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Happy New Year Everyone!!

Our next Bainbridge Island Fruit Club meeting will be next Thursday the 15th from 6:30pm to 8:30pm (please note the time change), at the Bainbridge Grange Hall.

The topic Darren will be discussing this month is collecting & preparing fruit cuttings for grafting and propagation (including apples, pears, plum, cherries, and peaches…as well as figs, grapes, red/black currants, and gooseberries). Darren in planning on bringing some grafting tools and branches for us to practice on, and examples. Sounds fun to me!!!

We have loaded some grafting documents Darren has thoughtfully found for us to read onto the resources page of this website under the category: “General Gardening: Home Fruit Production”.
Hope to see you there!!

There will be no meeting this month due to the Holidays. We will meet up again on January 15th at our new time of 6:30pm at The Grange!! See you then!!

Our last monthly meeting of the year is this Thursday, November 20th.

• Please join us for Speaker Kathleen Allen on PT for Gardeners!
• Old Business to be discussed –
  If your interested in being on the Board or the much needed Secretary position come and throw your hat into the ring.
• Meeting Schedule:
• Meeting times (6-8pm, 6:30-8:30pm?)
• No club meeting in December due to holidays.
• January’s meeting “scion wood collection/storage and simple grafting techniques”.
• February’s meeting “winter pruning” (w/ weekend workshop).
• March’s meeting “hands-on grafting workshop”.
• April’s meeting “pest controls”
• Any other announcements, upcoming events?
• Meeting adjourned.