June 2018
Greenwood Scion and Plant Exchange
Join us for our summertime greenwood exchange and fruit tasting! Spring and summer is the preferred time to graft and propagate many tropical/subtropical species, and to bud graft many of your deciduous fruit trees. Please bring propagable scionwood of any varieties you would like to share with the chapter, and feel free to also share any surplus of garden seedlings you'd like to unload from your potting bench. To add to the fun, we'll be tasting and awarding prizes to…
Find out more »July 2018
Festival of Fruit 2018
This year our sister Santa Clara Valley chapter is holding the CRFG's annual Festival of Fruit conference. Visit the the Festival of Fruit website for registration and all the details. The Santa Clara Valley Chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers invites you to join us for the Festival of Fruit and the 50th Anniversary of CRFG! July 26–30, 2018 Campbell Community Center 1 W. Campbell Ave. in Campbell, CA Saturday the 28th will be a full day of speakers, presentations,…
Find out more »September 2018
Tour of Pacific Berry Breeding & Member Potluck
Update: Photos and write-ups are available of our tour of Pacific Berry Breeding and tour of Ken's avocado homestead farm. This is a member event for the Monterey Bay chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers. Please contact us if you are not yet a member and would like to attend. Established in 2003, Pacific Berry Breeding (PBB) was created to develop proprietary raspberry cultivars for the fresh market on behalf of its owner-partners, Salinas-based Naturipe Berry Growers and Santiago,…
Find out more »October 2018
Apple Tasting at Wilder Ranch Harvest Festival
Join us for our legendary annual apple tasting, featuring 70+ varieties of rare and heirloom apples, from the mundane to the sublime, flesh crisp white, honey gold, and ruby pink, with flavors from applesauce to pineapple to anise to banana. Taste from many of the varieties whose cuttings will join the CRFG scion exchange circuit in the winter. $5 per individual, discounts for couples and families, benefiting the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers. This event is…
Find out more »December 2018
Winter Potluck 2018
At this convivial annual member's event, we meet with our fellow fruit growers, share good food, sample seasonal fruit harvests, and report on our years' garden successes and failures. Join MBCRFG for more info via our email group.
Find out more »January 2019
Scion Exchange 2019
The winter Scion Exchange is our major exchange of dormant propagable fruit material, including hundreds of varieties. Read more info on our scion exchange. Share the Facebook event for this exchange.
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February 2019
Pruning Workshop at Grange Orchard
Come learn and practice the fundamentals of winter fruit pruning, as we maintain the orchard at the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange. This is a hands-on workshop: bring your cleaned and sharpened pruning shears, loppers, and pruning saws.
Find out more »Fruit Grafting Workshop
Freddy Menge, a highly skilled and knowledgeable orchardist and local CRFG member, will lead a workshop where you will practice using a grafting knife, then proceed to graft a scion of your choice onto an apple or pear rootstock which you can take home. Various grafting techniques will be discussed, and other nuances of grafting. Attendees will leave with hands-on experience in cleft grafting. Volunteers from CRFG will help you hone your cutting skills, and review your grafted tree to…
Find out more »March 2019
Citrus Tasting and Member Meeting
Citrus Tasting 2019. Come explore the diversity of Citrus, and sample of dozens of deep-season varieties selected from Gene Lester's legendary Santa Cruz Co. grown collection of 250+ rare cultivars. Discuss techniques for success in Monterey Bay citrus growing, and burgeoning threats to citrus culture. Build community in fruit. Get to know your fellow local fruit growers, share your garden projects and experiments for the season, and help build and direct our thriving network of experienced and novice local fruit…
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