California Rare Fruit Growers
North San Diego County Chapter

Welcome to the North San Diego County Chapter of
California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc.

We are a place for like-minded people to share their passion and knowledge of growing rare and interesting fruiting plants, gardening experiences, and to learn from the experts about growing rare and subtropical fruits in our Southern California climate.

Our mission is to encourage and foster public and scientific interest, research, education in, and the preservation of rare fruit plants that have edible seeds, fruits, leaves, stems, or roots and are not commonly grown commercially.

Happy new year! A new year means it's time again to renew your CRFG chapter membership. As before, our dues are $10 per person for the calendar year, with only $5 for each additional member of the household. If you just joined us in the 4th quarter of 2024, your membership is valid throughout 2025, lucky you!

To renew online, click here. You can also bring cash or check to any chapter event and let the person at the sign-in table know you'd like to renew. Thank you for continuing to support our great programs and for contributing your rare fruit wisdom to our chapter!

It's time to renew

We need your help

Our chapter elections are coming up in April. We are looking for a member to lead the nominating committee this year. You will appoint 2-3 members to serve as the nominating committee, educate members about serving as a board member, and forward those who are interested to the committee. To fulfill the role, you must have been a previous member of a non-profit board.

The commitment is from Feb-April averaging 2-3 hours a week, with perhaps 6 hours a week in April. Cory Krell, who held this role for the last several years, has put together a "how-to" guide for the lead and the committee.

Please let me know if you are interested.

UPCOMING EVENTS

RECIPES

Usually seasonal (based on what's ripe in our area this month) or topical (based on what our chapter meeting presentation will be), usually the easiest recipes out there... from a variety of sources around the web. The goal is to help you easily use what you harvest or what you learn at our meetings, and enjoy delicious food! There's a new recipe posted each month.

SERVING OUR MISSION

We donate funds annually to the Horticulture program at Mira Costa Community College – our funds help support an intern with specific plant – related projects. To find out more about the program please visit our project here.

We continue to explore opportunities to support our community and welcome members’ ideas.

California Rare Fruit Growers organization has been around for over 50 years, beginning in 1968. Of note is that the founding ideas took place in North San Diego County.

Special Announcements -- Asian Citrus Psyllid

The County of San Diego has detected the citrus disease Huanglongbing (HLB) in the
Fallbrook, Valley Center, Oceanside, and Rancho Bernardo areas of San Diego.
CDFA declared a citrus quarantine area starting in February 2023 that has since been expanded.

Please visit the San Diego County government website or visit CaliforniaCitrusThreat.org to learn more.

What this means for us:
At this time, our Chapter’s position is that citrus plants, leaves, or foliage are not brought to any of our events, regardless of the location of the member’s citrus fruit trees. View our one-page Information Sheet.

We recently learned some good news relating to the Asian Citrus Psyllid in California – thank you, Dawne Dickinson for finding and sharing this information. The article is posted by Citrus Industry AgNet and leads with this: “Repeated evaluations throughout California showed 'a massive decline – greater than 70%' in HLB-spreading Asian citrus psyllid densities since the inception of a biological control program, a researcher reported recently.” The report is very positive regarding the fate of California citrus trees.

Quarantine Still In Effect

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