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Annual Summer Meeting of the Massachusetts Fruit Growers’ Association |
10:00 AM Welcome to Cider Hill Farm and the morning tour -- Glenn Cook, President, MFGA
10:15 AM Orchard Tour
- Blueberry and raspberry plantings
- Primocane blackberry patch
- Seedless grape planting
- Fruit-tree spacings and preferences
- New planting of cider apples
- Renewable energy program (solar, small turbines, and high efficiency wood boilers)
- Tomato greenhouses
- Day neutral strawberry high tunnel trial
- insect and disease control updates/IPM strategies for tree and small fruit (Jon Clements and Sonia Schloemann)
NOON Lunch by Goody Coles BBQ provided with the registration charge
1:15 PM Welcome to the afternoon tour -- Glenn Cook, President, MFGA
1:20 PM Facilities Tour
- Brand new hard cider venture
- CSA, food truck, and fledgling jam factory
- Labor profile
2:30 PM Adjourn
Registration for this meeting will be $25 for Mass. Fruit Growers’ Association members ($35 for non-members) per person and will include the tour, educational program, pesticide recertification credits, and lunch.
To ensure the availability of the meal, please pre-register by adding the appropriate number and type (member or non-member) registrations to your shopping cart and paying with a credit card.
We must receive pre-registrations by Friday, July 7 to assure availability of the lunch.
PDF version of this announcement -- print and register via US Mail.