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 …
Festival of Fruit 2018
Campbell Community Center 1 W. Campbell Ave., Campbell, CA, United StatesThis 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 …
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 …
Apple Tasting at Wilder Ranch Harvest Festival
Wilder Ranch State Park 1401 Coast Rd, Santa Cruz,, CA, United StatesJoin 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 …
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.
Scion Exchange 2019
Cabrillo College Horticultural Department Sanders Ave, Aptos, CA, United StatesThe 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.
MBCRFG Member Meeting
Meeting details announced via email.
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.
Fruit Grafting Workshop
Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange 1900 17th Ave, Santa Cruz, United StatesFreddy 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. …