Midwest Fruit Explorers

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: …

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. …

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 …

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 …

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 …