The Northern Hardy Fruit Evaluation Project orchard will be the site of a tour and orchard-equipment program during the NDSU Carrington Research Extension Center’s annual field day set for July 20.

The field day program is scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. with coffee and a welcome. The fruit project tour is set to depart at 9:30 a.m. and return to the main area at noon. Lunch will be served at noon. No preregistration is needed.

The fruit project tour will be led by Kathy Wiederholt, Carrington Research Extension Center fruit project manager. The tour also will include an equipment demonstration and presentation by TrimTab Agriculture, Sioux City, Iowa.

The Northern Hardy Fruit Evaluation Project was established in 2006 to introduce and demonstrate alternative, economically viable fruits that will grow in North Dakota. The project features demonstration plantings of University of Saskatchewan cherries and haskaps, as well as apples, aronia, red and black currants, grapes, honeyberries/haskaps, juneberries and plums.

The fruit project tour is one of several tours happening during the center’s annual field day activities that day. Other tours will be on agronomy, beef production and organic/sustainable agriculture.

For more information on the field day tours, contact the center at 701-652-2951.

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