The Vashon Island Fruit Club’s (VIFC) annual Fall Fruit Show is rapidly approaching on Saturday, November 2nd, from 10 am to 3 pm. The festivities will take place in the Senior Center and the Land Trust Building, both on Bank Road. Our display of Island grown fruit will be in the Senior Center, along with the apple identification and membership table (renewal season is here). We will also be selling our young grafted trees, primarily apple. Next door at The Land Trust Building will be presentations on fruit related topics.
PRESENTATIONS in the Land Trust Building
- 11:00 am Dr. Ethan Russo: “The Holistic Orchard: Experience on Vashon with an Organic Spray Program” This presentation will outline one Vashon Islander’s application of Michael Phillips’ organic approach to fruit growing that:
- Is a general tonic for plants.
- Produces improved fruit growth, vigor and nutrients.
- Markedly reduces insect predation via anti-feedant effects, but is not harmful to pollinators.
- Is anti-fungal on leaves and fruit, but improves champix online chantix mycorrhizal symbiosis in the soil.
- Reduces bacterial and viral disease burdens.
- 1: 00 pm Dr. Beverly Gerdeman : “Backyard Fruit Pests in Western Washington.” A noted researcher and entomologist from Washington State University, Dr. Gerdeman will share techniques for protecting backyard fruit from damaging insects – including the newly arrived and dreaded spotted wing drosophila.
- 2:00 pm Drs Al Watts and Bob Norton “The Bob and Al Show”:
- Our oldest and wisest fruit growers sit down to a conversation and we get to listen in!
ISLAND-GROWN FRUIT DISPLAY at the Senior Center
If you have fruit to donate and/or you want to help provide information about the fruit on display at our sampling tables in the Senior Center, call Doug Tuma at 463-3897 or 228-2101 or e-mail: dtuma@centurytel.net.
For more information about the event, contact Anne Woodward, 206-463-2177