{"id":1870,"date":"2025-01-06T15:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/?p=1870"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T19:40:42","slug":"february-21-129th-vtfga-uvm-fruit-program-annual-meeting-and-winter-webinar-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2025\/01\/06\/february-21-129th-vtfga-uvm-fruit-program-annual-meeting-and-winter-webinar-series\/","title":{"rendered":"February 21: 129th VTFGA \/ UVM Fruit Program Annual Meeting and Winter Webinar series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year:<\/p>\n<p>I have news of two exciting educational opportunities coming up in the next few months. First, the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association will hold their 129th (!) annual meeting in conjunction with the UVM Fruit Program on <strong>Friday, February 21<\/strong> at the American Legion Hall, 49 Wilson Rd., Middlebury, VT. The agenda and registration form is located at <a href=\"https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/25uvmvtfgaagenda\">https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/25uvmvtfgaagenda<\/a>, online registration (preferred) is at: <a href=\"https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/25uvmvtfgamtg\">https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/25uvmvtfgamtg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Second, we will again be running a series of winter lunchtime webinars this season in conjunction with our partners at the New England land grant universities and Eastern New York Commercial Horticulture Program. More information on those can be found at: <a href=\"https:\/\/ag.umass.edu\/fruit\/news-events\/northeast-extension-fruit-consortium\">https:\/\/ag.umass.edu\/fruit\/news-events\/northeast-extension-fruit-consortium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See you soon.<\/p>\n<p>Terry<\/p>\n<p><strong>__<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Terence Bradshaw<\/strong> <strong>(he\/him)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Associate Professor, Specialty Crops<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Chair<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cals\/pss\">Dept of Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment<\/a><br \/>\n(formerly Plant and Soil Science)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cals\">College of Agriculture and Life Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n<p>University of Vermont<br \/>\n117\/210 \u2013 Jeffords Hall | 63 Carrigan Dr<br \/>\nBurlington, VT 05405<\/p>\n<p>(802) 922-2591 | tbradsha<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/pssbradshaw\">https:\/\/go.uvm.edu\/pssbradshaw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/extension\/commercial-horticulture\">UVM Commercial Horticulture<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/\">UVM Fruit Blog<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/cals\/hrec\">Horticulture Research and Education Center<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teams.microsoft.com\/l\/chat\/0\/0?users=tbradsha@uvm.edu\">Message me on Teams<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/president\/our-common-ground\">UVM\u2019s Our Common Ground Values:<\/a><br \/>\nRespect | Integrity | Innovation | Openness | Justice | Responsibility<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uvm.edu\/\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/files\/2025\/01\/image001-1.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1871\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/files\/2025\/01\/image001-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"image001-1-png\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1871\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>UVM is subject to the Vermont Public Records Act and communications to and from this email address, including attachments, are subject to disclosure unless exempted under the Act or otherwise applicable law.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year: I have news of two exciting educational opportunities coming up in the next few months. First, the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association will hold their 129th (!) annual meeting in conjunction with the UVM Fruit Program on Friday, February 21 at the American Legion Hall, 49 Wilson Rd., Middlebury, VT. The agenda &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2025\/01\/06\/february-21-129th-vtfga-uvm-fruit-program-annual-meeting-and-winter-webinar-series\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">February 21: 129th VTFGA \/ UVM Fruit Program Annual Meeting and Winter Webinar series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Terence Bradshaw","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/tbradsha\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-ua","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1872,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870\/revisions\/1872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}