Central Coast Chapter Meetings & Other Events
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August Meeting: Saturday, August 9th, 2025
Linn Farms
Aaron Linn will be our host, and will give us a presentation and lead us on a tour of the Linn farm.
This meeting is open to the public. Bring your friends!
Restrooms will be available.
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Bring: chairs, water, and shoes for the walking tour.
Location: 6275 Santa Rosa Creek Rd, Cambria
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Parking: Plenty of parking on site. There will be CRFG signs to guide you.
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From Linn's website:
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"Since 1979, Linn's has been growing crops and creating food products. When they opened their first restaurant in 1988 in San Luis Obispo, followed only months later by the Cambria restaurant in 1989, their farm became more directly involved in supplying products to be served to restaurant customers. In addition to the many crops they grew, they built a 10,000 square foot greenhouse, which allowed them to radically augment their fresh produce offerings. Truly, Linn's was “Farm-to-Table” before that phrase was popularized."
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For more information about Linn's, please visit Linn's website:
Schedule
12:30-1:00: Set up crew.
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1:00 - 1:30 pm: Socializing, refreshments.
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1:30 pm: Meeting begins
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3:30 pm: Clean up
Other Future Chapter Meetings & Events
Please note that these future meetings are subject to change. Recheck this page closer to the date of each event.
More information about these events, including address details and times, will be provided here closer to each event.
September Meeting: Templeton Market, September 13, 2025 - Saturday
Open to the public.
More details, including location & times, will be listed here closer to the date of this event.
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October Meeting: Global Family Farm, October 11, 2025 - Saturday
Open to the public.
More details, including location & times, will be listed here closer to the date of this event.
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Orchard Work Day: November 1st, 2025 - Saturday 9 am - Noon
Open to the public.
CRFG Demonstration Orchard
Cal Poly Campus
Help clean up the orchard!
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November Meeting: LeFort Organic Farms, November 8, 2025 - Saturday
Open to the public.
Le Fort's Organic Farms is a certified organic farm in Creston, California which produces free range eggs, carrots, summer squash, eggplant, basil & more .
More details, including location & times, will be listed here closer to the date of this event.
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December Meeting: Annual Holiday Potluck and Plant Exchange, December 13, 2025 - Saturday
Members Only. Join CRFG to attend!
More details, including location & times, will be listed here closer to the date of this event.
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CRFG Demonstration Orchard Workdays
Be sure to check here the morning of each workday for rescheduling or cancellations.
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Orchard cleanups usually involve removing weeds, spreading wood chips, pruning trees, raking leaves, mending fences, cleaning the kiosk, reorganizing tools in the tool shed. It's also a good opportunity to chat with your fellow CRFGers, learning and sharing helpful hints for growing your fruiting plants.
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Sat Mar 1st, 2025 9am - 12pm (cleanup for Annual Propagation Mtg)
Sat July 5th, 2025 9am - 12pm (cleanup for Annual Fruit Tasting Mtg)
Sat Nov 1st, 2025 9am - 12pm (end-of-year cleanup)
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We Have Pheromone Loops For Sale!!!
Pheromone loops are available and are plentiful! Codling moths are key pests of apples and pears. Pheromone loops deceive the male moth, thereby helping to disrupt the mating cycle. Place 2 to 3 loops in the top third of your apple and pear trees. Petals should be about 90% off and small fruit is setting before you loop your trees!
Please contact Terri Monell at 805-546-8981 (landline) or 805-440-5818 (cell) if you are interested. Terri is available to sell loops ONLY until April 24th and then again from May 1st on.
Meetings
Our meetings are usually held on the second Saturday of the month, with the exception of the February meeting which is held on the fourth Saturday. (The February meeting is the annual scion exchange and grafting instruction.) In general our group gathers initially for refreshments and socializing, followed by the meeting. This is not always the case though, so check this web page or our newsletter for details on each meeting.
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Most of our meetings are open to the public. We encourage the public to join us and learn with us!
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Please read our "meeting manners" below prior to attending. No pets at any meeting, please.
Our Best CRFG Manners While Visiting Homes, Nurseries, Growers, etc.
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We never bring pets to meetings/tours and we never even ask if we may!
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We do our best to use public facilities or our own restroom before the meeting.
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We do our best not to ask to go inside the hosts’ home.
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We never pick fruit, flowers, foliage, weeds, seed pods and we never even ask.
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We do our best to car pool and park with great respect to our host and the neighborhood.
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We never talk when our host is talking. We do our best to stay up close when given a tour.
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We never “take over” the tour and tell everyone how we do it at our home!!
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We have thoughtful questions but try not to ask questions that embarrass our host.
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We do our best to help our host feel good, feel appreciated. We clean up our mess.
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We stay on the path, with our host …and never go walking around on our own unless given permission by the host.
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At the end of the tour, we make a special effort to thank the host. We “gather up” and have some sort of “closure” to the tour.
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We even write thank you notes when we get home, especially if we asked a lot of questions, were impressed, were surprised, were treated well. We write thank you notes even when we are not the leader.