00:22:54 Eve Emshwiller: It is also the best tasting jelly for PB&J!
00:23:25 NAFEX Host: Leslie Wade: 😛
00:23:43 David Meyers: Can see it fine.
00:28:19 Allison Williams: Yes
00:28:36 Julie Gahn: Yes; met Terry at a SSAWG conference many years ago. (I’m from Oklahoma)
00:28:44 Barbara Harcourt: Have heard Terry several times
00:31:59 Eve Emshwiller: The taxonomist who merged the North American and European species also merged the South American species, S. peruviana, which is also like a tree, similar to the European. The fruit on S. peruviana is also larger.
00:34:27 Julie Gahn: How often do cuttings need watering?
00:40:20 Mike E.: I have ‘Adams’, and ‘York.’ I got a small ‘Bob Gordon’.’ How tall will it (and other determinants) get? (Adams and York get huge for me ..in Seattle)
00:40:25 Linda Gwenyn Hill Farm: Will it tolerate occasional spring prairie burns?
00:41:56 Julie Gahn: Along those lines – hedgerows; letting them grow up in wild blackberry hedges is an effective deer control method — harvesting becomes the challenge though. But good for promoting biodiversity.
00:42:26 Linda Gwenyn Hill Farm: Can Bob Gordon be managed with cutting to ground?
00:45:50 Dan Lefever: yes Bob Gordon’s claim to fame is cutting to the ground and getting bigger berries
00:52:54 Bradley Seay: I live in Maryland and often have stinkbugs on the fruit when harvesting. Please discuss the implications of the presence of this or other pests, particularly near or at harvest.
00:53:33 Dan Lefever: Terry Durham said the co-op got a USDA grant to assay and find cultivars with increased phytonutrient levels in N American cultivars. Do you know anything about this? Tried to let Terry know about a lab in Iowa that is doing nutrient studies and wants more crops to work with, but he never responded.
00:54:03 Linda Gwenyn Hill Farm: Thanks for this presentation. Have to leave unexpectedly.
00:57:59 Mark Wolbers: What are the hardiest, early flowering, determinant varieties?
00:59:52 Eric Bina: Can you press the berries for juice without destemming, or does it ruin the flavor?
01:02:10 Dan Lefever: good foliar micronutrient nutrition help to limit stinkbug problems. Venerate from Marrone Bio (a biological) helps control stinkbug. Super nutrition and soil microbiology will eliminate SWD issues
01:03:54 Dan Lefever: for SWD control lookup online Bob Wilt blueberries
01:05:43 iPhone: How many pounds or pints of berries from one bush?
01:06:25 michael s thompson: Perhaps i missed this.
01:06:53 Dan Lefever: are the glycosides in the seeds?
01:07:46 michael s thompson: quick thing on drying fruit please or did I miss this?.
01:08:53 Dan Lefever: how are you handling in row weeds, especially perennials
01:09:03 Dan Lefever: bird control?
01:14:29 Barbara Harcourt: yes what about those stink bugs?!
01:16:21 Dan Lefever: check out regenagalliance.com with Reginaldo Haslett-Marroquin’s system to produce Trerange brand poultry where he utilizes hazel and elderberry for silvo-pastured poultry in MN, and 7 other hubs around USA, needs much more hubs to make a 10 % dent into Tyson in 5 to ten years
01:47:40 Julie Gahn: I want to say thanks for holding these via Zoom. It’s hard to get to conferences when one has a small farm with livestock. We hope to increase income to afford help in the near future so that we all can get off farm occasionally.
01:48:51 Kris Klueg Heeter, NAFEX President: Julie, you are welcome. We, as the board, are loving these interest group meetups online!
01:53:40 Dan Lefever: will a monoculture of a clone pollinate? are any clones self pollinating
01:53:55 Julie Gahn: Regarding the seedlings, can you tell the adults apart? My recollection of the different varieties that Terry sold is that they have different characteristics – eg one had a drop head that protected from birds, one made larger berries, etc.
01:53:58 Eve Emshwiller: The mulch is thick enough under my few cultivars that the seedlings don’t come up there, but the birds sow lots of seedlings elsewhere. So I think I can tell them apart.
01:55:51 Jake: Thank you!
01:55:58 Julie Gahn: Thank you all for hosting this!
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