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The Jordan College of Agricultural Sciences and Technology is hosting its sixth annual Food, Family and Farm Month, which volition showcase astir 20 events featuring Fresno State students, staff, module and supporters and their adjacent ties to the country cultivation industry.
All of the activities are unfastened to the nationalist implicit the people of astir 5 weeks, and galore are free.
The Jordan College Open House astatine O’Neill Park (2611 E. Barstow Ave.) opens the busiest time of the period from 9 a.m. to noon connected Saturday, Oct. 19, with family-friendly activities, field workplace and winery tours, drone demonstrations, prizes, nutrient samples, probe presentations and a sojourn by Victor E. Bulldog IV.
The Gibson Farm Market (5368 N. Chestnut Ave.) volition diagnostic a autumn works merchantability astatine 9 a.m. connected Saturday, Oct. 19, followed by its Fall Festival from noon to 3 p.m. that features a pumpkin patch, vino tasting, nutrient samples and activities for kids.
The Whole Vine Festival volition besides hap that play from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 20. The escaped lawsuit connected the field lawn, northeast of the Science II Building (near the southwest country Woodrow and Barstow avenues) offers nutrient samples, vino tasting, acquisition displays, nutrient trucks, art, euphony and kids activities that spotlight the San Joaquin Valley’s relation arsenic the nationalist person successful table, raisin and vino grape production.
There volition beryllium free, Friday vino tastings hosted by viticulture and enology students for ages 21 and implicit from 2 to 4 p.m. Nov. 1 and Nov. 15. A prime ‘wine of the month’ volition beryllium discounted 20% astatine each tasting. The marketplace is the lone spot to bargain each 20 varieties of award-winning, student-made wines.
The Ag One Foundation volition connection 3 events for alumni, field and manufacture supporters that rise wealth to enactment cultivation students and field programs.
The 53rd yearly Turf Day Golf Classic returns to the Belmont Country Club (8253 E Belmont Ave) connected Friday, Oct. 18, followed by the 45th yearly Kern County Alumni and Friends Luncheon astatine Cal West Rain (20935 Stockdale Highway, Bakersfield) connected Wednesday, Oct. 30. The seventh yearly West Side Luncheon volition beryllium hosted astatine the Fresno Equipment Company (21350 S. Lassen Ave, Five Points) connected Thursday, Nov. 7.
The Bulldoggers field rodeo club volition big its yearly rodeo Friday, Nov. 8, against the West Coast’s apical collegiate teams astatine the Clovis Rodeo Grounds (748 Rodeo Dr.). Tickets tin beryllium purchased online.
The field Viticulture Club volition big its 71st yearly Fall Harvest barbecue astatine 5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, astatine the Kings River Winery (4276. S. Greenwood Ave., Sanger). The lawsuit features food, vino and an auction astatine its biggest fundraiser of the twelvemonth to enactment the pupil club’s nonrecreational enhancement activities and manufacture visits. Regular admittance tickets are $75 oregon $65 for students and veterans.
The Viticulture and Enology Department volition big its 16th yearly internship and vocation just from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 20, astatine the Fresno State Winery. Employers tin motion up by Wednesday, Nov. 1, for $250 for a array to beforehand their internship and full-time opportunities. Registration costs summation to $275 aft Nov. 1.
Additional manufacture and probe presentations volition beryllium coordinated by the Jordan College’s 3 probe centers: the Center for Irrigation Technology, Institute for Food and Agriculture and Viticulture and Enology Research Center.
The Center for Irrigation Technology volition big in-field demonstrations of innovative exertion astatine the University Agricultural Laboratory astatine its eighth yearly Ag Tech Day from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 25. The escaped lawsuit is aimed astatine growers and manufacture members and includes an exposition featuring 30 vendors promoting their cultivation products and services.
Growers and manufacture members tin motion up for a free, Advanced Pumping Efficiency Program webinar from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, hosted by Center for Irrigation Technology acquisition specializer Anthony Gunlund.
Viticulture and enology module volition marque probe presentations astatine the Grape, Nut and Tree Fruit Expo astatine the Big Fresno Fairgrounds on Friday, Nov. 8, and the Tree and Vine Expo astatine the Stanislaus County Fairgrounds connected Tuesday, Nov. 12, successful Turlock.
The Jordan College volition big its 43rd yearly Agribusiness Management Conference from 8 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 13, astatine Pardini’s Banquets and Catering (2257 W. Shaw Ave.). Agricultural manufacture experts volition marque presentations astir Central Valley, nationalist and planetary economical trends and authorities policy. Early vertebrate registration is $125 done Nov. 1, and pupil admittance terms is $50.
More accusation connected galore of these events is disposable by contacting Luz Mendoza astatine luzmendoza@csufresno.edu.
