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. Update: Photos of 62 varieties of citrus that we tasted …

Citrus and avocado grafting/propagation demos, followed by chapter organizing meeting. This is a member event; see mailing list for full details, or contact us.

Propagate rare fruit plants for our chapter's Summer exchange, bring your June harvests to our harvest table display, and discuss seasonal orchard concerns in the Grange demo orchard. This is a member event--full details on will be available on our mailing list, or contact us.

Orchard Tour: Most folks are astounded to see what new farmers Nadine and Jason have established in their first six years at Birdsong Orchards, with 5+ acres of organic mixed fruit orchards and cutting flowers--including many dozens of varieties of pomes, stonefruit, figs, citrus, persimmons, berries, and more. And goats and llamas and dogs and …

The Foothill Chapter of California Rare Fruit Growers invites you to join us for the Festival of Fruit for 2019! Do you grow fruit? Do you enjoy eating fruit? The California Rare Fruit Growers Festival of Fruit 2019 is a 3-day celebration of fruit with fruit-growing talks, workshops, garden and nursery tours, fruit and plant …

Fig and grape tasting at Wolfskill Experimental Orchards. Wolfskill is a UCD/UCANR and USDA-ARS research station/germplasm respository responsible for much important fruit research and many cultivar releases. This is a great opportunity to see an important site for California fruit culture, and to taste a broad variety of expertly grown figs and grapes. Further details …

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 …

Hosted by National Clonal Germplasm Repository - Tree Fruit & Nut Crops & Grapes: UC Davis at Wolfskill Experimental Orchard in Winters, California. Opening remarks from lead researcher John Preece, and field specialists Jeff Moersfelder (pomegranates) and Jenny Smith (persimmons) on the varieties offered to taste. This event begins promptly, so don’t be late! Open …

A fun, fruitful year in review for the community. Potluck, harvest table, garden reportbacks and slideshow, chapter business and elections. Join MBCRFG for more info on mailing list.

Our annual Scion Exchange in January is the Santa Cruz and Monterey Bay area’s major exchange of dormant propagable fruit material. At this event, run by the Monterey Bay Chapter of the California Rare Fruit Growers, we distribute scionwood of hundreds of varieties apple, pear, plum, peach, apricot, and other species. We also typically have …