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Coastal Otago Branch

Branch contact - coastal-otago@treecrops.org.nz
The national calendar of events below shows events for all branches. 

The posts below show archived events and news that were mainly published prior to the switch to using one events calendar for all branches.

NZTCA National Conference 2015 Northland Branch

NZTCA annual national event, March 20~22, 2015 

‘Conference 2015’ hosted by Northland Branch

Biological Growing

– Expert Speakers and Workshops include organic agriculture, bio fuel, seaweed-sourced fertilisers – soil food, moth pheromones and apples, herbs and plants to attract beneficial insects.

– Field trips include a Kiwifruit orchard, Avocado orchard, and a sub tropical nursery & gardens.

Bookings closed – sorry.
Conference 2016 details coming soon…

Details on page Conference 2015 and in December 2014 TreeCropper.

Coastal Otago Branch – 2015 Branch AGM and growing from seed

COASTAL OTAGO ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 14 February 2015

Paul and Liz have agreed to host this year’s annual meeting on 14th February.

Liz and Paul are at Frew Road.  Frew Road is on the left as you head North from Herbert. Their entrance is just over the railway line.

The plan is to arrive at 10.00 am and have a walk around with the meeting starting at 1.00 pm.
Paul and Liz are adept at growing from seed.  Come & learn some of their tricks.

Bring your lunch.
 

NZTCA 40th National Conference 2014 notice, April 11-12-13

CONFERENCE 2014 notice: NZTCA 40th National Conference
2014 April 11-12-13
Ashburton, South Island

WATER: The Elixir of Life: The field trips, north and south, allowed you to see up close the efforts being made in this part of Canterbury to ‘farm the water’, while at the same time visiting many excellent places of interest to Tree Crop members and giving a wider view of this area in autumn.

Details on page conference-2014 and in December 2013 TreeCropper.

Coastal Otago – AGM

Coastal Otago Branch Annual General Meeting

Sunday 24th February 2013, 7.00 p.m.

The Annual General Meeting of the Coastal Otago Tree Crops Association
will be held at Anne’s place, Brownville Crescent, Maori Hill
on Sunday 24th February 2013 at 7.00 p.m.

Coastal Otago – Grafting workshop

Saturday 1st September 2012 at 1.00pm

Duckworth Street, Andersons Bay, Dunedin

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The grafting workshop will be followed by a pruning demonstration.
Cost of participation will be $25.00 which will include 1 apple tree rootstock in a bag.
The participant will graft an apple variety of the type they want.
Additional rootstocks will be available on the day for $10 for members and $15 for non-members. Membership forms will be available on the day.
The workshop will be limited to 20 persons.
Prior Registration is required to Bruce Parker 03 4395602.
Bruce will advise everyone in the event of unsuitable weather.
This workshop will be held outdoors and those attending will need to wear gumboots, (at least) and should bring pruning tools.

The site in Duckworth Street is situated on the upper north facing slopes of Andersons Bay, a nice area of mature natives, tuis and all, sheltered and warm. There are a couple of large plum trees and about 20 un-pruned three-year-old apple trees. These trees will be used to explain the first pruning and long-term management.

There will be a variety of scion wood available on the day.
This is a great opportunity to learn a useful skill which can be applied to a wide range of useful trees.

150 issues of the Coastal Otago newsletter

From Coastal Otago Branch newsletter, August 2012:
150 issues of the Coastal Otago newsletter
Congratulations to us all for the branch to reach 150 newsletters!
The first three were photocopied in the same format as today. Then they were reproduced using a stencil created using a typewriter (an old manual one!). The first I have is un-numbered and undated.

It reported on a meeting people interested in tree crops held on 3 February 1988. It announced an AGM to officially reinstate the Coastal Otago Branch. There were a couple of recipes for possum repellents, a short article on walnuts and another on acid rain.