Summer Fruit Festival (Third Saturday in August)

 

20th Anniversary: August 20, 2011

 

8:30 –  4:00 Entrance East – Registration – Entrance is free to current members. Non-members $15 per person, $30 per family.
8:30 –  1:00 Outside West – Sampling: Preserves, Plums and Unusual Fruits.
9:00 –  4:00 Entrance East – Information Booths: WWFRF “Store”, Beekeeping, Beat the Heat, Master Gardeners, Charlies Greenhouse, Edible Seattle, Raintree, One Green World, Antles Pollen Supplies
9:00 –  9:30 Auditorium – Spotted Wing Fruit Fly Update – Dr. Beverly Gerdeman
9:35 – 10:15 Auditorium – Commercial Pollination Panel – Chuck Best of Antles Pollen Supplies, Dr. Robert Norton, Bryan Fisher
9:35 – 10:15 Fruit Garden – Rootstocks and Irrigation Tour – Kim Siebert
10:20 – 12:00 Auditorium – Top 20 Panel Panel - Sam Benowitz, Dr. Robert Norton, Jim Gilbert, Bill Davis, Gary Moulton, Jacky King
(Honor Norton, Moulton, King & past WWFRF Board Members)
10:30 – 12:00 Fruit Garden – Top Grafting Older Trees and Summer Bud Grafting – Bernie Hilgart    The trees that were top grafted at the Winter Field Day have grown and are ready to have the permanent branches selected.
11:00 –  2:00 Entrance east – Patty Pan Grill – Vegetarian gourmet, under trees
12:00 – 12:50 Auditorium – Unusual Fruits – Jim Gilbert
12:00 – 12:50 Fruit Garden – Commercial Pollination demo. – Chuck Best
12:00 – 12:50 MG Pavilion – Selecting Fruit Trees for Home Gardens – Bob Baines
12:30 –  2:00 Kitchen – Sampling of Black Current Sorbet
1:00 –  1:50 Auditorium – Review of the Fruit Research Program – Jacky King
1:00 –  1:50 Fruit Garden – Antique Apple Tour Tour – Dr. Bob Norton
1:00 – 1:50 Fruit Garden – General Fruit Garden Tour – De Arbogast
2:00 –  2:50 Auditorium – Best Fruit Varieties from 20 Years of Trials – Sam Benowitz
2:00 –  2:50 Fruit Garden – Unusual Fruits Tour – Jim Gilbert
2:00 –  2:50 Fruit Garden – General Fruit Garden Tour – Tom Wake
3:00 –  3:50 Auditorium – Cooking with Fruit – Graham Kerr
3:00 –  3:50 Fruit Garden – Espalier Tour – Kristan Johnson
2:00 –  4:00 Tasting – Wine & Cider: Tulip Valley Vineyard (1 mile west on 536)

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