Our last meeting of 2024 is Thursday, November 14. Guest speaker Fawn Wagner will give us a presentation on “A Journey Through Native Edible Berries”. Doors open at 6:30 pm for social time, and the meeting starts at 7 pm at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. We will be electing next year’s officers at this meeting also.
Peninsula Fruit Club’s Fall Fruit Show is almost here! We would like to invite everyone to the 2024 Fall Fruit Show on Saturday, October 26, at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton 98312, from 10 am to 4 pm. Join us for a fun day of fruit tasting and learning about growing fruit. Just take the Loxie Eagans exit off Highway 3 and follow the signs. Admission is free. Donations are greatly appreciated.
Here’s your chance to have those mystery apples identified. Please bring 4 to 6 samples of each kind, do not wash the fruit, leave the stems on, and store in the fridge in a paper sack. Bring a 12” long branch with leaves in a plastic bag. Remember paper for apples and plastic for leaves. Label each bag so you know which tree they came from. Tell us all you can about the apples: When do they ripen? How long do they keep? How old and tall is the tree? How big is the trunk? All these clues help to figure out what variety of apple you have.
We’ll have a large display of different cultivars of fruit all available for tasting. Find new favorites–choose from samples of hundreds of different varieties of apples, pears, and other fruit. Browse our information tables. Learn about pests, diseases, and mason bees. Ask questions of our experts. Stock up on supplies for next year, and find something interesting at our tree and plant sale.
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Join us on October 10, 2024, to learn about tapping maple trees. Jeff Rupert will be our speaker. We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton, WA. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the meeting starts at 7.
Come join us on Thursday and learn about permaculture practices and growing fruit with Cliff Reinke. Cliff is a Certified Permaculturist and a member of Peninsula Fruit Club. We will also be talking about the upcoming Fall Fruit Show and will have bookmarks and flyers for you to pass out to help advertise the show. We are also reinstating the Question and Answer board. Write your questions on it, and we will answer them during the meeting. Come to the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton on Thursday, Sept. 12. Doors open at 6:30 pm for social time, and the meeting starts at 7.
This month’s meeting is Thursday, July 11. Sam Maupin from The Brothers Greenhouses will be giving a talk on growing tomatoes. Join us at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Doors open at 6:40 p.m. for social time. Meeting starts at 7.
At our meeting this week on Thursday, May 9, Dr. Jenise Bauman from Western Washington University will give a presentation on environmental changes and in addition will talk about chestnut trees. We’ll also be having our annual plant swap. Bring extra plants, bulbs, or potted plants you want to give away or trade for something else. Doors open at 6:40 for social time, and the presentation starts at 7 pm. We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., in Bremerton.
This month’s meeting on April 11 will feature Ben Weiss from WSU Mt. Vernon speaking about hydromulch and hugelkultur. Meetings are open to the public and are held in the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time, and the speaker will start at 7 pm.
Join us Saturday, March 16, from 10 AM to 4 PM, at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton 98312.
Peninsula Fruit Club presents the 2024 Spring Grafting Show.
Learn how to graft and make your own fruit tree, or have one of our members make it for you. Add varieties to existing trees. Beginners welcome! Choose from hundreds of antique and modern varieties of apples, pears, plums, and more. We will be selling EMLA 26, Bud 10, and Geneva 969 apple rootstock, OHxF 87 pear rootstock, Myrobalan plum rootstock, and Krymsk 5 cherry rootstock; scion wood for grafting; and sticks of figs, grapes, and kiwis for rooting. We’ll have plum, cherry, and apple trees and blueberry bushes at the plant/tree sale as well as other plants, footies for insect protection, grafting knives, mason bees, houses and straws , and other supplies. Learn all about pests and diseases and what to do about them. Find out about our native mason bees and how to care for them. We’ll have lots of experts on hand to try to answer all your fruit related questions. Spend some time with us at the show and learn all kinds of interesting things. Admission is free, but donations are greatly appreciated.
This month’s meeting topic is about making hard cider. Bill Sproules, retired previous owner of Olympic Brewing Supplies on Wheaton Way, will teach us about small batch fermentation. The meeting is at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton, on Thursday, Nov. 9. Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time, and the meeting starts at 7 pm.
Ken Miller from Vashon will be teaching us about biochar at our next meeting on Thursday, Oct. 12 at 7 pm. Ken’s presentation will start promptly at 7 pm. We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time.