Don't go to the Washington County Fairgrounds hoping to find the Fruit Propagation Fair/Scion Exchange. It will be at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds in Canby.
Also, remember that it starts at 11am this year, not 10 am like previous years, to decrease conflict with another show at the same place.
See below:
Home Orchard Society
Fruit Propagation Fair
(Scion Exchange)
March 19, 2011
Clackamas County Fairgrounds, Canby, Oregon
11am to 5pm (new hours this year!)
HOS Members: $4/person, $8/family
Public: $6/person, $10/family
Become a new member at the door and get in FREE!
What to Expect
•100's of free fruit-tree scions.
•Rootstocks for apples, pears, Asian pears, and stone fruits for sale.
•Mason bees for sale.
•Custom grafting.
•Books and HOS publications.
•Free advice from HOS experts.
•Garden/orchard tools/American pruning saws sharpened, adjusted, and for sale.
•And much more!
Flyer
Download PDF Event Flyer
The new welcome flyer, your personal guide to the event.
Grow good fruit at home! This annual event offers cuttings of hundreds of varieties of fruit including apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries, grapes and figs. Many are heirloom or rare. Cuttings are free with the price of admission. Rootstock is available at nominal cost. Mix and match--our experts show you how to graft your selections! Or place an order through the "Make a Tree" program and let seasoned grafters do the work. Purchase berries and other edibles at the plant sale. Books and in-house publications are available at reduced prices. Learn about HOS mason bee cultivation and sales. Vendors offer tools, supplies, and advice. If you have scion wood you want to share, please bring it!
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Held at the Clackamas County Fairgrounds, Canby, Oregon
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That's too bad. It was quite crowded. Many people were at our info booth. It was a great event. We had many people coming through, sometimes astounded at what we told them. They varied from people who literally had no idea what they wanted, to experts giving us ideas. It was good to be a part of helping people learn to grow fruit.
John S
PDX OR
A good thing you didn’t have far to drive, Lon. It bothered me, too; much like the ‘cycling event’ staged at the Washington County fair grounds at the All About Fruit Show last Oct… It would have been nice had any of the bikers come to look over our show, but after hundreds (if not thousands) of them packed the close-in lots, causing many of us to walk an eighth mile to the pavilion, they were off cycling Oregon …as attendees to our event searched for parking, then searched for us…
This struck me much the same, and the traffic ‘guards’ weren’t all that friendly either, though ‘volunteers’ (too). It was a good thing I’d brought my kid’s old battle wagon - so I didn’t have to make several trips back and forth to my rig. I heard today’s competing event was a horse ‘Tack sale’ or auction … and we appear to compete with a different event every time we secure a large location, especially on a Saturday. But I heard we broke yet another attendance record – by quite a bit! I believe we had more folks ‘today’ than both days of the AAFS – with some down from Seattle!
My first grafting client was up from Eugene with wood she’d secured from Berkeley CA! …tiny little scions I preformed micro-surgery on – good thing she caught me while my eyes were still fresh. …so next time … aim for the “Yellow Lot†at the far right past everything else, and sorry you didn’t make it in, but thanks for the scion wood.
Idyllwild
simplepress
jafar
Marsha H
Viron
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