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. …
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. Update: Photos of 62 varieties of citrus that we tasted …
Meeting: Citrus/Avocado Propagation Demo & Chapter Business
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.
Meeting: Propagation Party
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.