California Rare Fruit Growers Redwood Chapter has a Rare Fruit Tree Collector’s Sale

By July 3, 2015 July 6th, 2015 News
California Red Fruit Growers Redwood Chapter

California Rare Fruit Growers – Redwood Chapter
Rare Fruit Tree Collector’s Sale – Open to Public
Saturday July 25th , 9AM to Noon
at the Original Farmers Market next to the Wells Fargo Performing Arts Center and Sutter Hospital, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa 95403


Our friends at the California Rare Fruit Growers – Redwood Chapter sent us this press release. Their work is completely in agreement with the Slow Food’s Foundation for Biodiversity which administers the Ark of Taste and supports the work of Presidia all over the work such as the Sebastopol Gravenstein Apple Presidium.  We are so fortunately to have the California Rare Fruit Growers – Redwood Chapter work with us in Saving The Gravenstein.


Press Release
For Immediate Release

Rare Fruit Tree Collector’s Sale – Open to Public
Saturday July 25th , 9AM to Noon
at the Original Farmers Market next to the Wells Fargo Performing Arts Center and Sutter Hospital, 50 Mark West Springs Road, Santa Rosa 95403

There are thousands of varieties of trees, vines and shrubs that bear edible fruit. Most people are familiar with only the most common varieties of fruits that are available commercially in stores. Many of these commercial varieties are available primarily because of the durability of the fruit for shipping, handling and storage rather than for best flavor. Even though the best tasting fruits can be too fragile for commercial distribution, they are perfectly suited to the home-gardener. Anyone with at least a six-foot by six-foot patch of open sunlight can successfully grow a tree with delicious fruits, even if only in a box of soil on pavement. Properly selected fruit-bearing plants can also be used for edible landscaping, proving a pleasing visual display in addition to gourmet treats. Many are drought-tolerant. Multiple fruit varieties can be grown on the same plant by means of simple grafting techniques, resulting in a “fruit salad” tree!

Many of the best tasting fruits are only available from specialty catalogs and growers, or through hobbyist organizations like the California Rare Fruit Growers (CRFG). CRFG promotes interest in all aspects of fruit-growing, with special emphasis on rare and unusual fruits. North Bay CRFG members in “Luther Burbank country” get together regularly to taste fruits, trade plants, and to swap tips on local growing techniques and what grows best in local conditions. One recent meeting featured over 100 different locally grown fruits to taste!

An annual event, open to the public, is the California Rare Fruit Growers Redwood Chapter plant sale where commonly over 50 varieties of common, rare and experimental trees and plants from collectors all over Northern California are available at modest charge. This year will feature unusual apple varieties like those in the Burbank Goldridge Farm collection, plus rare figs, plums, peaches and pears, plus a limited number of multi-grafted “fruit salad trees”. There are experts available to answer questions for gardeners.

Redwood CRFG has local events throughout the year, including garden tours, fruit tastings, juice pressings, and classes. Membership is only $41 per year and includes a color magazine, tastings, garden tours, free grafting and pruning classes, cider-press rental, events and an interesting fruit-gardeners’ online forum. More info on the web at http://www.crfg-redwood.org.

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