{"id":4509,"date":"2015-05-29T13:56:29","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T13:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nnyagdev.org\/?p=4509"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:04:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:04:39","slug":"juneberry-partnership-workshop-june-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/2015\/05\/29\/juneberry-partnership-workshop-june-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneberry Education Partnership, Workshop June 12"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Juneberry<\/a>
Juneberry specialist and NNYADP Juneberry Nursery Project co-leader Dr. Michael Burgess, SUNY Plattsburgh, examines an Amelanchier cutting.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Funding from the farmer-led Northern New York Agricultural Development Program has established one of the world\u2019s largest Juneberry research nurseries at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in Willsboro, NY.<\/p>\n

Research leaders\u00a0Michael B. Burgess, an Amelanchier<\/i>\u00a0biologist with the Department of Biological Sciences\u00a0at\u00a0SUNY Plattsburgh, and\u00a0Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Willsboro Research Farm Manager\u00a0Michael H. Davis\u00a0started with and are continuing to build a living collection of\u00a0Amelanchier<\/i> that includes all commercially available cultivars, wild-collected novel fruit cultivars, and North American diploid Amelanchier <\/i>species.<\/p>\n

Seeds from 8 Amelanchier species: A. alnifolia, A. arborea, A. canadensis, A. gaspensis, A. humilis,\u00a0<\/i>A. laevis, A. sanguinea<\/i>, and A. spicata, <\/i>collected from across the Northeast, the Gaspe Peninsula and\u00a0southern Quebec, were cold stratified for 2-3 months and successfully germinated in the SUNY Plattsburgh greenhouse. Seedlings were transplanted to the Willsboro Research Farm nursery. The first substantive crop of fruit is expected in 2017.<\/p>\n

The Cornell Willsboro Research Farm will have the most taxonomically diverse living collection of\u00a0North American\u00a0Amelanchier<\/i>\u00a0species and fruit cultivars in the world. Replicated trials at the nursery will\u00a0support development of a vibrant juneberry fruit industry.<\/p>\n

To support grower entry into the Juneberry market, the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm\u00a0Amelanchier <\/i>nursery will provide evidence-based resources and best management practices\u00a0for Juneberry production, including\u00a0plant establishment techniques,\u00a0fertility requirements,\u00a0planting densities,\u00a0organic production, and\u00a0weed, insect, and disease control strategies.<\/p>\n

Burgess and Davis have partnered with Jim Ochterski, a leading Juneberry\u00a0proponent and educator in NY\u2019s Finger Lakes region. They offer resources and workshops\u00a0for growers and those interested in producing and marketing juneberries.<\/p>\n

Ochterski will be the featured speaker at a June 12 Juneberry Production Workshop in Ovid, NY. The workshop is organized by Seneca County Cornell Cooperative Extension. Click here for details on this in-depth introduction to juneberry cultivation.<\/a><\/span>\u00a0The workshop also includes a field tour to Juneberry Farm, owned by Guy Lister, in Willard, NY.<\/p>\n

Click here for the NNYADP Juneberry Nursery flier <\/a><\/span>that Seneca County CCE is including in the workshop packets. Thank you, all!<\/p>\n

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Funding from the farmer-led Northern New York Agricultural Development Program has established one of the world\u2019s largest Juneberry research nurseries at the Cornell Willsboro Research Farm in Willsboro, NY. Research leaders\u00a0Michael B. Burgess, an Amelanchier\u00a0biologist with the Department of Biological Sciences\u00a0at\u00a0SUNY Plattsburgh, and\u00a0Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station Willsboro Research Farm Manager\u00a0Michael H. Davis\u00a0started with and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4509","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-press-releases","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4509"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4521,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4509\/revisions\/4521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nnyagdev.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}