Join us for this month’s meeting on Thursday, April 10. Meetings are open to the public. Peninsula Fruit Club member and past President Jean Williams will be giving a presentation on pollination. Come early for social time. Doors open at 6:30 pm, and the meeting starts at 7 at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton.
Peninsula Fruit Club’s annual Spring Grafting Show is Saturday, March 15, 2025, from 10 AM to 4 PM at the West Side Improvement Club, 4109 West E Street, Bremerton, WA 98312. Take the Loxie Eagans exit off Hwy. 3 and follow the signs.
LEARN HOW TO GRAFT and make your own fruit tree, or have one of our members make it for you. BEGINNERS WELCOME! Choose from hundreds of different antique and modern varieties of apples, pears, plums, and other fruits. We will be selling EMLA 26, BUD 10, and Geneva 969 apple rootstock, OHxF 87 pear rootstock; Myrobalan plum rootstock, Krymsk 1 peach/nectarine rootstock, scion wood for grafting; and sticks of figs, grapes, and kiwis for rooting. Stock up on trees, berries, and other plants, footies for insect protection, grafting knives, mason bees and houses, and other supplies. Learn about pests and diseases and what to do about them. Find out all 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.
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Did you know you can make maple syrup from big leaf maple trees? Jeff Rupert will be giving a presentation about tapping maple trees this Thursday, February 13th, at 7:00 pm at our monthly meeting at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd, Bremerton, WA 98310. Come early at 6:30 for social time. Meetings are open to the public.
Join us at our first meeting of the year on Thursday, Jan. 9, to learn about pruning fruit trees. PFC member Alan Lowe will be presenting. We meet at the Sheridan Park Community Center, 680 Lebo Blvd., Bremerton. Doors open at 6:40 pm for social time, and the meeting starts at 7. Meetings are free and open to the public.
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.