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! 

 

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!

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.

 

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! 

 

The meeting is free for CRFG members, and a donation ($3 - $5) is requested from non-members.

 

Contact: Larry Saltzman 805 451-4168

 

UPCOMING EVENTS CALENDAR

2013

 

January 2013

Saturday, January 12, 1:30 pm. San Luis Obispo CRFG Chapter meeting. Pruning at the CRFG/Cal Poly Orchard. Location, Crops Unit, Cal Poly.

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.