Calendar

Scroll down the Calendar to see this listing of Fruit Related Events in the Pacific Northwest.

STFS events are listed in Underlined type.

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January 10th Tuesday -  Olympic Orchard Society Meeting ‘Organic Gardening Made Simple - How to improve our soil by organic methods and supplies’.   OOS Member Wanda Horst, Earth CPR Supplies, will give us information for improving our orchard and vegetable crops.

Location: Commissioner’s Chambers, Co. Court Bldg, 223 E. 4th St, Port Angeles

Time: 7pm

Contact:  couture222@msn.com

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January 12th, Thursday - Peninsula Fruit Club ‘Member Meeting’

Location: Bremerton Parks and Recreation Sheridan Comm Cntr, 680 Lebo Blvd & Clare Ave in East Bremerton

Time: 7:00 p.m.

Info: fhe@hurricane.net

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January 21st, Sat - Snohomish Fruit Club ”Backyard Blueberries’ with De Arbogast and Bill Davis. This is a newly forming chapter of the Western Cascade Fruit Society.

Location: Blue Ridge Fire Station #14, 18800 68th Ave. W., Lynnwood WA 98036

Time: 10 am to noon

More Info: js@olympus.net

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January 21st, Sat - Vashon Island Fruit Club ‘Planning an Orchard from the Ground Up’

Location: Land Trust Building

Time: 7:00pm

More Info: egmacrae@yahoo.com

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January 24th, Tuesday - WSU Extension Webinar ‘Current Research on Organic Production of Ginger Gold, Honeycrisp, Zestar!, Macoun, and Liberty Apples’ presented by Lorraine Berkett and Terence Bradshaw of the University of Vermont.

Time: 11:00am

More Info: http://www.extension.org/pages/61985/the-organica-project-webinar

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January 24th, Tuesday - Vashon Island Fruit Club ‘Quarterly Meeting - Scion Wood Collection and Care’ with Jean Williams

More Info: egmacrae@yahoo.com

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January 29th, Sun - Apple Id Program Meeting ‘Upcoming Changes and Plans for the Program’

Location: Victoria, BC @ Saanich Fair Grounds, 1528 Stellys Cross Rd, Saanichton BC Time: 1-3pm

Contact: lorineb@mindspring.com

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February 4th, Saturday - Apple Id Program Meeting ‘Upcoming Changes and Plans for the Program’

Location: Silverdale, WA @ Station 51 at 10955 Silverdale Wy NW, 98383

Time: 9:30-11:30am

Contact: lorineb@mindspring.com

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February 7th - South Sound Fruit Club meeting with Jeb Thurow “The Nutritional Value of Organically Grown Food versus Conventionally Grown Foods”. In addition he will give an introduction to collecting scion wood for grafting.

Location: Evergreen Organic Farmhouse, 2712 Lewis Road, Olympia

Time: 7pm

Contact: ritsonf@hotmail.com

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February 8th-12th - STFS booth at the NW Flower & Garden Show,

Sign Ups are Now to work in the STFS booth!  Get your admission free!

More info: ingelamw@gmail.com

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Feb 11th, Saturday - Seattle Tilth class ‘Prune Fruit Trees’Prune your fruit tree and gain bountiful and delicious harvests with the skills you will learn from this class.

Location: 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N., Seattle, WA 98103

Time: 10am -1pm

More Info: http://seattletilth.org/learn/classes-and-workshops

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Feb 11th, Saturday - Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Pruning (getting our work cut out for us)’

Location: Piper Orchard, Carkeek Park, Seattle

Time: 12-3pm

More Info: http://pipersorchard.org/ , donricks@hotmail.com

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February 12th, Sunday- Apple Id Program Meeting ‘Upcoming Changes and Plans for the Program’

Location: Portland, OR

Time: 1-3pm

Contact: lorineb@mindspring.com

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February 18th, Saturday - Apple Id Program Meeting ‘Upcoming Changes and Plans for the Program’

Location: Seattle, WA @ Green Lake Library, 7364 E. Green Lake Dr. N. 98115

Time: 1-3pm

Contact: lorineb@mindspring.com

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February 25th, Sat - Molbak’s Nursery ‘Fruit Trees to Plant Now’ with Greg Giuliani

Now is the best time to plant fruit trees to ensure an abundant harvest for years to come. Join Greg and learn how to select the right fruit tree and variety for the right location and the importance of cross-pollination with a special emphasis on fruit tree favorites: apple, pear, plum and cherry. He’ll also share tips on how to successfully plant, prune and stake young trees and basic first-year care. A short grafting demonstration will follow.

More Info: http://www.molbaks.com/

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February 25th, Sat - STFS table at PlantAmnesty’s Prune-A-Thon at Sky Nursery

Seattle Tree Fruit Society will have an informational display table set up.

More Info: http://www.plantamnesty.org/home/index.aspx

Contact: ingelamw@gmail.com

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March 3rd, Sat - Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation’s Winter Field Day. http://nwfruit.org/winter-field-day/

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March 6th - South Sound Fruit Club meeting ‘Grafting Techniques’ with Jerry Kehoe and Jeb Thurow. Learn to whip and tongue graft and bud graft. Trade or buy scion wood and rootstock

Location: Evergreen Organic Farmhouse, 2712 Lewis Road, Olympia

Time: 7pm

Contact: ritsonf@hotmail.com

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March 10th, Sat - Raintree Nursery’s Spring event in Onalaska, WA Info: 1-800-391-8892 http://www.raintreenursery.com/home.php

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March 17th, Sat - Peninsula Fruit Club’s ‘Spring Fruit Show’

Location: Silverdale Recreation Center, 9729 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA

Time: 11am to 4pm

More Info: fhe@hurricane.net

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March 17th, Sat - Home Orchard Society’s Fruit Propagation Fair

Location: Clackamus County Fairgrounds, Canby OR

More Info: http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/

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March 24th, Sat- Seattle Tree Fruit Society’s Spring Fruit Show

Time: 10:00am - 3:00pm

Location: Sky Nursery, 18528 Aurora Ave N, Shoreline, WA 98133 (206) 546-4851

More info: lorineb@mindspring.com

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March 24th, Sat- Olympic Orchard Society’s ‘Scion Exchange’

Location: Sequim, WA.

Time: 9:00-11:30

More Info: couture222@msn.com

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April 14th, Sat - STFS Meeting ‘Hands On Practice’ April Orchard workshops

Location: Sand Point Magnusson Park, in ‘The Brig’ just adjacent to the P-Patch orchard.

More Info: lorineb@mindspring.com

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April 14th, Sat - Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Weed and feed (fertilizer)’

Location: Piper Orchard, Carkeek Park, Seattle

Time: 12-3pm

More Info: http://pipersorchard.org/ , donricks@hotmail.com

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June 2nd, Sat - STFS meeting ‘Hands On Practice ‘Maggot Barriers/Espalier Pruning workshop’

Location: Sand Point Magnusson Park, in ‘The Brig’ just adjacent to the P-Patch orchard.

Member Meeting, More info: lorineb@mindspring.com

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June 9th, Sat - Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Bare Footies in the Park (protecting apples with foot sox)’

Location: Piper Orchard, Carkeek Park, Seattle

Time: 12-3pm

More Info: http://pipersorchard.org/ , donricks@hotmail.com

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July/Aug - STFS ‘Hands On Practice’ Summer Pruning Workshop in the orchard,

Location: Sand Point Magnusson Park, in ‘The Brig’ just adjacent to the P-Patch orchard.

More info: ingelamw@gmail.com

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Aug 11th, Sat - Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Sucker Punch (summer pruning)’

Location: Piper Orchard, Carkeek Park, Seattle

Time: 12-3pm

More Info: http://pipersorchard.org/ , donricks@hotmail.com

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September 15th, Sat - STFS Meeting at Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Fall Fruit Show’

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September 15th, Sat - Friends of Piper Orchard ‘Fall Fruit Show’

Fun for all ages! Festival has annual pie contest and tasty treats with cider prepared from Carkeek apples! Care of orchard is done by Seattle Fruit Tree Society, City Fruit, Carkeek volunteers & Park staff. All Great Folks! Be sure and attend this popular event.

Location: Learning Education Center room, Carkeek Park, Seattle

Time: 10-3pm

Contact: pipersorchard@gmail.com

More Info: http://pipersorchard.org/ , donricks@hotmail.com

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September 22nd Saturday -City People’s Garden Store class ‘Apple Identification’ with Lori Brakken. Look at apples and discuss the qualities that tell us when to pick, how to store it, identify what variety it is, and what to do for better fruit next year.  Visual identification of the fruit gives us a lot of information.

Location: 2939 E Madison, Seattle

Time: 11- 12 noon

Cost: Free

Contact: http://citypeoples.com/gardenstore/workshop.html#apple id

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September 30th, Sunday - Salt Spring Island’s 14th Annual ‘Apple Festival’

Location: Salt Spring Island, BC

Website: saltspringmarket.com/apples/; youtube.com/SSIAppleFestival;

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October 6th & 7th, Sat & Sun - Cloud Mountain Farm Center’s ‘Fall Fruit Festival’

Time: Oct 6th, Sat 10am-5pm ; Oct 7th, Sun 11am-4pm

Location: Cloud Mountain Farm Center, 6906 Goodwin Rd, Everson

More Info: http://www.cloudmountainfarm.com/

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October 13th, Sat - WWFRF’s ‘Sample the Apples and Pears’ event

More Info: http://nwfruit.org/

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October 20th & 21st Sat & Sun - Home Orchard Society’s All About Fruit Show

Location: Clackamus County Fairgrounds, Canby OR

More Info: http://www.homeorchardsociety.org/

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October 20th, Sat - Peninsula Fruit Club’s ‘Fall Fruit Show’

Location: Silverdale Recreation Center, 9729 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale, WA

Time: 11am to 4pm

More Info: fhe@hurricane.net

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October 27th, Sat - STFS Fall Fruit Show at Sky Nursery,

More Info: lorineb@mindspring.com

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October 28th, Sun - Venersborg Fruit show, http://venersborg.blogspot.com/

Location: Old Venersborg School House, 24309 NE. 209th St., Battle Ground, WA 98604

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November 12th, Tues - Vashon Island Fruit Club’s ‘Fall Fruit’ event.

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Dec 1st, Sat - STFS ‘Hands On Practice’ Winter Orchard workshops & STFS Member Meeting

‘What happened this year in Our Orchards’, Scion wood collection for spring fruit show.

Location: Sand Point Magnusson Park, in ‘The Brig’ just adjacent to the P-Patch orchard.