Wednesday, February 7, 2018

2018 Tree Fruit Schools
Every February, Virginia Tech/Virginia Cooperative Extenstion organizes a week of orchard fruit schools.  Fruit specialists (horticulture, entomology, plant pathology) deliver information that will be helpful to growers in the coming season.  The dates and links to agendas are provided below.
 
The Patrick-Carroll school will be held on Monday, Feb 1
2.  The Botetourt-Roanoke school will be held on the morning of Wednesday, Feb 13, starting at 8:00 AM. A recently added fruit school, the Southside school in the lineup again this year, and will be held on the morning of Feb 14.  The Nelson-Albemarle (Central Virginia) school  will be held in the late afternoon-evening of that Wednesday, Feb 14, starting at 3:00 PM.  The Madison-Rappahannock school will beheld on Thursday, Feb 15, and the Winchester school will be held on Friday, Feb 16.  Additional details on the agendas will be posted when available

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