Advanced Grafting Workshop Sunday March 26
Advanced Grafting Workshop
Garden Club for Backyard Fruit Growers
Member Event
Apple Cider Social
Cider Press at Al Cosnow’s House
Sunday November 3rd, 2024 10 am to 3 PM CST
**Note: Daylight Savings Time ends at 2 AM on Nov 3rd
Details HERE.
Pruning Workshop Saturday, March 11, 2023
Event Description: MidFEx pruning workshops provide a unique opportunity to hear varying pruning techniques and philosophies discussed and see them demonstrated. We will be pruning 3 year old fruit trees planted along a public edible trail. Many new fruit growers are perplexed about when and how to …
2023 Kurle Memorial Lecture
Presented as a 3-part Zoom series. These Zoom sessions can be accessed through Zoom.us or the Zoom app. Session #1. Ronald Perry Professor Emeritus Ronald Perry, Retired Chairman of the Horticulture Department of Michigan State University, returns to the Kurle Lectern to provide espalier growing …
2023 Annual Business Meeting
Event Description: What better way to chase away the winter chill than with a steaming bowl of homemade soup? Our annual business meeting will begin with our annual Soup Bowl Luncheon. Potluck hot lunch will be followed by election of officers, other club business, and …
Apple Cider Social Sunday October 30, 2022
Event Description: Cider pressing the old fashioned way with MidFEx’s own cider presses. Apples are available to purchase and press to take home your own handmade cider. Date: Sunday October 30, 2022 Time: 10am – until 5pm Location: See Grapevine or Members Only page Directions: …
Summer Picnic 2022
Event Description: The Summer Picnic is a time for MidFEx to come together for a fun afternoon. This year our host is an innovative urban farm that is educating the community about the environment, agriculture, biodiversity, permaculture, horticulture, gardening, and social justice and health issues. …
Orchard Tour Sunday July 10, 2022
Event Description: Jeff & Bernie have a small 1/3 acre yard that exhibits Jeff’s interest in fruit growing as well as their shared lifelong interest in gardening with ornamental plants and shrubs. Their yard is equally divided between shade and sun gardening with grass paths …
Orchard Tour Sunday May 1, 2022
Event Description: Ben’s and Madeleine’s orchard is just getting started, (about a dozen apple and pear trees on dwarf rootstock, with a few peaches and berry bushes for good measure), but in addition to the trees they also have a vegetable and flower garden and …
2022 Kurle Memorial Lecture
Presented as a 3-part Zoom series. These Zoom sessions can be accessed through Zoom.us or the Zoom app. The Kurle Memorial Lecture is offered annually in honor of Bob and Mary Kurle, conveners of the Midwest Fruit Explorers. Bob was known as one of the …