[Sdpg] California Rare Fruit Growers Festival of Fruit 2002 Sat August 10 Festival Speakers Agenda

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

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 at earthlink.net.




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