Hi friends,
Here is a quick update and more details on our 2016 Spring Grafting Show happening this weekend:
Friday, 3.18.2016 Noon – 4pm & Saturday, 3.19.2016 10am – 3pm
Highline College, 2400 S 240th St, Des Moines, WA 98198
Demonstrations and Presentations on Friday. Hands-On Grafting workshops, Root Stock and Scion Wood sales, Lectures, Tool Sharpening and Community Out-Reach Booths on Saturday.
Free Admission, Open to the Public, no preregistration required. Parking, map and directions at:
https://www.highline.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Highline-College-Campus-Maps.pdf?e49371.
Sponsored by Highline’s Urban Agriculture program and Permaculture club.
Seminar Agenda:
Friday (March 18):
Building 14 (Room 104)
12:15-1:00 – Introduction to Growing Fruit
1:00-1:45 – Soil 101 – The Basics
1:45-2:30 – Orchard Mason Bees
Greenhouse:
2:30- 4:00 – Fruit Tree Grafting
Saturday (March 19):
(All Saturday lectures will last from 45 minutes to 75 minutes, depending on the number of audience questions)
Building 3 (Classroom 102)
10:45 – Beyond Jam
12:00 – Raising Kiwis in the Pacific Northwest
1:15 – Growing Figs
Building 14 (Classroom 105)
10:30 – Three Bees
12:00 – Making Perry Modern
1:30 – Creating a Food Forest
Booths:
Non-profit organization outreach booths, vendor tables, informational displays on Sat (3/19) from 10 AM to 3 PM only in Building 2 Room 101
Rootstock & scionwood: Sales and grafting services on Sat (3/19) 10 AM to 3 PM: Rootstocks and scionwood will be sold at nominal prices posted at the show. Assistance with grafting will be offered free of charge. Grafting services will be available for a fee. Please find below the initial list of varieties for the upcoming show:
APPLES
Early Wynoochee
Karmijn de Sonnaville
Rhode Island Greening
Northern Spy
Holstein
Esopus Spitzenburg
Spartan
Queen Cox
Kingston Black
Bulmer’s Norman
Blackmac
Spigold
Jupiter
Darcy Spice
Yellow Transparent
Jonathan
Buckley Giant
Bud-9
Lodi
Red McIntosh
McIntosh
Paradisaica Atro Sanguina
Niagra
Gravenstein, Yellow with strip
Gravenstein, Bloodred
Gravenstein, Black
Gravenstein, Rosebrook
Gravenstein, Chetwood
Gravenstein, Green
Gravenstein, Common
Gravenstein, Starr
(and a few other gravensteins of specific name)
Red Astrachan
Pink Pearl
Caiouett
Apricot
Ross NonPareil
Bill’s Redflesh
Gold Rush
Blushing Golden
Egremont Russet
Erwin Baur
Keepsake
Chehalis
Early Fuji
Golden Nugget
Kidd’s Orange Red
Hawaii
Pink Sparkle
American Golden Russet
Pink Princess Jansen
Tydeman’s Late Orange
Pink Sugar
Muscat de Bernay
Russet King
Harrison
Kermerrien
Brown’s Apple
Breakwell Seedling
Cap of Liberty
Domaines
Campfield
Ananas Reinette
Fuji
Dolgo
Gala
Braeburn
Roxbury Russet
Silken
Tompkin’s King
Spartan
Tsugaru Homei
Twenty Ounce
White Winter Pearmain
Wagener
Alkmene
Arkansas Black
Akane
Ashmead’s Kernel
Blue Pearmain
Bramley’s Seedling
Beni Shogun
Ben Davis
Belle de Boskoop
Brown Russet
Braeburn, Hillwell
Dayton
Fameuse
Fall Pippin
Wolf River
Grand Alexander
Holstein
Jonagold
Mother
Melrose
Pristine
Newtown Pippin
Northern Spy
Rubinette
Ellison’s Orange
Reinette Clochard
Rosemary Russet
Etter’s Gold
Lord Hindlip
Nutmeg Pippin
Elstar
Sweet 16
NY426
Freyburg
Shay
Macoun
Lubsk Queen
Wealthy
Winter Banana
Yellow Belleflower
ASAIN PEAR
Chojuro
Jamese
Shinseiki
Mishirasu
Ichiban Nashi
Atago
Seuri
EURO PEARS
Arabitka
Spaulding
Bosc
Concorde
Comice
Orcas
Conference
Rescue
Clapp’s Favorite
Highland
Harrow Delight
Atlantic Queen
PLUM
Beauty
Italian Prune
Mirabelle de Metz
Reine de Mirabelle
Shiro
Coe’s Golden Drop
Seneca
Early Laxton
Victory
Imperial Epineuse
Valor
Cambridge Gage
Methley
Early Golden
Kuban Comet
CHERRY
Northstar
Victoria
Bing
Early Burlat
(about 12 more, names not available right now)
QUINCE
Aromatnaya
GRAPES
at least five varieties
FIGS
So far no one has donated fig cuttings.
I might able to come up with some “Desert King”.
STSF members are looking forward to seeing you at the event.
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