Heartnuts and the Husk Maggot Fly
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 […]
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, […]
This past Wednesday the Walnut SIG met at the Clarksville Research Station for an evening all about walnuts! Burak Akyuz is a turkish grad student who is in town for […]