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Fruit Trees
Orchard Ladders
Cider
Pest Management
General
Arboreta
& Botanical Gardens
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
www.towerhillbg.org
Fruit Trees
Whether you use organic or conventional orchard practices, several websites can provide you with a great deal of information about insect and disease pressure, spray timing, frost predictions and a whole lot more. Here are a few of the best:
UMaine Cooperative Extension: umaine.edu/ipm/programs/apple/
Cornell University: fruit.cornell.edu/
University of Vermont: uvm.edu/~fruit/
Holistic Orchard Network: groworganicapples.com/
Apple Crop
www.virtualorchard.net
Cornell University: Grafting
https://courses.cit.cornell.edu/hort494/mg/
Lost Nation Orchard - Michael Phillips (author,
The Apple Grower)- Organic Orcharding
www.herbsandapples.com
North American Fruit Explorers (NAFEX)
www.nafex.org
Penn State Agricultural Sciences : Small-Scale
Fruit Production — A Comprehensive Guide
http://extension.psu.edu/plants/gardening/fphg
Planting: Calculate the spacing required for your
Apple trees
http://www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/
Renovating Old, Abandoned Apple Trees
http://www.fedcoseeds.com/trees/renovating.htm
http://www.nsapples.com/rejuven.htm
The Apple Pest Report and
other regional tree fruit newsletters are available online at following
addresses:
Maine Apple Pest Report http://umaine.edu/ipm/programs/apple/newsletters/
New York http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2001/
Massachusetts http://extension.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/
New Jersey http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/pubs/plantandpestadvisory/
Pennsylvania http://extension.psu.edu/plants/tree-fruit/news
Vermont http://orchard.uvm.edu/uvmapple/newsletter/index.html
Orchard Ladders
Baldwin Orchard Ladders
Sturdy lightweight traditionally shaped wooden orchard ladders have wide bottoms for stability and narrow tops for easy handling and placement. Contact the manufacturer:
Peter Baldwin
207-722-3654
baldwin@acadia.net
Cider
Cider Presses:
Talisman Farm Cider runs the Cider Digest, an electronic
newsletter and forum about all things cider. Invaluable resource,
and the past issues are also archived for download. Well worth subscribing
to.
www.talisman.com
Western Massachusetts family crafting hard ciders
using Golden Russets and Baldwins.
www.westcountycider.com
New Hampshire cider crafters using traditional
English cider apple varieties. Friend of Fedco Trees whose advice
and gifts of scionwood have guided our variety offerings.
www.povertylaneorchards.com
Unique Massachusetts orchard/brewery/winery/distillery/great
restaurant and friend. They offer many varieties of fruit, including
some English cider apples, as pick-your-own. Along with their wines
and cider, the new distillery line includes apple and pear brandies.
www.nashobawinery.com
Washington State University site with good general
information on hard cider varieties, as well as an excellent chart
for heirloom and common American apple varieties and their traditional
English classifications (sweet, bittersweet, sharp, bittersharp).
http://www.mtvernon.wsu.edu/
THE UK hard cider site. Lots of links, guides to,
book suggestions, and all around excellent promotion.
www.ukcider.co.uk/wiki/
UK Campaign for Real Ale has a sub-group called
APPLE (the Apple and Pear Product Liaison Executive) to promote
cider and perry (hard pear cider).
www.camra.org.uk/about-cider-perry
And in case you need a new cider press...
Correll Cider Press:
http://www.applejournal.com/correll/index.htm
or
Lehman's Non-electric:
www.lehmans.com
Pest Management
Pest Management at the University of Maine
http://umaine.edu/ipm/
The Twenty-third Annual March Message (a compilation
and discussion of the state of the art in insect pest management
of apples) is available on the “New” UMass Fruit Advisor
www.umass.edu/fruitadvisor/
National Park Service Integrated Pest Management
Manual
http://www.nature.nps.gov/biology/ipm/manual/ipmmanual.cfm
Scaffolds Fruit Journal - IPM : Cornell University,
NY St Agricultural Experiment Station
http://www.scaffolds.entomology.cornell.edu/2000/7.24_insects.html
General
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association
www.mofga.org
U.S. Forest Service : New Woody Plant Seed Manual
www.nsl.fs.fed.us/nsl_wpsm.html
Chelsea Green - Books for Sustainable Living
www.chelseagreen.com
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