New York Nut Growers Association Summer Meeting, Saturday, August 23, 2025

Main meeting: Capital City Grange, 6612 VT-12, Berlin, VT

Afternoon field trip: Perfect Circle Farm, 1170 Airport Road, Barre, VT

Main Program:

9:00 to 9:30     Registration, breakfast, exhibits display and opening remarks.

9:30 to 10:00     Hazelnuts, hickories, and English walnuts
Carl Albers, NYNGA Vice President

10:00 to 10:30     Non-chemical strategies for reducing predation in nut crops
Tina Barney

10:30 to 10:45    BREAK

10:45 to 11:30   Butternut seedling regeneration and DNA
Dr. Dale Bergdahl, Professor Emeritus of Forestry, University of Vermont

11:30 to 12:00   Planting a stand of black walnut for timber
Dr. Mark Heitzman

12:00 to 1:00   LUNCH and Video, Cloning a hazelnut tree using the method of stooling, Peter Haarmann

Afternoon field trip

1:30 to 3:00    Tour of Perfect Circle Farm, led by Buzz and Sandra Ferver, at 1170 Airport Road, Barre, Vermont.

Optional additional site visit

3:00 to 4:00    Tour of Mark and Deborah Heitzman's black walnut planting, Barre, VT.

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