INGA News
Fall Meeting
- Johnson County Park September 12
th -
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 6
th, 2009Speaker: 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
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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
July 19 through July 23, 2009
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
Suggested Meetings & Dates for 2010:
March 2
Scion Swap at Farm Bureau InsuranceMay 16
Grafting at Arbor America, West Point, INSept 12
Fall Meeting at Johnson County ParkDec 5
Business meeting at Marion County Extension Center
