California Rare Fruit Growers to Hold Tasting June 6 at Cal Poly

SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s Horticulture and Crop Science Department, the California Rare Fruit Growers organization and the Dave Wilson Nursery are sponsoring a fruit tasting at 1 p.m. Saturday, June 6, at the Cal Poly Crops Unit.

The public is invited to the free tasting event, which will feature 30 to 35 fresh fruits, including cherries, blueberries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and plums. There will also be pluots, a plum-apricot cross, for which Dave Wilson Nursery is the exclusive licensor.

Tom Spellman and Ed Laivo of Dave Wilson Nursery, which is based just east of Modesto, will give a short talk, and everyone attending will have the chance to taste the fresh-picked, tree-ripe fruit.

The Dave Wilson Nursery, a major national provider of backyard and commercial fruit trees, will provide all the fruit. This is the nursery’s 16th annual Traveling Fruit Tasting Program. No fruit or fruit trees will be for sale at this special event.

Fruit Science students and members of the California Rare Fruit Growers will be on hand to answer questions and assist with the slicing and distribution of the fresh fruit.

The Crops Unit is on Highland Drive at Mount Bishop Road, just west of the railroad tracks. Fruit tasting is scheduled to run until 3 p.m. Reservations are not necessary, and parking permits are not required.

For more information, contact Cal Poly Professor Emeritus Joe Sabol at 805-544-1056 or jsabol@calpoly.edu, or Mike Thomlinson with Dave Wilson Nursery at 209-988-9770 or mike@davewilson.com.

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