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- From: "Michael Phillips" <michael@herbsandapples.com>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire
- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 14:02:40 -0400
Hi All ,
The NAFEX
Conference is just around the corner, coming up August 21-23 centered out of
Concord, New Hampshire. Busy fruit growers don't have all that much time for
publicity, but since we have some pretty cool speakers scheduled and lots of
great orchard events, I was hoping to share the schedule for Friday morning
talks (four sessions of concurrent talks) .
Remember, you can find registration info at http://www.nafex.org/2003REGISTRATIONFORM.htm It's going to be great getting together
with so many of the gang!
NEWER APPLE AND PEAR
ROOTSTOCKS
New apple and pear rootstocks are being introduced almost as rapidly
as new fruiting varieties. Some are
designed to meet specific disease problems, some for improved production, some
for greater hardiness. Dr. Cummins
will discuss new introductions and their potentials for
NAFEXers.
STONE FRUIT ROOTSTOCKS
No longer are our choices simple—mazzard vs. mahaleb, myro vs.
marianna—new dwarfing rootstocks are being introduced . . . and some might
actually work! Dr. Cummins will
point out some of the possible pitfalls.
Jim Cummins was a fifth generation apple grower in
Southern Illinois until a devastating hailstorm destroyed his orchard and drove
him back to graduate school. Jim
served as a Cornell professor for 30 years, working primarily with breeding and
evaluating rootstocks and also with fruit tree viruses. Cornell introduced Novole, Geneva 65,
G.30, G.16, and most recently G.11 from his breeding program. Introduction of
G.3041 and G.5935 are expected soon.
In retirement, Jim works with his youngest son, Steve, in their small
fruit tree nursery in New York.
history
of apples in New England
Who was Malinda? Did Ben
Davis really live in Maine? How did Old Orchard Beach get that name? Why was the Massachusetts Horticultural
Society so important? John Bunker will answer these and many more
questions!
STORING AND PROCESSING THE FRUIT
HARVEST
A Maine homesteader will share the secrets of thirty years of fruit
harvesting. Tips on what to do with
your fruit: the perfect root cellar, preserving cider in soda bottles, fruit
leather, grape juice without a processor, canning blueberries, freezing
strawberries and more.
John Bunker moved to Maine in 1968 and has lived in
Palermo on Super Chilly Farm for the past 31 years. He works for FEDCO, the co-op seed and
nursery company in Clinton where he coordinates nursery sales. His passion is tracking down heirloom
fruit varieties and studying agricultural history. From September to November he
is usually off fruit exploring throughout New England, searching old farms and
abandoned orchards. He established
the Maine Heirloom Apple Orchard at the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners
Association fair grounds in Unity.
NH ORIGIN OF THE HIGHBUSH
BLUEBERRY
Frederick Vernon Coville's arrived
in Greenfield, NH with his family as summer residents in 1905. His interest was
attracted to the subject of blueberry culture. The first hybrid blueberries were
introduced in 1920—Pioneer, Katherine and Cabot—all with Brooks as an ancestor,
a plant he selected from a Greenfield pasture near his house in the summer of
1908. Was it difficult? It only required discovering that blueberries required
an acid soil, and then selecting the right parents to cross to produce a billion
dollar industry at a time when everyone else was content to pick the wild
ones.
Roger Swain is recognized by millions as the
longtime host of PBS-TV¹s The Victory Garden. His new weekly show,
People, Places & Plants (with co-host Paul Tukey) celebrates New
England gardens and gardeners. Since 1978 readers have been enjoying Roger¹s
essays and articles in Horticulture magazine, as well as his five books:
Earthly Pleasures, Field Days, The
Practical Gardener, Saving Graces, and Groundwork. When he is not editing
Horticulture magazine, filming the TV series, or meeting with gardeners
across the country, Roger can be found at work in the orchard and gardens of his
farm in southern New Hampshire.
Apples: A Plea for Intolerance
Let’s air some of the current struggles with language definitions
like heirloom, antique and cider. This humorous—yet sometimes
cynical and sometimes arrogant—discourse about fruit growers and those that
forever aspire to be fruit growers will have us all thinking. Tom promises to
stomp the tops of some clean-bottomed sneakers before he’s
through!
Tom Burford is an orchard and nursery consultant from
Virginia, specializing in restoration, re-creation and design at historic sites
and private estates. He is the author of Apples: A Catalog
of International Varieties, a great reference work on commercial and
heirloom apple varieties. His most recent handbook is the Fruit Grafters Handbook, a
comprehensive work on grafting fruit trees, published with Ed Fackler as
co-author. Tom conducts major apple tastings and seminars each year at Old
Sturbridge Village in Massachusetts and at Jefferson’s Monticello in
Virginia.
uncommon
fruits
Meet
some fruits, such as shipova, medlar, Nanking cherry, and lingonberry, that are
not well-known, but have delectable flavors and are easy to grow and cold-hardy
in the northeast. In contrast to many common fruits, the fruits covered by Lee
Reich are generally free of pest problems, so can be grown without spraying.
Many require no more than a little, or no, pruning. And if that’s not enough:
some of the fruits covered—hardy kiwifruit, juneberry, and cornelian cherry, for
example—are borne on ornamental plants, perfect for “edible
landscaping.”
espalier
Pruning
An espalier makes a decorative and edible covering for a
fence or a wall. Apples and pears are the plants that first come to mind, and
numerous European pruning systems have been devised for clothing the
decoratively arranged branches of these plants tightly with fruit. In this
country, apple and pear often do not respond as expected, and Lee Reich suggests
red currant as an alternative. Besides being extremely easy and reliable to
espalier, the jewel-like fruits themselves are very ornamental and dangle
decoratively for weeks—unless you eat
them.
Lee Reich is a garden writer, consultant, and avid
gardener who has worked in soil and plant research for the USDA and Cornell
University. His books include UNCOMMON FRUITS WORTHY OF ATTENTION, A NORTHEAST
GARDENER’S YEAR, GROWING FRUIT IN YOUR BACKYARD, THE PRUNING BOOK, and WEEDLESS
GARDENING. Articles by him appear regularly in such publications as Fine
Gardening, Horticulture, and the New York Times, and his
gardening column for Associated Press appears weekly in newspapers across the
country.
holistic
disease management of fruit trees
Fungal diseases
can wreak havoc in the orchard. Michael will take a holistic look at how to keep
apple scab from developing with sanitation and minimal sulfur sprays. Much the same type of thinking applies to cedar
apple rust and black rot. Properly made
compost teas reveal an entirely new way of thinking. And yet the story does not
end there: mycorrhizal root interaction is a fungal event we definitely want to
encourage on fruiting ground.
medicinal uses of fruits and fruiting
plants
Nutrient rich food is medicine in the
most positive sense. Modern research reveals just why an organic apple a day holds so much
healing potent. Michael will discuss the antioxidant qualities of berries, the
making of real cider vinegar and its use as an acetous menstruum for
mineral-rich herbs, the tonifying powers of hawthorn, and the healing
enchantment of elder.
Michael Phillips stewards Lost Nation Orchard, part of a diversified mountain farm
in northern New Hampshire. The Phillips family grows a wide array of medicinal
herbs as well. Chelsea Green published Michael’s book, THE APPLE GROWER: A
Guide for the Organic Orchardist. Michael teamed up more recently with wife
Nancy to write The Village
Herbalist. Visit us on the web at
www.HerbsAndApples.com.
Exploring Armenia for Fruit and Nut
Germplasm
Joseph Postman spent three weeks last September on a
germplasm-collecting trip to Armenia as part of his work for the USDA/ARS
National Clonal Germplasm Repository in Corvallis, Oregon. His research
specialties include virus testing and virus
elimination.
myrobalan plum update
Jerry Lehman is a long-time NAFEX member from
Indiana.
Our First
Line of Defense Against Invading Plant Pathogens
This
presentation will include an overview of the USDA Plant Quarantine program with
special emphasis on fruit imports and quarantine testing
programs.
Ray Mock received a B.S. in Horticulture from the
University of Maryland with post-graduate work in Plant Pathology, and has
worked with USDA on all aspects of import and quarantine of prohibited plant
species since 1976. He has
specialized in the Stone Fruit quarantine program from 1992 – present, most
recently as the scientist in charge of imports and quarantine for Stone Fruits,
Small Fruits, and forage and turf grasses.
Breeding grapes for cold climates
Jerry Rodman has been growing grapes in Maine for 17
years. He has trialed hundreds of selections, some are well known grapes, others
are unnamed varieties from professional and amateur breeders. Jerry himself is
an amateur breeder.
Strawberry Plasticulture for the Northern
Grower
Bill
will discuss fall plug culture for strawberry in northern New England and the
use of early summer planted dormant crowns in strawberry plasticulture.
Strawberry production in high tunnels will also be
discussed.
Bill Lord, an Extension Professor and Fruit Specialist at the
University of New Hampshire, has been helping growers in this state with his
horticultural insights and tall tales for 31
years.
growing nuts in the North
Walnuts, hazels/ filberts, butternuts,
buartnuts, pine nuts, chestnuts, and just plain
nuts!
Bill MacKentley is a tree guy through and through. His
family’s St. Lawrence Nurseries in Potsdam, New York specializes in organically
grown fruit and nut trees for northern growing zones. Bill apprenticed with Fred
Ashworth, a plant breeder many older NAFEX members recall with great
respect.
Michael Phillips
Lost Nation
Orchard
RFD
1 Box 275
Groveton, NH 03582
Groveton, NH 03582
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[NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire,
Michael Phillips, 07/27/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire,
Dr. Ethan Natelson, 07/27/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire, mark wessel, 07/27/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire,
Charles Paradise, 07/29/2003
- Re: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire, Richard J. Ossolinski, 07/29/2003
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Re: [NAFEX] August Conference in New Hampshire,
Dr. Ethan Natelson, 07/27/2003
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