Summer Orchard Tour Schedule: August 11th, 2022
Mark your calendars!
August 11th 2022 has been selected as the date for the 2022 Summer Orchard Tour. The Orchard Tour will begin at Miner's Marsh in Kentville at 87 Cornwallis Street (behind the Justice Building). There will be ample parking for those wanting to take the bus. We are asking folks to arrive at 8:15AM for introductions and greetings. Buses will be boarded at 9:00AM sharp! There will be five different orchard stops, with lunch along the way at Northville Farm Heritage Centre.
Please register at this link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18i8xx-DJHNK2v_EsxAf4KbEfhZjni0i8VBSpIlhLPUc/edit
Schedule
*Please note some of these times are subject to change as we finalize travel and presentation times
8:15 Meet at Miners Marsh, 87 Cornwallis Street, Kentville (behind Justice Building)
8:30 Introductions and Greetings
9:00 Bus departs
9:30 Sarsfield's Farms: Equipment use including leaf blower, hedger, and platforms
779 North Medford Road, first driveway past the house on the same side
10:15-10:30 Bus to Power Farms
10:30-11:00 Power Farms: Harvest Management
581 North Medford Road, Canning, in the block across the road from the house
11:00-11:30 Bus to Van Meekeren Farms
11:30-12:15 Van Meekeren Farms: Thinning Gala for for size and fumigation trial (2
separate stop locations on this farm)
237 Thorpe Road, Lakeville
12:15-12:30 Bus to Northville Farm Heritage Centre
12:30-1:30 Lunch at Northville Farm Heritage Centre
1158 Steadman Road, Centreville
1:30-1:45 Bus to Stirling Mountainside Farms
1:45-2:30 Stirling Mountainside Farms: Responses to pruning on Honeycrisp and
Ambrosia, finger weeder equipment
261 Bains Road, Centreville
2:30-2:50 Bus to Noggins
2:50-3:45 Noggins Corner Farm: Stone fruit and farm market operation tour
10009 Nova Scotia Trunk 1, Greenwich
(orchard road across from Irving on south side of Hwy 1)
3:45-4:00 Bus to Miner’s Marsh
4:00 Return to Miner’s Marsh, 87 Cornwallis Street, Kentville
