New York Nut Growers Association Fall Meeting, Saturday, October 19, 2024

Whallonsburg Grange Hall, 161S NY-22, Essex, NY 12936

and afternoon field trip to Barred Owl Brook Farm, 735 Lake Shore Rd, Essex, NY 12938.

Main Program:

8:30 to 9:00     Registration and breakfast.

9:00 to 9:25     lntroductions, Stratification of Nuts
Jerry Henkin, NYNGA President, sproutnut@aol.com

9:25 to 10:00     Growing Hazelnuts and English Walnuts
Carl Albers

10:00 to 10:25   BREAK

9:55 to 10:20    Creating Adirondack Food System Resilience
Josh Stefani, Adirondack Food System Network, josh@adkfoodsystem.org, 920.973.1207

10:45 to 11:05   An lntroduction to the Agricultural Environmental Management Program - Opportunities for Agroforestry
Daniel Berheide, dberheide@essexcountyswcd.org

11:05 to 11:25   Barred Owl Brook Farm
Alex Caskey and Audrey Crocker, Barred Owl Brook Farm, barredowlbrook@gmail.com

11:25 to 12:00   PANEL (all participants)

12:00 to 1:00     LUNCH

Afternoon Field Trip

Barred Owl Brook Farm, 735 Lake Shore Rd, Essex, NY 12938.

The primary focus of the owners, Alex Caskey and his wife Audrey Crocker, is to provide fellow producers with high quality genetic inputs for agroforestry production systems in the form of high quality tree crops nursery stock and Katahdin hair sheep breeding stock selected for performance in a silvopasture system, where tree fodder comprises portion of their diet during the grazing season.

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