FRIDAY, 1/18: 1-5pm – Work-Party. Please bring cardboard for sheet mulching if you can.
SATURDAY, 1/19: 10:30-12:30 – Our local chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers has persuaded Ed Hachfeld to share his knowledge about top-grafting fruit trees – if you like fruit, you’ll love this! (Flyer attached)
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.