The Festival Of Fruit is now open for registration. You can register online and pay via PayPal, or you can do the usual method of downloading the form, filling it out and mailing it in.

http://festivaloffruit.org/index.html
http://festivaloffruit.org/Registration.html

Know about growing different fruits. And for the citrus fans like us, Tracy Kahn, curator of University of California Riverside Citrus Varietal Collection will be one of the speakers. This year, the Pitahaya or Dragon Fruit will be featured. There will be tours, seminars, workshops, fruit and wine tasting.

The schedule is still a work-in-progress, only the main event is definite. So bookmark the site and check it for updates from time to time.

The Main Events of Saturday, August 14th, 2010 will be held at

The Bronco Student Center Of Cal Poly Pomona
3801 W. Temple Ave. Bldg. 35 Pomona, Ca. 91768

And the list of speakers and their topics:
http://festivaloffruit.org/Speakers.html

I was invited to talk about the basic technique of making high quality fruit wines that can be done by a typical backyard fruit grower. Edgar Valdivia is also finalizing a wine tasting event, featuring various recipes of Pitahaya (Dragon Fruit) wines that I made for this special event. Edgar was kind enough to send me several batches of vine-ripened Pitahaya fruits of various cultivars that he grew himself. For the wine tasting, I will also include various fruit wines from my yard as well as from the other commercial wineries that specializes in exotic organic wines.

Learn the basics of fruit wine making. One of the best ways to preserve the fruits of your labor is to turn them into wine. I'm so passionate to share the techniques to fellow fruit growers. It doesn't require major expense to make excellent fruit wines, but it demands passion and patience.


Joe Real

Joe I am a long time member of the CRFG. I am certainly glad to see you on the list of speakers. I also see David Karp is once again speaking. David is getting to be a perennial speaker at the Festival of Fruit. Dario, who has been a long time customer of ours is speaking on his favorite fruit, the cherimoya. He has spoken on cherimoyas several times before. Lastly Tracy Khan from UCR is alway interesting. For those who are not familiar with Tracy (a woman) she is the long time head of the Variety collection in Riverside. I might put the Festival on my attend list this year. Talk Benny and his wife into attending. - Regards Millet (1,198-)

I hope Millet will have time to attend.
Yes, it is always interesting to hear Tracy Kahn talk about her passion for the citruses. If we don't speak at the same time slot, I would surely attend her seminar.