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Virginia Chapter Events Calendar
May 14 1:00 pm Seminar in Warm Springs, VA
Chapter Board Meets at 10 am (members welcome)
April 2 Sylvan Affair a Success
Pollination schedule:
Training - May 19 in the main conference center of the DOF building 900 Natural Resources Drive, Charlottesville
May 25. Marshall office
Pollination prep - June 1-2
Bagging - June 4-5*
Pollination - June 18-19*
* tentative, depending on flower maturation
Contact vachestnut@verizon.net or (540) 364-1922 for details or to volunteer
Chapter Newsletters
2011 VATACF Events
March 1 Tate Technical Comm Mtg Richmond
March 7 The Chestnut Story - Izaak Walton League
March 8 The Chestnut Story - Middleburg Garden Club
March 11 Fortunes Cove Prep
March 12 Fortunes Cove Planting (March 13 rain date)
March 19 Go Green Day, Galax, VA
Mar. 25. Stony Brook – Planting(Rain date Mar. 26)
April 1 Venture Outdoors - Lynchburg
April 4 Old Whitewood Planting (Apr. 5 rain date)
April 14 The Chestnut Story - Hill School, Middleburg
April 16 Arbor Day Planting Fairfax County Government Center
April 28 The Chestnut Story - Retirement Community at Pantops Charlottesville
April 29 Earth Day Event at Bedford County Public Schools
April 30 Loudon Arbor Day - The Hill School, Middleburg
May 1 The Chestnut Story - Allegheny Master Naturalists
May 6 Venture Outdoors - South Boston
May 14 Board Meeting & Seminar Warm Springs
May 18 Fauquier County Green Drinks at VATACF Marshall office
May 27 The Chestnut Story - Hunt Country Society of Gardeners
July 21 John Clayton Chapter Virginia Native Plant Society Williamsburg
2010 VATACF Events
Sat Mar 21 - American Chestnut Restoration Symposium GMU
March 24 & 27 Stony Brook Orchard prep,
March 30 & 31 Dam Orchard, Fauquier Co.
April 14 & 18 Fortune's Cove Orchard, Nelson Co.
April 22 & 25 Old Whitewood Orchard, Fauquier Co.
April 24 Loudoun Arbor Day, Morven Park
May 9-11 Blandy Garden Fair- State Arboretum
Wed May 19 - Pollination Training Madison
Sat Jun 5 - MEGAT Training Wintergreen Nature Center
June 3 -26 Bagging & Pollination Virginia trees
Sun Jun 13 - Chestnut History Talk at Humpback Rocks
Sat Jun 26 - MEGAT Training Pinnacles Shenandoah National Park
July 31 Volunteer Gala - Stony Brook Farm, Syria
Sept. 22-29 Harvest Virginia backcross nuts
Oct. 2 - Process and record nuts - Marshall office
Oct. 9-10 - Blandy Arbor Fest VA Arboretum
Oct. 15-17 National Annual Meeting, NCTC, Shepherdstown, WVA
October 21 Chestnut Planting - Mill Mountain, Roanoke
Oct. 22- Ceremonial Planting Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton 2:15 pm
Oct. 22-23 Virginia Annual Mtg, Frontier Culture Museum, Staunton
2010 Outreach Pesentations to Other Groups
April Fairfax Master Gardeners at Greenspring
May 5 Hope Lutheran Church Senior Lunch, Annandale
Oct. 17- No. Shenandoah Master Naturalists at Blandy
Nov. 9 - Greene County Master Gardeners
Nov. 15 - Tree Stewards, Charlottesville
Nov. 15 - Prince William Wildflower Society
