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2005 FESTIVAL OF FRUIT

Tuesday September 6th-Saturday September 10th, 2005

The 2005 Annual Meeting has already wrapped up. Please go to Annual Meeting Home for 2006 Information

Link to Joseph Postman's meeting presentation: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cor/presentations.html

Download 2005 Festival Registration Form

Other Festival Information: Documents 1 2 3 4

CONFERENCE LOCATION: UCSC Inn and Conference Center is in Santa Cruz at 611 Ocean Street. Call (866) 827-2466. The NAFEX and CRFG special rate of $99 per day includes a continental breakfast and applies to either a single or a double room (Live it up! Bring a friend.) These rooms normally cost $150 a night. A list of nearby hotels will be available soon.

TRAVEL: The San Jose International Airport is about 30 miles east of Santa Cruz and the San Francisco International Airport is over an hour away. When attending tours away from Santa Cruz or Watsonville, it is recommended that you stay in motels in the tour cities because of heavy Bay Area traffic. Motel 6 has locations in Davis, Pinole and San Jose. On Tuesday, the Wolfskill tour at Winters near Davis, is about 100 miles north of the San Jose International Airport with Pinole about the half way point. A local garden tour will be available for those interested in staying in the Pinole area on Monday evening. Tours on Wednesday are mostly in the Santa Clara Valley (in and near San Jose).

PARKING: Parking is limited around the hotel on weekdays. You can increase your chances of obtaining a space by staying at the hotel or car pooling. Extra spaces will be available across the street (east) of the hotel on Friday and some spaces are available west of the hotel around a city park. On Saturday, the county government complex parking lot can be used so parking will be plentiful.

REGISTRATION: Registration forms will appear simultaneously on the websites (www.nafex.org & www.crfg.org) and in the Fruit Gardener around July 1st. See instructions on the registration form for mailing and payment. However, the form does not mention PayPal but this option is available for on-line payment. Forms can be sent to Bill Grimes at 66 Farragut Avenue, San Francisco, CA94112. Also, the forms may be scanned and e-mailed to Bill at president -@- crfg.org . Registration packets given out at the conference (on most of Friday and on Saturday morning) will include ID badge, meal tickets and fruit tasting tickets. If you can pick up your registration early, your ID badge will help tour assistants check you in for tours. You can attend tours without picking up your ID from your registration packets. Registration packets may be picked up early at the following locations:

Monday - Idell Weydemeyer’s in El Sobrante (1.5 miles from the Pinole Motel 6), just off Highway 80, on the way to the Tuesday Wolfskill tour . Pick up packets from 2:30-5:00 p.m. or call 510-223-6291 if you are traveling through earlier.
Wednesday am& pm-Prusch Park, at the car pool site at 8:00-9:00 am and 4:30-6:30 at the picnic.
Wednesday pm-UC Santa Cruz Conference center ( 8:00-9:30 pm) . Signs will be posted for the location.
Thursday pm-UC Santa Cruz Conference center( 7:00-9:00 pm) See above.

DIRECTIONS & MAPS:

Prusch Park in San Jose (Word Document)

UCSC Inn: Word document with map. To travel to the UCSC Inn and Conference Center, take Highway 17 west from San Jose (connect from San Francisco to Highway 17 via Highway 101) or the scenic Highway One (north or south of town) to Santa Cruz and exit at the Ocean Street/Beaches sign. Note: Mapping programs using the 611 Ocean Street Conference Center address send you to the wrong side of Highway 1. However, if you use the address next door to the Center ( 701 Ocean Street) the location and directions will be correct.

Tours: After a registration is received, directions and maps (or addresses so you can use mapping programs) will be e-mailed or airmailed for individuals on specific tours with either the car pool site or the actual address given. Car pool sites include Prusch Park in San Jose, the Santa Cruz County Fairground in Watsonville and the UCSC Inn. (Check the websites for these maps). See the tour listings for details and restrictions on tours.

TOURS: Check the listings.

SPEAKERS: See the listings.

FOOD: A lists of restaurants in the Santa Cruz area will be available with the registration packet.On Wednesday, a late-day pot luck picnic will be held at Prusch Park in San Jose after the tours finish. Box lunches available at the UCSC Inn on Friday and Saturday (regular, vegetarian or vegan) cost $8.25. The Friday key-note speaker will entertain us during a buffet dinner; this dinner, including a fish, chicken or vegetarian/vegan main course and dessert, costs $22.00.

FRUIT TASTING: Dave Wilson Nursery will sponsor the Friday fruit tasting. The Saturday tasting will feature local Santa Cruz fruit.

VENDORS: For vendor information contact Katherine Pyle at kpyle -@- sonic.net or 510-843-1657.

QUESTIONS: Conference co-chairs-- Bill Grimes at president -@- crfg.org , 415-469-0966 or Idell Weydemeyer at iweydemeyer -@- yahoo.com , 510-223-6291.