Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Newsletter October 2007

October Meeting

When: October 20, 2007, 10:00 am-noon

Where: Apple Lane Farm, 1200 Alamo Pintado Road,Solvang

Directions: Alamo Pintado Road is just 1/3 mile on the south side of Solvang at Traffic light on State route 246. Turn toward hospital; go onemile, you will see a small red building where the apples are sold on right side of road.

Owners Ted and Peggy Lane have invited us to visit their apple farm. The fall apple harvest is here and oh, is it crisp and sweet!

The Lanes have been growing apples at their farm for the past 20 years. No pesticides, no wax; just fresh, crisp Gala, Golden and Red delicious, Fugi, and Granny Smith apples. Their Granny Smith apples are probably the biggest you have ever seen. You can almost taste the apple crisp and apple dumplings now. By the way, the Lanes have great a recipe for Apple crisp.

The Lanes have raised their family at the home, that is, in the middle of the apple orchard. All the prunning is done by Mr. Lane and his wife gives tours to the local school children on Johnny Appleseed’s birthday.

The Santa Ynez area has the perfect climate for raising good apples. So make sure you attend this meeting to pick and purchase tree ripened apples. The tour of the orchard will start promptly at 10:00 am, so make sure you come a little early, just incase you get lost.

Check out their web site at http://applelanesolvang.com/

****** New Officers Needed
Members, there's a need for someone else to lead the Ventura/Santa Barbara CRFG Chapter, as both Jerry Sortomme and Norman Beard have been perfoming the duties for many years.

They have resigned their duties effective January 30, 2008. The January meeting will be held at Norman Beards place.. The election and appointment of new leaders will be held during that meeting. First, I would appreciate some volunteers. Both Jerry and I will act as Directors to the chapter, so please volunteer, as we will give you all the help we can. I will also be the membership recruiter, continue speaking to garden groups and exhibits at garden shows.

Please discuss this with other members you know and let’s try to find two people who are willing to take over as Co-Chairpersons of the Chapter. We should also name at least three people to form a committee to book meetings for the year 2008.

Thanks for your support,

Norm Beard
968-0989 beardtropics@earthlink.net

******CALENDAR

November: Ron Asquith will host us at the Ojai Olive Oil Ranch.
December: No meeting

******LOCAL OFFICERS

Chapter Co-Chair: Norman Beard, (805) 968-0989, beardtropics@earthlink.net Chapter Co-Chair: Jerry Sortomme, (805) 644-2777, jerrysortomme@hotmail.com
V-Pres/Publicist/Programs: Alan Schroeder, (805) 563-9525, arschroeder@cox.net
Treasurer: Roland Messori, (805) 969-4167, Furlanro@msn.com
Newsletter Team: (i) Vacant (ii) Wally Mathews, (805) 963-6656, wallysb@aol.com; (iii) Laura Nanna, (805) 687-4553, laurainsb@gmail.com

Local website: current material http://crfg.blogspot.com older material: http://crfgvsb.blogspot.com;

CRFG Website: http://crfg.org

For Membership in California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc, send $30 to CRFG, Inc., 66 Farrugut Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94112-4050 AND $10 (for local dues) to Roland Messori, 355 Sierra Vista Rd., Santa Barbara, CA 93108 (Note: Members of the Parent CRFG organization receive the outstanding "Fruit Gardener" magazine.)

Send address changes to BOTH the parent and local organizations (addresses above). Send e-mail address changes to crfgvsb@gmail.com