While at the CRFG,Sacramento scion exchange in January,I signed up for their emails.This is one of them and meant for local people mostly.bb
More help requested for grape collection at Wolfskill.
Hello CRFG,
I hope that you are all doing well and staying healthy.
Thank you to those of you who ventured out and helped us prune the National grape collection. With your help, we are about ¼ to 1/3 of the way through.
We are pruning on weekdays beginning at 9:00 and on this Saturday, March 28 beginning at 8:00. If you plan to come out, please drop me an email.
We can keep people safe pruning because we have so much space in the field to spread out and so many grapes to prune. Individuals prune every other row and the rows are 13 feet apart, ensuring that people are 20 feet apart, unless they share a residence or come in the same automobile.
However, we cannot do that with our fruit tastings. Therefore, we are cancelling all public fruit tastings until further notice. Eventually things will regain normalcy and they will return.
Again thank you for all of your help it is greatly appreciated.
John
John E. Preece, Ph.D.
Supervisory Research Leader/Horticulturist
National Clonal Germplasm Repository, Davis, CA and
National Arid Land Plant Genetic Resources Unit, Parlier, CA
USDA-ARS
Davis office:
Physical Location:
3201 Straloch Road
Davis, CA 95616
Mailing address:
National Clonal Germplasm Repository
One Shields Avenue
University of California
Davis, CA 95616-8607
Office: 530-752-7009
Cell: 321-412-3717
Fax: 530-752-5974
John.Preece@ars.usda.gov
www.ars-grin.gov/dav