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Fruit and Vegetable Growers Striving for the Best

NEWS

 

Save the Date – Events and Training for

Winter ’22-‘23 
If you need CEU credits for nutrient management, pesticide licensing, or want to brush up on new ideas, this roster of winter meetings and training events looks good!


February 28, 2023

Virtual Vegetable Grower’s Meeting


Register: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0tdu2trDIvHd3uCOyMB9oJ-oCrWUYltuqV

March 8,2023

Virtual Fruit Grower’s Meeting
Register: https://umd.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcsf-qsrDsvE9UzvLsUSYy9ZWR_OMhbTr5O


Produce safety questions? Contact Carol Allen: 240-994-5043, callen12@umd.edu.

New Online Course for Maryland Cottage Food Producers & On-Farm Home Processors

Register here: https://go.umd.edu/mfvcourse

For questions or needing accommodation contact:
Dr. Shauna Henley, shenely@umd.edu

HOW TO BECOME A MEMBER

The membership year runs from January 1st to December 31st.  Membership dues are collected during the registration process for the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention.  For those seeking membership after the convention click here... for more information.
 

TREE ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (TAP)

Tree Assistance Program (TAP) is to provide financial assistance to qualifying orchardists to replant or rehabilitate eligible trees, bushes, and vines that were damaged by natural disasters. To learn more about this program and eligibility, click here for more info >>

WMREC HORTICULTURAL TWILIGHT MEETING & TOUR

Click here to access handouts >>
 

PUBLICATIONS

Click on the links below:

Horticultural Technology Newsletter

Spotted Wing Drosophila Monitoring and Management 
University of Maryland Fact Sheet 1023, November 2015

 

SOURCES FOR MD GROWN FRUIT

Click on the links below:
Maryland Apples

Maryland's Best
National Peach Council
University of Maryland Extension: Grapes and Fruit
University of Maryland: Aronia
Mid-Atlantic Aronia Growers Association

FRUIT MEETINGS


Bay Area Fruit School  (link to presentations & videos) 
Western Maryland Regional Fruit Meeting (presentations)

EVENTS

University of Maryland Extension

WESTERN MARYLAND REGIONAL FRUIT MEETING

The annual WMREC Fruit Meeting is scheduled for Thursday March 2, 2023.

This event will be in be held at the University of Maryland Research and Education facility in Keedysville MD (WMREC).

A great diversity of speakers from University of Maryland Extension (UME), Plant Science and Landscape Architecture  (PSLA), Maryland Department of Agriculture (MDA), and The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) are lined up to give the pesticide and nutrient recertification's and the updated information on cultural, disease, and insect management. Also research and development updates will be provided.

 

 2022 - 2023
MSHS Executive Board Officers

Hallie Butler-Van Horn, President

Bryan Butler, 1St VP

Brad Miller, 2nd Vice President

Bob Black, Treasurer

Haley Sater,  Secretary

Board members are 

Paul Jackson

Stephen Milburn

Daniel Heyser

Stephen Blades

2019 Summer Tour visiting Arterra     Photo Credit:Christopher Black

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