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Bur Collection at Fortune’s Cove Orchard
September 20, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
We’re looking for volunteer chestnut lovers to help bring in this year’s nuts. If you haven’t harvested before, here’s all it entails.
Someone climbs up the ladder and pushes the burs off.
People on the ground chase down the burs and put them in bags. Except at SCBI, we need to bag seed from each tree separately so we can follow them into future generations.
Someone on the ground is scribe, making sure each bag is properly labeled and closed and making sure we harvest from the right trees.
No experience needed!
—If you want to meet in Charlottesville to carpool or caravan, be at the VA DOF at 9:00 AM
900 Natural Resources Drive, Charlottesville
–If you want to meet at the orchard, meet at 10:00 AM
Fortunes Cove Orchard
Nelson County. Near Lovingston, Virginia
GPS: 37.786984, -78.893263
From Charlottesville, take US-29 S to State Rte 718 in Lovingston. Follow State Rte 718 for 1.6 miles and turn right onto State Rte 651. Go another 1.6 miles and you’ll be right outside the orchard. When you see the entrance to the TNC Natural Area you are almost there. Continue up the road that looks like someone’s personal driveway to a gate (keep going) the orchard is just up the dirt road.
