Fall Meeting
NYNGA Fall program at
the Otto and Grace Farnham Homestead, 148 Farnham
Road, Conklin, NY, 13748...Saturday, October 15,
2016. The program will focus on the harvesting and
processing of the nuts of NYS, particularly black
walnuts , butternuts, hazelnuts, and chestnuts and
their preparation for food use and for use as seed
nuts for growing nut tree seedlings in 2017.
8:30 Arrival snack and
schmooze
9:00 Introduction to
the Farnham Homestead...Otto and Grace Farnham
9:15 Butternuts in
NYS...National Forest Service Butternut
Conservation program...FLNF Staff
9:45 The NYNGA English
Walnut Project....Carl Albers/Steve Lisbin and
other NYNGA members
10:15 Break
10:30 “Foragers”: Who
they are and what they do!....Jerry Henkin
11:00 Tour of the
Farnham property and nut tree plantings...Otto
Farnham and Other NYNGA Members
11:30 Staggered Lunch
and Dehulling , washing, drying, storing, curing
of nuts for eating and stratifying nuts for spring
planting......demo and hands-on....Otto Farnham
and Other NYNGA Members
1:00 NYNGA Business
Meeting
1:30 Hazelnuts in NY
up-date...Jeff Zarnowski/Tom Potts/Peter Haarmann
2:00 “To your nut
crackers”... presentation of various hard nut
crackers and nut cracking time trials. NYNGA
Members
2:45 Walnut “dessert”
and departure
Registration: Please
complete this registration form and send it to:
John Wertis, 8144 Searsburg Road , Trumansbsurg,
NY. 14886. (607-387-4331)
(<bwwfarmtoday@aol.com>)There is a $10.00
charge to cover a sandwich platter lunch plus ,
drinks, snacks and nut materials provided for
hands-on experience and take home use. Please make
checks or money orders payable to “NYNGA”.
Name(s) in Party:
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Phone
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E-mail_________________________________________
Residence
Address_______________________________________________________________
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Amount Enclosed @
$10.00/ person ________________________
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