[Scpg] Sat Jan 19 Learn to Top Graft your fruit trees! Ed Hachfeld Mesa Harmon/Sat Feb 9 Learn Apple Tree Grafting!with Joe Sabol/Santa Barbara/Ventura chapter of CRFG (Calif. Rare Fruit Growers)

Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network lakinroe at silcom.com
Wed Jan 2 09:57:07 PST 2013


*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. /

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*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.

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