Dear Nafex members,
North Olympic Fruit Club is hosting its 2006 Fall
Fruit Show on Saturday, October 21st at the Jefferson County
Fairgrounds in Port Townsend, WA,
from 10 am to 4 pm. Besides tables filled with cultivars of
locally grown apples, pears, nuts, grapes and hardy kiwis, visitors enjoy the
tasting tables.
Dr. Robert Norton, WSU Professor Emeritus of Horticulture, will be on hand to help identify unknown apples. Bring 5 representative apples from your tree. Don’t wash or polish them. Place the apples in a paper bag and keep the bag in the refrigerator until the show. Bring the apples and perhaps a few leaves from the tree to Dr. Norton’s booth.
Here’s the seminar schedule:
10:15 AM - “Fruit Tree Care and Proper
Pruning” with Paul Gautschi. Paul is a Master Arborist and lives in
Gardiner. You’ll find him at
work on his 5-acre teaching orchard where he grows all manner of beautiful
fruit. His mulching concepts are
cutting edge and conserve valuable resources.
11:30 AM - “Soil Microbes and Compost
Tea” with Leon Hussey, owner of ‘Keep It Simple’ compost tea
brewers in Seattle. Leon is Vice President of the Compost
Tea Association, Vice President of the Redmond Organization for Shared
Environments and on the Regional Review Committee for compost guidelines. Leon won the King County Green Globe
Award.
1 PM - “How to Espalier Fruit
Trees” with Kristan Johnson.
Kristan is a well-known landscaper living in Port Ludlow. He’s president of Western
Washington Fruit Research Foundation. The Foundation promotes fruit research
funding, educational programs and publications leading to improved cultivars
for Western
Washington.
2:30 PM - “Growing Organic
Greenhouse Fruit” with Tom Wood, owner of Raspberry Rich Farms in Centralia. Tom grows organic fruits in pots all
year long in his greenhouses. His berries are the finest and best tasting. Tom delivers fruit year ‘round, having carved a niche in Olympia’s markets. He spent the last 20 years breeding
plants. He’ll describe how he achieves two crops of fruit per
year.
There’ll
be grafting demonstrations, one-of-a-kind fruit trees available plus a number
of selected hybrid grape plants, fresh-pressed cider and apples, freshly baked
pies and cakes, local honey, orchard mason bee blocks, cider, wine and root
beer making supplies and much, much more.
Admission is $3 per person or $5 per family. There’s plenty of free
parking. The Fairgrounds is
wheelchair accessible. .
North Olympic Fruit Club is a chapter of Western
Cascade Fruit Society.
http://www.jeffcofairgrounds.com/directions.htm
Judi