Horticulturalist Robert Bevacqua of the University of Guam teaches community members about banana propagation at a workshop on Feb. 12, 2022. Bevacqua will be leading a beginning farmers workshop on March 9 focused on growing mulberry, Surinam cherry, eggfruit, and peanut butter fruit trees and uses for their fruits. (Photo courtesy of University of Guam)
Gardeners, farmers, and residents are invited to a free public workshop to learn about four lesser grown fruit crops in Guam that can be grown sustainably and without the use of pesticides. The four trees are Surinam cherry (pitanga), eggfruit (chesa), peanut butter fruit, and mulberry.
Promising Fruit Trees for Guam Workshop
Time: 9 a.m. – Noon
Date: Saturday, March 9
Location: UOG Yigo Research & Education Center
The Promising Fruit Trees for Guam Workshop will discuss how these four fruit trees are best propagated, how to care for them, and uses for their fruit. The class will include a one-mile walking tour at the agricultural experiment station to see plantings of each tree type. Each participant will have the opportunity to take home potted seedlings of the featured trees.
This is a Land Grant workshop, being offered through the USDA-funded Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program at the University of Guam’s Western Pacific Tropical Research Center. It will be led by UOG horticulturist Dr. Robert Bevacqua. The course will also be facilitated by four agriculture students who each spent a semester researching and propagating one of the featured crops through the USDA NextGen grant–funded COMPASS program.
The workshop is free and open to the first 25 participants to register. Email Jamilee Cruz at cruzj15520@gotritons.uog.edu to register.
This workshop is supported, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food & Agriculture.
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