www.GrowOrganicApples.com

With a little help from his friends, founder Michael Phillips, of Lost Nation Orchard and HerbsAndApples.com, recently registered a new name for the Holistic Orchardist Network pages. Welcome to GrowOrganicApples.com!

Our hope is to help organic apple growers everywhere publicize a more direct link to healthy orchard information. Now the time for the next big step has come. We're initiating a separation between Michael's farm pages and the Holistic Orchardist Networking website. You will soon find more here with significant updated content pertaining to holistic apple growing.

Please set your bookmarks and links to our new address now: let GrowOrganicApples.com launch an exciting growing season for us all!

Organic Apple Growers' Hour

A weekly conference call between organic-minded orchardists and Michael Phillips, author of The Apple Grower, is taking place throughout this growing season. What a great opportunity to explore the nuance of orchard health, insects, and fungal events as such happens!

The calls will be geared for commercial apple growers in the Upper Midwest with intermediate to advanced orchard management skills. Open-minded growers who are interested in a holistic approach to orchard management will get the most out of these calls. Whether you consider your growing practice to be certified-organic or ecological-organic or biologically-based IPM -- or just plain ornery! -- we hope you join us for involved discussion.

This call was organized by Wisconsin's Eco-Apple Project in cooperation with the Upper Midwest Organic Tree Fruit Growers Network, with funding provided by the Organic Farming Research Foundation. The calls take place on Thursday mornings at 8 AM Central time. You can register to participate by contacting Lisa DiPietro at or 608-265-3637. Weekly call summaries can be found on the Tree Fruit Growers website.