Pear Spectacular November 3!

Ready for a pear-fectly spectacular pear gathering? We’ve got something exciting for you. Join your fellow MBCRFG members on Sunday, November 3rd to hear C. Todd Kennedy speak about fall’s wonderful fruit – PEARS! To be followed by a Pear Tasting and one of our wonderful potlucks! (See registration link below.)

If you haven’t already heard about Mr. Kennedy, he has been a fruit adventurer extraordinaire for years, and is responsible for bringing hundreds of varieties of fruit to America and sharing them with the USDA repositories. He is reputed to have brought to America about half of the country’s stone fruit collection. And also those Italian figs with numbers (instead of names) that you see at the scion exchange? Yep, you guessed it, Mr. Kennedy brought those here too. He also established The Arboreum Company and grew and distributed fruit trees through that company, all while maintaining a busy career as an agricultural attorney working with farmers on labor and land use issues. He’s going to share with us his lifetime of knowledge about growing and selecting exquisite pear varieties.

Our members Freddy Menge, Lizzie Gray and Zea Sonnabend  will be bringing a selection of pears for our tasting. And YOU, our wonderful members, are asked to contribute a dish for our potluck. In addition to a dish (and serving tool), please make sure to bring your own plate, utensils, napkin, etc. to make it light lifting for us all. Please bring organic food whenever possible. We also welcome you to bring any fruit you’d like to share that you’re harvesting now. It’s so joyful to share the fruits of our labor with each other.

The afternoon’s fun will begin at 3 p.m. and continue until 6:00 (or until the food is all eaten!). Volunteers wishing to help with set-up can arrive at 2:30, or stay after 6:00 to tuck everything in and sweep up.

This is a members-only event. Has your membership expired? No worries, you can renew your membership here.

Register here for this free event.