Schedule of Events

8:30am    Registration & Refreshments

9:00am    An Introduction to Oakwood Fruit Farm by Steve Louis

9:15am    Orchard Rotations – Split into 4 groups – 30 minutes each

• Fighting Fire Blight in High Density Orchards—Patty McManus, UW Extension Pathology
• Pheromone Mating Disruption—Christelle Guedot, UW Extension Entomology
• Varieties and Rootstocks—Tom Callahan, Adams County Nursery and Steve Louis, Oakwood Fruit Farm
• Irrigation and Trellising—Oakwood Fruit Farm

9:50am  Second Orchard Set

10:25am  Third Orchard Set

11:00am Fourth Orchard Set

11:30am  Apple Thinning using NEWA—Amaya Atucha & Janet VanZoeren, UW Extension Horticulture

12:15pm  Break for Lunch (included)

1:00pm  Food Safety—Michael Mosher, DATCP

2:00pm Bakery & Retail Tour and Discussion:Jena Lorenz, Judy Alvin and Jody Louis, Oakwood Fruit Farm

3:00pm   Adjourn the Day