2021 Summer Meeting: Chestnut Farm Tour
Michigan Nut & Fruit Growers Association (MNFGA) is planning to have an in-person gathering in July or August of 2021 at a chestnut farm near Grant, MI. This is a […]
Michigan Nut & Fruit Growers Association (MNFGA) is planning to have an in-person gathering in July or August of 2021 at a chestnut farm near Grant, MI. This is a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]
Earlier this week Neal Peterson visited with our group for two fantastic events. The first one was an evening seminar at Zingerman’s creamery; prior to Neal’s presentation Tessie Ives and […]