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Peninsula Fruit Club 2023 Fall Fruit Show

The Peninsula Fruit Club 2023 Fall Fruit Show is just around the corner!  Save the date, Oct. 28, and come and taste to your heart’s content.  The show opens at 10 am and runs until 4 pm at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton.  Get your mystery apples identified—bring 5 or 6 ripe, unwashed apples of each mystery variety in a paper bag, be sure the stems are still on, and tell us about the tree.  If they are ripe before the end of October, please store them in the refrigerator in a paper, not plastic, bag.  This year we are accepting leaf samples along with the apples.  Bring a 12” stem with leaves in a plastic bag.  The plastic bag with leaves can be put inside the paper bag of apples.  Come and learn about growing fruit, get your questions answered, stock up on items for next year, and buy something new at the plant and tree sale.  We can accept cash, checks, and credit cards.  Admission is free. 

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PFC 2019 Fall Fruit Show – Oct 26

2019 Fall Fruit Show presented by Peninsula Fruit Club, a chapter of Western Cascade Fruit Society. Come join us for a fun day of fruit tasting and learning about growing fruit. Get your mystery apples identified—bring 4-6 samples of each kind, don’t wash, leave the stems on, tell us about the tree.  Sample hundreds of different varieties of apples, pears, and other fruit. Take in a video or browse our information tables. Learn about pests, diseases, and mason bees.  Find something interesting at our plant sale, and stock up on supplies for next year.  Ask questions of our experts.  Admission is free but donations are appreciated.

Details: Sat., Oct. 26 from 10 am to 4 pm at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton 98312. Take the Loxie Eagans Blvd. exit off Hwy 3 and follow the signs.

Here’s a link to our Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2294402007353034/

Peninsula Fruit Club – Fall Fruit Show

2018 Fall Fruit Show presented by Peninsula Fruit Club, a chapter of Western Cascade Fruit Society. Come join us for a fun day of fruit tasting and learning about growing fruit. Get your mystery apples identified—bring 4-6 samples of each kind, don’t wash, leave the stems on, tell us about the tree.  Sample dozens of different varieties of apples, pears, and other fruit. Take in a video or browse our information tables. Learn about pests, diseases, and mason bees.  Find something interesting at our plant sale, and stock up on supplies for next year.  Ask questions of our experts.  Admission is free but donations are appreciated.

Details: Sat., Oct. 27 from 10 am to 4 pm at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton 98312. Take the Loxie Eagans Blvd. exit off Hwy 3 and follow the signs.

Here’s a link to our event on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/events/327966648024460/

Peninsula Fruit Club 2013 Fall Fruit Show

Peninsula Fruit Club will host the 2013 Fall Fruit Show on Saturday, October 12, in the Silverdale Community Center, 9729 Silverdale Way NW, Silverdale from 10 am to 4 pm.  Admission is free, but we would appreciate a donation.  We will have videos on anthracnose, pruning blueberries, and mason bees.  There will be trees for sale as well as grafting and growing supplies.  We should have around 200 different cultivars of fruit on display and available for tasting.  This is a wonderful chance to bring your mystery apples to have them identified.  The expert apple ID team of Joanie Cooper and Shaun Shepherd from the Home Orchard Society in Portland will be on hand to ID your chantix buy online uk apples.  Lori Brakken will be there and have the online apple ID program running.  Please bring 4 to 6 samples from each tree, do not wash the fruit, and leave the stems on.  Tell us all you can about the apples:  When do they ripen?  How long do they keep?  If you can have an idea how old the tree is, that sometimes helps a lot.  How tall is the tree?  When does it flower?  All these clues will help figure out what variety of apple you have.

 Join us for a fun day of tasting fruit and learning about growing fruit in this area.  Here’s a link to our flyer:  https://wcfs.org/wp-content/uploads/PFC-Fall-Show-Poster-2013.pdf

 

 

Apple ID Meetings

Hello People interested in Apple ID –

We are set and ready for the upcoming Apple ID meetings.

Here are the scheduled times and places…

Feb 4th, 9:30-11:30am,Silverdale,WA @ Station 51 at10955 Silverdale Wy NW, 98383

Feb12th, 1-3pm,Portland,OR

Feb 18th, 1-3pm Seattle, WA @ Green Lake Library, 7364 E. Green Lake Dr. N. 98115

March 4th,Victoria,BC

The purpose of these meetings are to …

1. Go over the Apple ID program and get some buy champix tablets online final input before revisions are done this spring.

2. Discuss the addition of more apples by regional groups.

3. Discuss ways to make the program work better for the regional Apple ID teams.

4. Discuss the future of the program and where it is headed.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

Yours fruitfully,

Lori