This page is a log of new additions.
Sometimes there is a flurry of growth spurts in this website which is great but makes it hard to keep track of all that’s been added since last you visited. Hopefully this page will help. YOU can make this website grow by adding your own stories and links! Send ’em along to share with us all!
7-Feb-2023
- Added a Figs Page under Crops>Fruit menu.
- Added Lancaster, PA’s Off The Beaten Path Nursery to the Nurseries page.
4-Feb-2023
- Added link to Alaska Fruit Trees nursery to the Nurseries page.
- Added a link to the Morton Arboretum’s Winter injury to trees and shrubs to the Techniques and Info page.
3-Feb-2023
- Added a link to the YouTube channel of the Agrarian Sharing Network of the Pacific Northwest to the Related Interest Groups page..
1-Feb-2023
- Added photos and several links to the Fruit Exploring – the basics page.
- Added a link to JSacadura’s YouTube channel on grafting to the Grafting page.
31-Dec-2022
- Uploaded and added a link to Compartmentalization of Decay in Trees.
12-Dec-2021
- Added link under Publications to video of Pioneer Axe making in Oakland Main in 1965 .
3-Mar-2021
- Added a page on Tree Labels under Resources>>Tools & Supplies menu.
- Added a plugin which allows PDF files to be displayed in regular posts, and began applying it to many of our PDF files.
28-Feb-2021
- Added a page on Pruning Saws.
- Added a page on the History of the MTCA.
23-Feb-2021
- Added this What’s New page to the HOME menu in addition to its former place above the Subjects list.
- Added a plugin that indicates when a link goes to an external page.
- Added an “In the News” page for found media articles relating to tree crops.
- Added a link to MOFGA’s new Scionwood and Fruit Trees page on our Grafting page.
- Added a link to the English translation of the Polish Kiwi site aktinidia.pl to the Nurseries List page.
17-Feb-2021
- Added new links onto the Grafting page, the Kiwi page, and the Apples page.
- Added links updating the events under the Events menu.
4-Feb-2021
- Added Black Creek Farm & Nursery and Musser Forests, Inc to the Nurseries List page.
23-Jan-2021
- Added a Descriptions of Cultivars page under the Crops menu, as a home for links for finding variety descriptions.
22-Jan-2021
- Added a page for Jack’s DIY wire holster for a Wheeler orchard saw holder.
- Added Vermont’s Sokoki Falls Farm to the Nurseries page.
- Added Alexis Ziegler’s book Perennial Foods book to the Publications menu.
21-Jan-2021
- Added a link to Indigenous Landscapes LLC on the Nurseries page.
- Added a link to an article about Floating fields tree and plant production on the Online Publications page.
6-Jan-21
- Added links to four articles in MOF&G on ramial chipped wood to the Ramial Chipped Wood page.
- Added a photo sent by Jack Kertesz of a bark graft done with toilet bowl wax and a bird perch decoy stick to the Grafting page.
4-Jan-21
- Added link to Eliza Greenman’s Mulberry Preamble on the Mulberry page.
- Added a link to the article and publication search service tandfonline , a database of over 4 million articles, to the Online Publications page.
- Added a link to the article Breeding rootstocks for tree fruit crops (pdf) to the Online Publications page.
- Added a link to the New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science to the Online Publications page.
- Created a page with Jack’s help about Rootstock Blowouts explaining how they happen, and added it to the Fruit Exploring menu.
1-Jan-2021
- Added a link to Tom Vigue’s excellent 2009 MOF&G article on growing kiwis in Maine on the Kiwi page.
- Added link to a Penn State Extension booklet on fruit problems on the Pests page.
- Added a link to the Walnuts page to a Penn State University article about landscaping around Walnut and Hickory trees.
12-Nov-2020
- Added E Clematis website link to the Honeyberry page.
8-Nov-2020
- Added a page for the I-95 Apple under the Fruit Exploring menu.
- Added a link to A Spring Grafting Primer by Roberta Bailey from the Spring 2011 MOF&G.
- Changed the name of the “Fruit Exploring 2020” page to “Waterville Post Office Apple” to reflect the pages content.
- Created a “Bangor Motel6 Discoveries” page based on a Facebook post and added it to the Fruit Exploring menu.
- Added Andy Roberts’ persimmon post on Facebook to the Persimmon page.
- Added Jesse Stevens’ 2020 Chestnut harvest pics from Facebook to the Chestnut page.
- Added a page of Misc. Apple Discoveries taken from the Facebook page.
- Added links to several pages at John Bunker’s Out On A Limb website and the Maine Heritage Orchard website on our Apples page.
29-Mar-2020.
- Created a Honeyberry page, listed it under the Crops>Fruit menu.
- Added Love Honeyberry Orchards and Honeyberry / Hascap Growing & Info fb page to the Honeyberry page.
28-Mar-2020.
- Created a new Pollinators page under the Web Resources menu.
- Added Wasps may be the biggest beneficiaries of “bee hotels” , Growing and Marketing Woody Species To Support Pollinators, Plants For Bees and Other Pollinators , and Raising native plants in nurseries: basic concepts | Treesearch to the Polinators page.
- Added Borers Schmorers and Tick repellent substances in the essential oil of Tanacetum vulgare. to the Pests page.
- Added Solving The Mystery Of The White Oak to the Acorns page.
- Added Medlaronia Polyculture to the Techniques & Info page.
27-Mar-2020.
- Added links on the Chestnut page to the national and Maine Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation , and to their news page .
- Added link on the Chestnut page to a YouTube video about work in Michigan on how to spread a virus that attacks chestnut blight. Dennis Fulbright – Biological Control of Chestnut Blight .
- Added The Fruit Nut to the Techniques & Info page.
- Added North American Fruit Explorers Facebook page and website to the Related Interest Organizations page.
- Added Native Plant Trust’s Go Botany website to the Related Interest Organizations page.
- Added Eliza Greenman’s Unconventional stories from an apple farmer to the Techniques & Info page.
- Added Growing Trees from Seed: A Practical Guide to Growing Native Trees, Vines, and Shrubs book review to the Publications page.
- Added Silvopasture blog to the Related Interest Organizations page.
- Added Trees and Shrubs for Agroforestry, Tree and Shrub Recommendations (pdf) to the Publications page.
- Added paw paw comments from the NAFEX Facebook page to the Paw Paw page.
- Add links to Northwoods Nursery and Trees of Antiquity Nursery to the Nurseries page.
- Added Fruit Tree Terms and References to the Techniques & Info page.
26-Mar-2020.
- Added Notes on Grafting seals to the Grafting page.
24-Mar-2020.
- Added Rooting Dormant Cuttings to the Techniques and Info page.
23-Mar-2020.
- Added Uncommon Fruit: Observations from Carandale Farm link to the Tree Crop Related Links page.
- Added Report of the Iowa State Horticultural Society for the year 1909 to the Publications page.
- Added a new Pests page and listed USA-NPN Pest Forecast as its first link. Other pest-related links existing now at the site will migrate to this page eventually.
- Added Eastern Filbert Blight to, and moved Utah Pests Fact Sheets to the Pests page.
- Added NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center to the Tree Crop Related Links page.
21-Mar-2020.
- Added Acorns as Food: History, use, recipes, and bibliography and Use of Acorns for Food in California: Past, Present, Future both by David Bainbridge, and Acorns: Eat Some, Plant Some to the Acorns Page.
20-Mar-2020.
- There have been so many good grafting links come my way during this grafting season that I moved the grafting section that had been living on the Techniques and Info page to now live on its own Grafting page. Some tremendously educational pages and videos about selecting, storing, and grafting scions.
- Added a link to the Grafting page under the Web Resources menu.
- Added this “What’s New Here? page.
- Added Wild Pollinators of Eastern Apple Orchards and Apple borer image UP CLOSE! and Bagging growing apples instead of using sprays to the Apples page.
- Added Peterson’s Paw Paws to the Paw Paw page.
19-Mar-2020.
- Added several new links to the Ramial Chipped Wood page and the Techniques and Info page.
Earlier in March-2020.
- Added pages for Apples, Grapes, Kiwis, Quince as some specific info arrives, assuming more will come later.
- Added as page for Ramial Chipped Wood since so many articles had arrived on the subject.
- Finally got around to creating a page for the Edgewood/Stillings tour arranged by Aaron Parker in June. The page could still use some photo captions if anyone can say more about the subject of the un-captioned photos.
7-May-2020.
- This website re-organized in WordPress format , adopting much of the info from the previous incarnation that had begun in 2006.
