This is an announcement for the beginning of a series of meetings to run through the upcoming strawberry season concerning the principles of successful strawberry cultivation on the Central Coast of California. The first of these meetings will be a review of strawberry transplanting and will take place at the ALBA Rural Development Center on 1700 Old Stage Road on October 8. Agenda is here:
http://cesantacruz.ucanr.edu/files/170337.pdf
Further meetings are to follow and should take place more or less every month at various locations around the Central Coast and will concern topics of a timely nature in strawberries. So for example there will be a meeting on lygus bugs in April or May, fertility management in February, irrigation in March, pathogens in March and spider mites in June. If we get a new bug coming our way, why we'll have a meeting about that too. We have the good fortune to count with a first class group of academics and agricultural professionals from UC Cooperative Extension, the University of California and other industry associated organizations and thus have the privilege to extend some of the best information around in a language everybody can understand.
Depending on who is presenting, some of the meetings and presentations will be held in Spanish with translation to English, while others will be in English with translation to Spanish. The emphasis is that these meetings are open and accessible to all of you involved in the industry of producing strawberries on the Central Coast.
So just be aware that over the next ten months this series of meetings will be taking place and to stay apprised of when they are coming about.
I am really looking forward to putting on these meetings with all of you!
Mark
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