[Ccpg] Peacotums and CherryPlums! -Fruit Tasting Event

[L.Santoyo Designs]

How Sweet It Is: California Rare Fruit Growers To Hold Tasting at Cal 
Poly Aug 12

SAN LUIS OBISPO -- Cal Poly's College of Agriculture, the California 
Rare Fruit Growers organization and the Dave Wilson Nursery are 
sponsoring a fruit tasting at 1 p.m. Saturday, August 12, at the Cal 
Poly Crops Unit.

The public is invited to the free annual event, which will feature 
between 30 and 35 different fresh fruits to include peaches, 
nectarines, plums, Pluots, Asian Pears and yes,  Peacotums (peach x 
plum x apricot) and the Cherry x Plums(Prunus avium x Prunus 
cerasifera). These are the latest from Zaiger Hybrids, they have 
great texture and wonderful unique flavor.

Guest experts Tom Spellman and Ed Laivo of Dave Wilson Nursery in 
Hickman will be on hand to answer questions, and everyone attending 
will have the chance to taste all of the fresh fruit. The Dave Wilson 
Nursery, a major national provider of backyard and commercial fruit 
trees, will provide all the fruit.   No fruit will be for sale at 
this special event.

Fruit Science students and members of the California Rare Fruit 
Growers will be available to answer questions, and assist with the 
slicing and distribution of the fresh fruit.

The Crops Unit is on Highland Drive at Mount Bishop Road, just west 
of the railroad tracks.

For more information, call Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Joe Sabol at 
(805) 544-1056 or e-mail him at jsabol at calpoly.edu.
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