Garden Club for Backyard Fruit Growers
Setup Time: 9:00 am to 12 noon.Advanced Grafting: 11:00-12:00 noon.For MidFEx members if you’ve had any problems with your past grafts or grafting techniques, then let us help. We will have some of our most skilled members on hand to assist you.Scion drop-off, Scion and …
Christy Wilhelmi is the driving force behind Gardenerd. Her obsession with gardening began in 1996 on the balcony of her Los Angeles, California apartment. She specializes in small-space, organic fruit and vegetable garden design, consulting, and classes. Between 70-80 percent of her family’s produce comes …
Amy Irish-Brown, retired Extension Commercial Tree Fruit IPM Educator, at Michigan State University reprises her participation in the Kurle lecture series to discuss research-based growing techniques and options for conventional and organic growers. With 32 years of experience advising growers, Amy provides important insights about …
Event Description: Just because you plant a fruit tree doesn't mean you get to eat the fruit when you have to contend with nature. Kevin learned the hard way that planning is a large part of adequately defending your orchard from four-legged pests.What you plant, …
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. Also on …
ATTENTION: This event has been rescheduled, the new date is Sunday September 24, 2023.Event Description: Join us for an Orchard Walk: Apples on Oak. Larry Peceniak, one of our Kurle Memorial Lecture speakers this year, has generously agreed to take us on a tour of …
Event Description: Do you have more apples than you know what to do with? Do some have blemishes or minor insect damage that would prevent you from eating them raw? Instead of tossing them into the compost heap bring then to the cider social and …
Session #1. Deirdre Birmingham, The Cider FarmDeirdre Birmingham is an owner and orchard manager of The Cider Farm, a certified organic cider orchard in Mineral Point Wisconsin growing cider apples for cider and brandy production.They started with hand-grafted varieties of French and English cider apples. …
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