Passion for Nuts
Passion for Nuts Started 80 years ago and Going Strong Jim Sunnerville started cracking nuts with his mother when he was 10 years old. He can remember gathering Black Walnuts […]
Passion for Nuts Started 80 years ago and Going Strong Jim Sunnerville started cracking nuts with his mother when he was 10 years old. He can remember gathering Black Walnuts […]
A veteran nut grower invited me over to pick up nuts from under his Heartnut tree. We also picked a lot of Hazelnuts (but that’s another story). I am a […]
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 […]
Longtime plant breeder and famous pawpaw breeder, Neal Peterson, will be visiting Michigan next month for some speaking engagements. We’ll be lucky enough to host Neal for our Fall Meeting […]
A recent article was published in the Lansing State Journal about chestnuts as an emerging ingredient in demand for MI’s ever expanding craft beer industry. Dennis Fulbright and Bill Nash, […]