The Kentucky Nut Growers Association

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KNGA Summer Meeting to be Held  on July 10  2010

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European hazelnuts ‘Yamhill’ and ‘Theta’ in the KSU greenhouses. Photo by Kirk Pomper in June, 2010.

The Summer KNGA Meeting Will be Held on July 10, 2010

The Summer meeting of the Kentucky Nut Growers Association will be hosted by Dr. John Strang and be held at the University of Kentucky E.S. Good Barn on Saturday, July 10th, 2010. The address for the E.S. Good Barn is: 1451 University Dr., Lexington, KY, 40506 and a map of the location of the facility can be found on page 2 of this newsletter. The Good Barn is located between Nicholasville Rd. and University Dr. off of Farm Rd. You may park in any of the lots as our meeting is on Saturday. The meeting will be held between 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m and will include grafting and budding demonstrations, as well as a tour of the nut, persimmon, and pawpaw plantings at the UK Arboretum. If you bring something that will need to be heated or warmed, there is a well-equipped kitchen that can be used for that purpose. The luncheon will be potluck and there will be a kitchen available to heat up lunch items. Please bring items for the fall auction. For additional information, please contact Dr. John Strang at (859) 257-5685 or email jstrang@uky.edu. Please bring a friend to the spring meeting and introduce them to KNGA!

The Kentucky Nut Growers Association is a non-profit organization that was formed to promote interest in nut bearing trees; research in their breeding and culture; dissemination of educational material and information; and to encourage locating and reporting of promising seedling trees which may be adaptable to the regions represented by the membership. Kentucky is generally well-suited for growing nut trees and Northern pecans, black walnuts, heartnuts, hickory nuts, Carpathian walnuts, American hazelnuts, and Chinese chestnuts grow well in the state. KNGA has about 300 members who are interested in growing nut trees, as well as pawpaws and persimmons. Two Association meetings are held per year. The Spring Meeting takes place on the fourth Saturday in April, and the Fall Meeting on the fourth Saturday in October.  If you would like to become a member of KNGA, please feel free to attend our summer meeting or send in a membership application form.

Posey Pecan at 2007 Kentucky State Fair. Photo by K. Pomper.