2021 Fall Meeting
Tom & Lisa McKarn’s Farm, Clinton, MI 49236 We had a great time at the edge of the woods, next to the pond, under the pavilion and surrounded by walnut […]
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Summer Meeting 2021
August 14, 2021, Saturday, Noon Bruce Smith Farm, Grant, Michigan We started at noon with a fantastic potluck meal. Considering that it is not coordinated, it is always impressive that […]
April 10, 2021 Spring Virtual Meeting
The MNFGA 2021 Spring Meeting was a virtual meeting using Zoom. It was held on April 10. The guest speaker was paw paw grower Marc Boone. Marc successfully grows paw […]
New tree seed starting method!
MNFGA member Mike Svendsen, down the road from me, is giving away his great idea for starting tree seeds. He has very successfully used 3″ diameter schedule 20 (sewer drain […]
Walnuts in Maine
Black Walnut Collecting in Maine during the Fall of 2019 Kris and Lee Taylor Black walnuts are not native to Maine so are not common in the landscape. Occasionally in […]
Summer Meeting 2019
The 2019 MNFGA Summer Meeting was on July 13 in Portland, MI. We were fortunate to visit the Charles & Wilma Leik family farm. Charles and Wilma have been restoring […]
Grafting Class 2019
MNFGA hosted a grafting class on April 13, 2019 at: MSU AgBioResearch Station 9302 Portland Road, Clarksville, Michigan 48815. We started with the basics of grafting as an audio/visual presentation. […]
2019 Spring Meeting
The Spring Meeting of MNFGA was at MSU on March 23, 2019. Our featured afternoon speakers were Chris Wright on growing mushrooms and Suede Mobley on hunting mushrooms. Though a […]
Spring Meeting 2020
Please contact a Board member with ideas for topics of the 2020 Spring Meeting. Topics currently on the table include tree nutrition, invasive species and tree trimming/pruning.
Black Walnut: Products from an Anachronistic Tree by Terry Calhoun
At the recent spring meeting Terry Calhoun gave a fantastic talk about his farm outside of Ann Arbor where he tends fruit and nut trees as well as three 9-hole […]
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