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Tuesday, August 1, 2006

 

Source: New York Nut Growers Association, John Gordon, NYNGA secretary, [email protected]

 

New York Nut Growers meet Saturday, August 12, 2006 at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry on the Syracuse University  Campus, Second Floor Illick Hall, Syracuse, NY.

 

Syracuse, NY (NYNGA) People interested in growing nuts are invited to the summer meeting of the New York Nut Growers Saturday, August 12, 2006 at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry on the Syracuse University Campus, Second Floor Illick Hall, Syracuse, NY.  Take Interstate Highway 81 to Exit 18 cleaving to East Adams Street.  This is Exit 18, but multi-street, and you need to watch off-to-the-side signs for East Adams Street real fast.   Take East Adams Street east to Irving Avenue.  Turn right (South) on Irving Avenue to its end with ESF campus entrance on left (Guard Booth) and Illick Hall in front of you as you round the guard booth.  Use Parking Lot 6 up hill behind Illick.  This meeting is mainly an American chestnut meeting on pure American chestnut and American elm trees with a few resistance genes added.

9:00-9:30 – Arrival, chat, snacks (Coffee, tea, bagels, buns, and nutty stuff).  9:30-10:00 – NYNGA brief business meeting - election of officers.  10:00-12.00 Prof. Charles Maynard and Prof. William Powell and their staff will speak on “tissue culture techniques and transgenic procedures used to produce pathogen resistant cultivars of American chestnut and American elm. 12:00-12:30 Caravan to the College’s Experimental Forest. 12:30-1:00 Box picnic lunch at the forest.  1:00-2:00 Tour of the elm and chestnut plantings.

 

Drop-ins are invited free, except lunch should be bought or arranged.

 

NYNGA members should register ahead for $12, which includes lunch.

 

Visitors who drop in, and buy a membership for $20 receive a free gift:  “Nut Growing Ontario Style” $12 book, 174 pages, illustrated with line drawings.

 

Questions?  Call 607 387-4331, Colleen S. Green, NYNGA treasurer.

 

The New York Nut Growers Association formed after the 2001 meeting of the Northern Nut Growers Association to better explore local NY nuts.  NY conditions require unique growing and varieties of hazel (filbert), walnut (& butternut), heartnut, chestnut, hickory, pecan, pawpaw and persimmon.