{"id":2003,"date":"2026-04-29T16:01:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/?p=2003"},"modified":"2026-04-29T16:01:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T20:01:21","slug":"twilight-meetings-may-7-and-8-planning-for-orchard-success-brookfield-and-east-dorset-vt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/04\/29\/twilight-meetings-may-7-and-8-planning-for-orchard-success-brookfield-and-east-dorset-vt\/","title":{"rendered":"Twilight meetings May 7 and 8- PLANNING FOR ORCHARD SUCCESS (Brookfield and East Dorset, VT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Register here for one or both meetings, <a href=\"https:\/\/na.eventscloud.com\/ereg\/index.php?eventid=875966&amp;\">Registration Link<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>PLANNING FOR ORCHARD SUCCESS: PEST, POLLINATOR, AND CROP MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Star Grazer Farm (Liberty Orchard)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2481 West St, Brookfield, VT 05036<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday May 7, 4:00 -6:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mad Tom Orchard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2615 Mad Tom Road, East Dorset VT 05253<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday May 8, 4:00-6:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Join the Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association and the University of Vermont Extension at two hands-on field meetings at two of Vermont\u2019s many beautiful apple orchards. We will learn about each farm, farm funding opportunities, see and discuss sprayer equipment, farm approaches to PYO, and discuss pest and pollinator management at each farm.<\/p>\n<p>Star Grazer Farm (Liberty Orchard): This orchard transitioned to new ownership about 5 years ago. We\u2019ll learn about the farm\u2019s participation in recent on-farm bee pollinator research and see and talk about two types of orchard sprayers.<\/p>\n<p>Mad Tom Orchard: This farmer led meeting will spotlight how orchard crops, management, weather station and spray equipment, markets, and customer relations have evolved in 85+ years of business.<\/p>\n<p>Pesticide applicator credits available at each meeting location:\u202f1 credit for categories 1A, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.\u202f Certified Crop Adviser Credits pending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/files\/2026\/04\/FINAL2026-planning-for-orchard-success-002.pdf\">FINAL2026-planning-for-orchard-success (002).pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Register here for one or both meetings, Registration Link PLANNING FOR ORCHARD SUCCESS: PEST, POLLINATOR, AND CROP MANAGEMENT DECISION MAKING Star Grazer Farm (Liberty Orchard) 2481 West St, Brookfield, VT 05036 Thursday May 7, 4:00 -6:30 and Mad Tom Orchard 2615 Mad Tom Road, East Dorset VT 05253 Friday May 8, 4:00-6:30 Join the Vermont &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2026\/04\/29\/twilight-meetings-may-7-and-8-planning-for-orchard-success-brookfield-and-east-dorset-vt\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twilight meetings May 7 and 8- PLANNING FOR ORCHARD SUCCESS (Brookfield and East Dorset, VT)<\/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-2003","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-wj","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","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=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2005,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/2005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}