New York Nut Growers Association Spring Meeting, Saturday, April 22, 2023

Main program: 4H Acres, 418 Lower Creek Road, Ithaca, NY 14850

Afternoon field trip: Surik Mehrabyan's nursery, Newfield, NY

Main Program:

8:30 to 9:00     Registration, breakfast and welcome.

9:00 to 9:30     Agroforestry and NYS grant program
Gabe Smith, NYNGA President, sproutnut@aol.com

9:30 to 9:50     Pawpaws
Roger Ort

9:40 to 9:55     New York Farm Viability Institute
David Grusenmeyer, Executive Director, NY Farm Viability Institute, dgrusenmeyer@nyfvi.org

9:55 to 10:20    Layering hazelnuts and chestnuts
Jeff Zarnowski, jeffz@znutty.com, Z's Nutty Ridge Nursery

10:20 to 10:35   BREAK

10:35 to 11:00   Protecting nut trees from small mammals
Peter Haarmann, Grower, Aquebogue, NY, phaarmann1952@gmail.com

11:20 to 11:50   Crop insurance
Deanna Brennan, Northeast Marketing Agent, Crop Growers, deanna.brennan@cropgrowers.com, 607-216-5353

11:50 to 12:20   Personal nut tree growing experience
Richard Fahey, Grower

12:20 to 12:30   Announcements

12:30 to 1:15     LUNCH

Afternoon field trip

1:30 to 3:00    Tour of Surik Mehrabyan's nursery at 191 Millard Hill Road, Newfield, NY, 14867

Surik provided a good introduction to fruit tree grafting, much of which applies to nut tree grafting.

Meeting Announcements:

Coming soon.

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