Garden Club for Backyard Fruit Growers
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 …
This event is a followup summer pruning session on 25 young fruit trees planted as an edible trail in 2019. They were pruned is last March, with the club's help. Further summer pruning will be performed at this event on Saturday, August 5th at 10am. …
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 …
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Event Description: The Fall Harvest Festival at the Chicago Botanic Gardens is our largest public event, fund raiser, and membership drive all rolled into one. It’s a fun exciting experience and a great opportunity to socialize and network with MidFExers while learning the virtues 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 …
North American Fruit Explorers will hold their annual meeting via Zoom on November 9-11, 2023. Free for NAFEX members. Check their website for the latest details: https://nafex.org/
The Club's annual potluck business meeting day is Sunday, January 14, 2024. 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 …
Session #1. Deirdre Birmingham, The Cider Farm Deirdre 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 …