UOG Avocado Production Workshop Flyer (Photo courtesy of University of Guam)
Tips and techniques for bountiful avocado production will be the topic of an upcoming public workshop being offered by the University of Guam’s Land Grant researchers and extension agents. The workshop is free and open to the first 25 participants to register.
Teresa Cruz, left, and Katherine Day practice the propagation technique of air layering at a fruit production workshop on March 9 at the University of Guam’s agricultural research station in Yigo. The university will be hosting an Avocado Production Workshop on Saturday, June 1. (Photo courtesy of University of Guam)
University of Guam agriculture majors Charlene Badajos and Francisco “Kiko” Blaz harvest eggfruit during a fruit production workshop held on March 9 at UOG’s agricultural research station in Yigo. The university will be hosting an Avocado Production Workshop on Saturday, June 1. (Photo courtesy of University of Guam)
UOG Avocado Production Workshop Flyer (Photo courtesy of University of Guam)
Avocado Production Workshop
Time: 9 a.m. – Noon
Date: Saturday, June 1
Location: Yigo Research & Education Center (Triton Farm)
Participants will learn from UOG extension horticulturalists how to propagate avocado trees by grafting, about avocado tree scions that are available from UOG, how to care for an avocado tree, and how to market avocado to the public. Participants will also take a tour of avocado trees on the Triton Farm property and learn about the fruit’s nutritional value.
The workshop will be the last to be offered under UOG’s Beginning Farmer & Rancher Development Program grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The grant has made multiple workshops possible over the past four years on the production of hot peppers, papaya, mango, honey, eggfruit, peanut butter fruit, mulberry, and Surinam cherries. Guidance and publications on these topics can be obtained by emailing cnasteam@triton.uog.edu.
To register, contact Glenda Hall at (671) 735-2062 or ghall@triton.uog.edu.
