft - and you'll get to take it home!
Contact: Larry
Saltzman 805 451-4168
UPCOMING
EVENTS CALENDAR
2013
January 2013
Saturday, January 19, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. Santa Barbara/Ventura CRFG
Meeting. Top Grafting Demo with Ed Hachfeld. Location: Mesa Harmony Garden (see above).
Sunday, January 27, 11 am - 3 pm. 5th Annual Community Seed Swap, Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Public Library
downtown.
February 2013
Saturday, February 9, 10:30 am - 12:30 pm. Santa
Barbara/Ventura CRFG meeting. Grafting
class with Joe Sabol. Location: Norm Beard's nursery, Beardtropics, 200 Ellwood Ridge Rd., Goleta, CA 93117. (see above)
Saturday, February 16, 1:30 pm. San Luis Obispo CRFG Meeting. Scion Exchange and
grafting class. Location: Cal
Poly Crops Unit.