October 7
Walnut Festival. Alton, Mo.
October 13
Walnut Council Meeting. Ferd Bopp Farm, Unionville, Mo. 9 a.m. Call Phil
Moore at (816) 540-3169 for more information.
October 15
Poosey Conservation Area, Annual Fall Driving Tour. Located 20 miles NW
of Chillicothe. For more information contact Terry Truttman, resource forester with the
Missouri Department of Conservation at (660) 646-6122. The driving tour will highlight
100 years of professional forestry highlighting forest practices from the past (horses) to
the present (skidder).
October 16
Meeting of the Missouri Tree Farm Committee, 9 a.m., Missouri Department
of Conservation office, Chillicothe, Missouri. The meeting will be followed by a visit to
Jim Drew's tree farm. To attend only the visit to the Drew Tree Farm, meet at the office
by 1 p.m. The Chillicothe office is located 3 miles east of Chillicothe on Hwy. 36. For
more information contact Terry Truttman, resource forester with the Missouri
Department of Conservation at (660) 646-6122.
October 28-30
Walnut Festival, Stockton, Mo. Contact the Hammonds Product
Company at (417) 276-5181.
November 11-12
Nut Harvest Festival. Jim and Florence Wilson, Nevada, Mo. Begins
Saturday at 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Sunday. There will be booths selling food, drinks, crafts
and nut products. There will also be music and wagon tours to see the actual pecan
harvest. Prizes will be given away each hour for registered participants. Call (417) 667-
8115 for more information. Directions: Take Highway 71 about 6 miles north of Nevada,
Mo. or 13 miles South of Rich Hill. There will be signs and you can turn off Highway 71
directly into drive.
January 16-17, 2001
Agroforestry Training for natural resource professionals. The MU
Center for Agroforestry in Columbia will offer a two-day training on designing and
implementing the five temperate agroforestry practices. All registrants will receive
training materials and videos for use with landowners. Course will be held in
Conservation Hall in the School of Natural Resources. For more information, contact
Dusty Walter, technical training specialist at (573) 884-7991 or email:
WalterW@missouri.edu. Also, check out the Center's home page at
http://web.missouri.edu/~umca.
Send your forestry related event dates to: Sandy Hodge, 203 Anheuser-Busch Natural Resources Bldg., MU Center for Agroforestry, Columbia, MO 65211.