Event Details
Date
August 13, 2016
Time
1pm-5pm
Location
Stop 1 at Morgan Fruit Farm
3905 Warner Rd
Marion, NY 14505
Cost
This event is free.
Host
Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture
Pre-Registration Deadline: August 10, 2016
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Fruit Tour for Spanish-speaking Employees
August 13, 2016
The CCE LOF team is organizing the first fruit summer tour for Spanish-speaking employees to be held in Wayne County from 1pm until 6:30pm on Saturday August 13, 2016. At each of the 4 tour stops participants will be hosted by a Spanish-speaking farmer or employee who has significant orchard experience by managing a modern apple orchard and/or a nursery operation. The tour will cover aspects related to orchard establishment, training, pruning, pest management, orchard mechanization, tractor safety, on-farm nursery production, and fruit quality at harvest. The .pdf below contains the tour agenda in English & Spanish. For more details on tour topics please check the .pdf Spanish Summer Tour Program Details below.
The tour is FREE for your employees but a pre-registration is required by Wednesday August 10. For registration, contact Kim R. Hazel krh5@cornell.edu, (585) 798-4265, ext. 26. For questions, contact Mario Miranda Sazo mrm67@cornell.edu, (315) 719-1318.
Available below is a pdf that highlights the educational roll extension has been providing for the Spanish speaking employees of farms in the recent years.
Program in English & Spanish (PDF; 850KB)
Extension Education for Spanish speaking employees (PDF; 4970KB)
Spanish Summer Tour Program Details (PDF; 37KB)
