Newsletter: February 2007

FEBRUARY MEETING

WHEN: Saturday, February 17, 2007, 10-Noon meeting

WHERE: Riverbear Farm, 913 Oso Rd., Meiners Oaks (Ojai Valley) Host: Gordon Kennedy – Owner Phone: 805/646-4608 Cell: 805/218-5698 Email: caveman@ojai.net

WHAT: This farm is the oldest established mulberry farm in North America (nearly 30 years old), with 66 mulberry trees and 116 other fruiting trees (both deciduous and non-deciduous) including citrus, che and other exotics. You can read about this farm in the November/December '06 issue of the CRFG Fruit Gardener (p. 28, The Marketplace under Classified Ads.

See you there... weather permitting (Sprinkles is sissy weather)

DIRECTIONS: Take 101 Freeway to Hwy 33 (north to Ojai) Stay on Hwy 33, LEFT at the fork (do not drive Hwy 150 into the town of Ojai) Past Nordhoff High School LEFT at El Roblar Dr., continue until it dead-ends at Rice Rd. RIGHT on Rice Rd. Proceed on Rice Rd. past Fairview Rd. LEFT on Meyer Rd. RIGHT on Oso Rd.

******MANY THANKS

…to Bruce Van Dyke for a superb grafting clinic. And to Norm Beard for provide a great setting and a wonderful tour.

*******CHECK IT OUT

http://www.nalusda.gov/speccoll/collectionsguide/mssindex/pomology/pomology.shtml

Check out this USDA National Agricultural Library page for watercolor pictures of fruit. The watercolors were commission in the late 1880s to aid plant breeders in the accurate documentation and dissemination of their research results in a period when many new varieties and species were being introduced into this country. The miscellaneous fruit section contains tropical and rare fruit.

******CALENDAR

March 17 Arroyo Hondo Preserve

April 21 Casa del Herrero

******RENEWAL TIME

Renew your membership in the local chapter by sending $10 to Roland Messori, 355 Sierra Vista Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108.