[Scpg] MHG this weekend...

[Hugh Kelly]

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.

 

 

 

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