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Farmers Almanac
 Oct. 15, 2011 Grangetto's Farm & Garden Supply from 10 am to 12 pm at 1105 W. Mission Ave., Escondido, 92025, for an informative workshop on collection, design and utilization of rainwater harvesting. Free - no need to register. Questions call Jennifer at 760 745-4671x215. Oct. 18, 2011 "Effective Use of Pesticides in Ornamental Plant Production" at San Marcos Community Center, 3 Civic Center Drive, San Marcos, 92069. 7:30 am - 11:30 am (English Session) 11:30 am - 12:30 pm Lunch provided for both sessions 12:30 pm - 4:30 pm (Spanish Session) Continuing Education Units applied for: DPR (3.5 "Other", 0.5 "Laws"), CCA (3) English Registration Form Spanish Registration FormOct. 20, 2011 San Diego County Flower & Plant Association's Living Plant Growers Meeting at Thompson Rose Co., Inc., 949 Cassou Rd., San Marcos, 92069. Click here for details! Oct. 22, 2010 Grangetto's Farm & Garden Supply - Learn how and when to prepare your trees for winter dormancy from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm at 1105 W. Mission Ave., Escondido 92025. Questions call Jennifer at 760 745-4671x215. Nov. 6-9, 2011 Western Growers 86th Annual Meeting at The Grand Del Mar, San Deigo. Offering 5 great workshops this year. Visit the website for more information. http://www.wgannualmeeting.com/ Â Please visit the CfAHR Website for exciting news on an educational program recently launched by UCCE and CfAHR. Thank you |
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A Win-Win for Small County Farms and the Environment
County Collects Used Motor Oil and Filters for Recycling at No Charge
Just one gallon of used motor oil can contaminate up to one million gallons of water. Now there is no reason to run that risk. Small farms in the unincorporated areas can stop oil from washing down storm drains into the ocean and protect their own farmland by taking advantage of a free recycling program for used motor oil and oil filters. The County's Department of Public Works is currently collecting these items through November 4.
"Last year, the program collected 4,683 gallons of used motor oil and 716 used motor oil filters from farmers ranging from Fallbrook to Boulevard," said County Board of Supervisors Chairman Bill Horn. "As a rancher-farmer myself, I know how these items can pile up if you don't get rid of them. You don't want barrels of used oil leaking onto your property and hurting the environment."
Interestingly enough, a used oil filter can retain up to 11 ounces of oil even after draining for 24 hours. Two gallons of recycled oil can generate enough electricity to run the average household for almost 24 hours. Used oil is easily recycled and can be used again and again for a number of applications. The steel in used filters is often recycled into rebar for construction projects.
The collection process for the County's program is easy. Farmers and small agricultural interests can call 1-800-449-7587 to schedule their free pickup or email atyourdoor@wm.com. No one needs to be home when the materials are collected, and seniors and disabled residents can ask for in-home assistance in gathering and packing up the recyclables for collection.
The program is funded by a grant from the California Department of Resources, Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle). The County can also help with questions about other recyclables. Call the County's Recycling Hotline at 1-877-R-1-EARTH (1-887-713-2784) or visit www.WasteFreeSD.org.
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Classified ads are FREE to members and run for three months unless otherwise specified. Ad text should be submitted no later than the 25th of the month to the Association office for the upcoming publication.
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Sincerely,
Jan Berry
San Diego County Flower & Plant Association
5600 Avenida Encinas, #108
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Phone: 760 431-2572
Email: info@flowerandplant.org
Website: www.flowerandplant.org
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Important - New Statewide Export Certificate Fees Proposed The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has proposed a $6.00 fee to be assessed on each export certificate issued by our inspectors. The new fee will be applied to Federal Phytosanitary Certificates (phytos), State Phytosanitary Certificates (state phytos), Certificates of Quarantine Compliance (CQCs) and shipments sent using a "master certificate." Certificates issued for movement of plants and other commodities within California, such as Glassy Winged Sharpshooter certificates, will not be charged this fee. This fee is expected to go into effect within six months, possibly in March. CDFA plays a critical role in California's statewide pest prevention system, which allows us to issue the shipping certificates described above to the meet the import requirements of the states and countries receiving your agricultural products. This fee is being proposed in response to a $10 million cut to CDFA's budget this fiscal year and a larger cut next fiscal year. We Need Your Help The proposed regulation requires county agricultural commissioners to collect, process and remit the fees to CDFA. Unless fees are paid through the Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance and Tracking (PCIT)* system, this will result in additional work and expense for our department. The proposal allows counties to include a surcharge to recover their costs, but we want to avoid this entirely. Using PCIT to collect all certificate fees not only allows our customers to avoid an additional county surcharge, it allows us to focus on pest prevention. Many growers are already utilizing this new method of fee collection, which offers the following benefits: - Eliminates the need for trust fund accounts - ask for your account to be closed.
- PCIT accounts can be funded quickly for the precise amount needed.
- Does away with the need for cash or checks in the field.
- Frees our inspectors to focus on customer service, instead of handling payments.
- Provides secure access to transaction history 7/24.
- Reduces paper handling and storage requirements.
- Avoids additional fees as described above.
Don't wait, please call Deputy Agricultural Commissioner Jim Wynn at 760-752-4710 to get acquainted with PCIT. Master Permits Under the proposed regulation, growers shipping under a "master certificate" must maintain records and submit payments directly to CDFA on an annual basis. Written Comment Period Closes October 17, 2011 There is still time to submit written comments, request public hearings or to arrange industry meetings to discuss the issues and concerns involving the proposed fee. No public meetings are planned unless a written request is received by CDFA by October 2, 2011. Complete information regarding the proposal can be found at: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/phpps/regs_sch-of-charges.html. CDFA needs to hear from you directly, at the above website. * The Phytosanitary Certificate Issuance and Tracking (PCIT) system is a web-based software program developed by the United States Department of Agriculture to streamline the process of issuing export certificates. The system is already widely used for issuing Federal Phytosanitary Certificates (phytos) in San Diego and other counties and has proven to be much more efficient than the old "paper" method. There is no cost for using this system, and it allows San Diego County to keep its costs down and its inspectors in the field instead of the office.
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President's Message
Summer is over and fall is in the air. Children are back to school and vacations are ending for most of us. This is the time to get back to business. Check the efficiency of the heating systems and button down the hatches to get ready for the winter. On the sales ends it is time to find homes for all the beautiful product that is in our place of business. To assist in this we have two guest speakers coming to the annual LPGA meeting on October 20th. Chris Hopkins of Orchard Supply will be discussing what makes a consumer decide to buy and how to stay competitive in this market, while Lisa Takao-McCall of Takao Nursery will be discussing "Get Real Marketing", marketing with a personal touch. The meeting will be held at Thompson Rose with a tour given at 5:00pm. Be sure to join us. This is a wonderful opportunity to network with other people in the industry.
On another note, while we are focusing on trying to increase sales, the government is trying to increase regulations. The latest on the pipeline is E-Verify. While no one is certain exactly when and what it will look like when it passes, there is a general feeling that it will pass in some form soon. For those who have not heard of E-Verify, this is a mandatory verification of legal status of the employees to allow them to work.
Currently the bill that is moving through has no consideration for the unique employment issues of agriculture and the need for a viable worker program that would help us secure a reliable work force in the future. The biggest area that you can help is to be sure that your representative knows of your concerns and issues. Whether you e-mail, send a letter, call, or even make a personal appearance to their office, it is important to do something. Recently we e-mailed out a sample letter that would assist everyone in getting the message heard in Washington. If you have not received this e-mail you can find the sample letter on the left column of our home page www.flowerandplant.org. The louder our voice is, the better we are heard.
Darrell Ades - A & G Nurseries
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Pest Advisor
Wow! October is here nocking and telling us to wake up and be ready for winter. So much to do, so little time, and even less money to make it all happen. What's new?
New product from Syngenta called Palladium makes it's timely entrance to our market. Hey, new is good! Palladium is an interesting fungicide. It brings an older and a newer chemistry together in an attempt to control most plant pathogens. How interesting! Have we heard this cure-all message before? This one, Palladium, is a mixture of Fludioxonil (read Medallion, MOA 12) and Cyprodinil (the new, MOA 9). This brings two modes of action (MOA), contact and plant penetrator. Did I say that right, I'm never one for politically correct? Palladium has a 12-hour REI and that wonderful Caution signal word. It is formulated as a WDG (water dissolvable granular) in two-pound bottles with a cute measuring and dispensing thingy. You get to prevent and somewhat cure things like Botrytis, Rhizoctonia, Alternaria and more - including powdery mildew fungi with only 2-6 oz. per 100 gallons spray. I've read that it doesn't burn or effect negatively flowers in bloom. Could be perfect for that last application before harvest, when the product heads to the cooler and long shelf life.
New products challenge our conceptions. I like to play with the product to illuminate issues. I know Dr. Ann Chase played with Palladium a lot, with marvelous and interesting results. This Palladium, for example, should not be applied to soil or roots, might burn them! It does funny things to some geraniums too. So please be sure, as always, to read carefully and follow labels.
New may be good but I never get it right the first time. A friendly grower wanted a plant issue solution that Palladium was perfect for. She came to the store and we took a look at the price in our computer and she ran to a lesser expensive product. You see, it comes in a two-pound container and somehow our computer system doubled the price. That is now fixed for sure and I need to back-tract with my grower who hopefully is still my friend.
Please talk with your Pest Control Advisor and minimize new problems that new products might introduce. Let's do it right!
David Pattison, PCA, CaCCA
Crop Production Services
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Ask the Advisor
 Ever Thought of Taking a Picture My daughters are pretty adept at taking pictures with their phones or camera and posting them on Facebook or sending them to a friend via their phone. In fact, while we were on vacation and waiting to be seated at a restaurant I noticed that there was a big birthday party inside and the staff was carrying several platters of skinned, baked potatoes and they were covered with rosemary stems for flavor. I mentioned to one of my daughters that they probably took cuttings right from the plants we were standing next to. I stroked the rosemary so she could enjoy the aroma, and so that she could see why they used it in many food dishes. My daughter was fascinated and took a closer look at the rosemary plant. In doing so, she found a walking stick insect  hiding among the stems. As you would suspect, I though that was cool! Upon closer inspection, we found lots of walking sticks of varying sizes on the rosemary. What's important to note though is that she immediately took out her phone and took a bunch of pictures. In addition, she immediately sent them to one of her friends who immediately text her back with dozens of questions. That certainly kept the family busy while waiting to be seated. What's important about this story is that if my daughter can do that, why aren't you doing that? I am surprised at how few pictures have been sent to me by growers. I get a lot more from my friends and neighbors who are interested in some bug they just found than I do from the ornamental plant industry. From my experience, the vast majority of the photos that I have been sent are photos of very common insects and pests, easily identified. There is another reason to take a quick photo and send it. There have been instances where a very serious pest has been moved from a facility to our office that should never have been moved. If we want to do that, we need a permit from the state of California to move the pest(s). For example, I have been accepting very common pest insects (leafminers, thrips, and whiteflies) to assay them for insecticide resistance. They come from all over the state. I must possess, however, a CDFA permit to move them, and the person sending them must ship a copy of the permit with the insects. In addition the permit outlines the kind of containment required for shipment. Moving a serious pest or disease could potentially threaten or contaminate other facilities and is not a good idea. It seems to me that a photo can solve a lot of issues with moving pests and can help avoid the anxiety that can occur if you are worried that it could be a serious pest. As an example, a grower was once very worried that they had the dreaded Diaprepes root weevil on their property, and they were sure that they were about to be shut down. They didn't want to spend the weekend worrying about it, so I asked them to just take a quick picture and 
email it to me . It turned out to be a native weevil that I could quickly identify. Needless to say, they were greatly relieved. There are many more examples like this that I could relay to you, but just keep in mind that you can always just send me a quick photo and the vast majority of the time, you will have an answer soon after I receive the email, and it will most likely be something common.
James A. Bethke UC Cooperative Extension San Diego jabethke@ucdavis.edu 760 752-4715 |
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Just Sprouted
 The San Diego County Flower & Plant Association for the first time ever is offering a SPECIAL discount to new members for a limited time this month only (Oct.2011) 50% discount on membership dues. Our 2012 Membership Directory will be going to print next month so this is the perfect opportunity to get published in this beautiful book. It gets mailed to over 1,300 industry related people. It provides a Product Listing section that starts on page 42. Check it out. By becoming a member you will be on our website in which you can have a link for a nominal fee of $25.00 for the year that will link us directly to your website. This will be the cheapest advertising you'll ever do!
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WOMEN IN THE DIRT
LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS SHAPING OUR WORLD
October News
We're so happy to say that Women in the Dirt is connecting with its core audience. Professors are beginning to include the film in the curricula. The number of public screenings is steadily increasing. And the film is being used in creative ways. For example, the Woman's National Farm & Garden Association will be showing the film among its many member groups for the next year. WNFGA is an environmental group comprised of branches, garden clubs, and special interest environmental organizations. We'd love to see a number of public screenings around the USA to celebrate National Landscape Month (April). Please shoot us an email if that interests you. Another interesting time to schedule a screening and perhaps invite director Carolann Stoney: Women's History Month. We're already talking with one college about a special event in 2012. Finally, special thanks to our new partners for the San Diego premiere: the San Diego County Flower and Plant Association and the San Diego Women's Chorus (SDWC). The San Diego County Flower and Plant Association is a trade organization comprised of over 200 commercial flower and potted plant growers in San Diego County and their allied trade companies. Since 1947, the Association has worked to promote and inform its members, as well as to provide representation for the common good of the floriculture industry. Founded in 1987, SDWC is a lesbian-identified chorus that strives to entertain, educate and inspire its audience through song. The chorus welcomes all women and men, to join as support members. All members commit to advancing the chorus's mission to encourage women's creativity, celebrate diversity and inspire social action. |
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Upcoming Screenings
Oct. 12, Long Beach, CA: National Association of Professional Women in Landscape (NAPWL) sponsors a screening at the 2011 Landscape Expo. Director present. Oct. 14, Palma de Mallorca, Spain: screening at Mediterranean Garden Society annual meeting. Outreach consultant Gwen Alston present. Oct. 18, San Francisco: APLDCA presents the film at the California Academy of Sciences. Oct. 18, Raleigh, NC: The Student ASLA and Women in Landscape Architecture (WILA) host the Raleigh premiere. Oct. 28, New York City: NY ASLA presents the New York premiere at Parsons New School of Design, in Keller Auditorium. Oct. 29, San Diego, CA: San Diego premiere, 6:30 pm, at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Present for Q&A: director Carolann Stoney, Isabelle Greene, Mia Lehrer, Katie Sptiz, and possible other special guests. The evening begins with a reception in the museum atrium. Tickets available now, with discounts for members of our local partner organizations: · San Diego Chapter of the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) · San Diego Botanic Garden · San Diego County Flower & Plant Association · San Diego Floral Association · San Diego Horticultural Society · San Diego Women's Chorus · Women's Museum of California Nov. 7, Clemson, SC. Pennell Center for Real Estate Development at Clemson University screens the film. Nov. 9, New York City. Fundraiser for Women in Architecture at Bilotta Kitchens Showroom. Nov. 10, Santa Fe, NM. Santa Fe Botanical Garden presents the SF premiere at The Screen. Nov. 10, New York City. Screening at the Horticultural Society of New York. Nov. 15, Moscow, ID. University of Idaho and Washington State University present the film at the Kenworthy Theater. Apr. 4 & 5, 2012, Dallas, TX. Texas-Lousiana chapters of ASLA screen Women in the Dirt at their regional conference. |
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To Host a Screening
You can host your own screening of Women in the Dirt.
We ask a license fee: - $199 if no admission is charged (you could ask for donations)
- $299 or 35% of net, whichever is greater, if you charge admission
We provide: 100 postcards and 4 posters to help get the word out.
To schedule a screening or for more information please email info at womeninthedirt.com.
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What People Are Saying
"I think what's fabulous about the movie is that this is a group of women who reflect the breadth of landscape architecture today, and the breadth of its history, and the breadth of the practice today, as well as pushing the boundaries."
--Thaisa Way, Historian, Landscape Architect Professor, University of Washington
"In a masterful work, Carolann Stoney introduces us to seven talented, articulate, passionate women who design our landscapes. Every young person in search of a career should see this film--it's that inspiring!"
--Karen C. Hanna, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Cal Poly at Pomona
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WIND Media Productions | PO Box 1164 | Claremont | CA | 91711
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San Diego County Sheriff's Department
Agriculture Related Crimes from August 20th through September 20th, 2011
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Crime Reported
Location of Crime
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Suspect or Vehicle
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8/20
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Avocado Theft:
approximately 2000 pounds of Reed Avocados
8700 Block of West Lilac Rd
Valley Center
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Cut fence and backed truck onto property
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$ 2000.00
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None
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9/1
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Nursery theft: Smith Precision R3 Single Pump Injector - 2.5 gallon Chipco Fungicide - 1.0 gallon Heritage Fungicide - 5.0 pound container of B-9 Plant Growth Regulator
2200 Block of N. Twin Oaks Valley Rd. San Marcos
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Cut surveillance camera electrical wires - pushed fence down to gain access to greenhouse - cut wall into packing area
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$2500 plus repairs to surveillance equipment & greenhouse wall
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None
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9/16
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Attempted Pumpkin Theft:
Crime in Progress -2 people ARRESTED
Kewaak Way & Kunyaaw Path
Valley Center
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Suspects caught putting pumpkins into Silver Ford Ranger Truck
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No loss
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2 - Arrests
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9/18
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Immature, inedible avocado theft:
Approximately 2500 pounds
Manzanita Crest Rd & Mesa Verde Dr.
Valley Center
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Fence breached - chain loosened across unused road to gain access to property
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$2500.00
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None
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Crime Prevention Tips of the Month:
- Report crimes or suspicious activity immediately to Sheriff's Dispatch 24/7/365 (See information box below)
- Request Extra Patrol when crops mature and are ready to be picked
- Help your fellow growers - Report unscrupulous vendors trying to sell product, fuel, or equipment at drastically reduced prices
- Report roadside stands to the local Sheriff's Station or Substation and advise B.J.
- Call B.J. on cell or desk phone to advise what actions were taken related to the crime thus far and schedule a FREE Security Consultation for your property to discuss the crime and crime deterrence measures
- Establish a Nursery/Grove/Farm Watch in your area - B.J. will assist you in that effort
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