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Fall Meeting

- Johnson County Park September 12th -

   Heartnut Festival Weekend

Lunch 11:30     Business Meeting & Nut Grove Tour 12:30     Auction 2:30-3:00

Meeting Information and Directions


Grafting demonstration and tour or Arbor America, Inc.
May 16, 2010
Pot Luck Lunch 11:30         Meeting 12:30 Auction


Presentation by Arbor America’s Black Walnut enterprise. See 100 acre plots of Black walnut and
side by side walnut variety test plots. The grafting demonstrations will be primarily on walnut.
Lunch and meeting will be in their barn in case of rain. Bring your own tables, chairs, eating tinsels.
If you have potted material that can be used for the demonstrations please bring.
Bring material for the auction, both as donations and revenue sharing. Here is your chance to pick
up a few extra bucks.


Driving directions:

From West Lafayette take either South River Road or IN 25 West to South County Road 700W.

Go to County Road W. 200 S. Turn west to the meeting site.


Annual Scion Swap Meeting

Sunday March 28, 2010

Speaker: Justin Schmal: “Fertilizing Trees”

Farm Bureau Office - Indianapolis

225 S East St
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Lunch 11:30      Meeting 12:30      Scion Swap—All Day      Speaker 1:30      Auction 2:30-:00

Meeting information and directions

 


Winter Meeting - Elections

Sunday December 6th, 2009

Speaker: Mr. Barry Nichols: “The Bats of Indiana”

Lunch 11:30         Meeting/Elections 12:30         Speaker 1:30 -2:30         Auction 2:30-3:00

Bring a dish to share, seeds & bulbs, auction items, and be

ready to vote for new INGA officers & directors

 Marion County, Purdue Extension Office

6640 Intech Blvd., Suite 120, Indianapolis, IN 46278

The fabulous INGA member pot luck lunch will be opened at 11:30.

Announcements and business meeting begins about 12:45. Note that we will hold elections. Think about your current officers and who you would like to see nominated, elected, or removed from office. Two of our Directors will be up for renewal.

Speaker: Barry Nichols - “The Bats of Indiana”

Barry Nichols is currently an endangered species biologist in Kentucky. He's a member of several scientific organizations, INGA (life member), KNGA (life member), NNGA (life member), a member of the Pawpaw Foundation, the Ohio Pawpaw Grower's Association, and a board member of NAFEX and Appalachian Pawpaw Growers Assoc. He has been a biologist for roughly 23 years. He's also the webmaster of persimmonpudding.com, a website dedicated to the growing, education, and use of Diospyros virginiana L., the common, or American persimmon. He has a similar website on pawpaws in the works. He has planted thousands of native persimmons and pawpaws in wildlife plantings in Kentucky. Barry is the current editor and board member of the Kentucky Naturalist News, the quarterly newsletter of the Kentucky Society of Natural History. He and his wife Margarita hope to relocate to southern Indiana within a few years.  

 

Click here for the Meeting Brochure and Directions 


Fall Meeting—Show & Tell

Sunday September 20th, 2009

David & Karen Richards
6526 Persimmon Ridge Rd
Nineveh, IN 46164

Pitch-in Lunch 11:30                 Meeting 12:30                 Show & Tell -1:00 -2:30                 Auction 2:30-3:00

Bring a dish to share, tables & comfortable chairs, auction

items, and things to Show & Tell!

Click here for the Meeting Brochure and Directions 
(Including pictures from the 100th NNGA Annual Meeting)


100th NNGA Annual Meeting Information

at Purdue University in West Lafayette , Indiana

July 19 through July 23, 2009

Meeting Brochure


POUNDS PECAN
In the spring of 1983 Leon "Doc" Pounds came to the spring INGA meeting. He brought with him a Major pecan seedling that he had simply pulled out of the soft wet spring soil. He offered it to Jerry Lehman who took it home and planted it. The tree has grown vigorously and 22 years later is over 50 feet high. The first year it bore nuts some were judged by the Indiana Nut Growers evaluation committee. It rated well and Bernie Vanderkleed, Evaluation Committee Chair remarked of the quality. In 2003 the tree bore over a bushel of good quality nuts. In Terre Haute they drop from the husk in Nov. It is lateral bearing and showing anthracnose resistance as well. As with many pecans this one sets heavy crops causing it to bear biannually. This nut has been named "Pounds" in honor of Leon "Doc" Pounds and is being further tested by other growers. Pounds is an unconditional release by Lehman. Scion wood will be available again at the scion annual swap meeting or can be mailed to interested parties.  Contact Jerry Lehman, 7780 Persimmon St., Terre Haute, IN 47802-4994, JWLehman@aol.com


Year-round Farmers Market in Marion County

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Suggested Meetings & Dates for 2010:

March 2 Scion Swap at Farm Bureau Insurance

May 16 Grafting at Arbor America, West Point, IN

Sept 12 Fall Meeting at Johnson County Park

Dec 5 Business meeting at Marion County Extension Center


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