CRFG members put together another great table for the National Heirloom Exposition – a major event featuring thousands of heirloom varieties of produce and livestock, hundreds of pure food vendors, and numerous speakers. Thanks to everybody who helped setup and … Continue reading
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CRFG held its annual Summer Plant sale and fundraiser. Dozens of varieties of rare fruit trees and plants were sold. … Continue reading
Ted Richarson hosted a tour at his Bella Ridge Farm, a small, 2 acre, CCOF certified farm outside of Occidental. We toured his over 300 fruit trees including apples, pears (European and Asian varieties), peaches, pluots, plums and more. The … Continue reading
A Bark Grafting and Citrus grafting demonstration was held at David Ulmer’s house. David demonstrated grafting persimmons by top-working to existing trees with bark grafts. Ray Sheehy shared his knowledge of bud grafting citrus trees. He brought citrus rootstocks and various varieties of … Continue reading
On March 15 we held our annual Grafting Clinic at David Ulmer’s house. David gave a brief grafting talk and demonstration, then everyone who wanted individual instruction had the opportunity to buddy up with one of the experienced grafters. Participants were encouraged to bring scions if … Continue reading
CRFG expert grafters gathered together to graft heirloom trees for their annual plant sale fundraiser. Numerous varieties of apple, pear, cherry, plum and peach scions were on hand, plus super rootstocks (myro plum, red leafed Lovell peach, OHxF pear and mahaleb cherry) … Continue reading
For the second year running, CRFG members hosted a grafting clinic at Altimira Middle School in Sonoma. CRFG provided rootstocks, grafting materials and expert grafter/instructors. Something like 120 kids have grafted apples. Some kids took them home to plant. Other trees … Continue reading
This year’s scion exchange was a great success, as usual. Please enjoy the following photos from the event. … Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who helped make our annual Apple/Pear tasting a success. Thanks especially to Keith Borglum for arranging the venue at Ace Cidery. We had a cool place out of the sun and a chance to taste some wonderful … Continue reading
CRFG-Redwood hosted their annual summer plant sale at the farmer’s market at the Wells Fargo Center in Santa Rosa. Special thanks to the 15 or so helpers who turned out, all worked grafting and potting at the winter grafting party, … Continue reading