In this Issue...

• Announcement of Winter Meeting
• Upcoming Business
• Report of the Projects Report Meeting
• SIG Project Highlights
• The Winter Meeting

The Nut Use SIG is pleased to announce the Chapter's 1985/86 Winter Meeting to be held onWednesday, 15 Jan., 1986, at the Billings Estate on Cabot St. in Ottawa. Registration starts at7:30 PM.

Come join in the Round Table Discussion. Ask your questions! Answer the questions of others.Trade tips, techniques, ideas in this new open forum-style meeting! Any and everyone gets a say!The open discussions will be recorded, and afterwards summarized for publication in successiveissues of the Nuttery, and possibly published as a booklet later.

Plan to attend and bring family and friends. Bring any artefacts, tools, jewellery, toys, books,written articles, etc. etc. on nuts to the mid-meeting Show-and-Tell! For more information, callPolly Forrestall, Ottawa 233-5189.

Upcoming Business

The next issue of the Nuttery will emphasize arrangements for the forthcoming Chapter AnnualGeneral Meeting. Elections of officers is the most important issue. Please consider running foroffice! Your Chapter needs a strong Executive and it needs you! Consider Chairing, Vice-Chair, Secretary, Treasurer, or one of the four Councillors. There are 8 positions in all.

The next Executive meeting will be held Friday Feb. 14 at 7:30 PM at the Chair's abode. Thedeadline for the next Nuttery (vol.4 no.7) is Saturday, 22 February, 1986.

Report of the Projects Report Meeting

Our first ever Projects Report Meeting was held the 27th of November in the basement of theMuseum of Man on MacLeod St. in Ottawa. Though the group was small, discussion was livelyand many good ideas tabled. The purpose of the meeting was to be a forum for all SIG convenorsto report their group's activities in the past year.

Hank Jones, as Chapter Chair, discussed the organization of the Chapter's Executive and theneed for fresh faces thereon in the forthcoming year 1986/87.

Polly Forrestall's outline of the activities of her Nut Use Group triggered many suggestions onways and means of handling the new Bibliography and the possibilities for the plannedCookbook. Concern and some ideas were expressed on how we might access the informationreferenced in the Bibliography.

Dick Bell showed samples of a new style of surficial geology/topography map that the SurveyGroup plans to use to plot out the premier Inventree sites, as will be classified by Peter Janas'new tree site evaluation system. Members thought the maps most suitable and attractive.

The Nuttery Editor, the evening's meeting host Agnes MacIntosh, who is also Chair of theCommunications SIG, explained how each issue of the Nuttery is compiled and published. Shereminded the audience how important the newsletter information is to an organization asscattered as ours, where outlying members can only attend meetings occasionally.

During a brief mid-meeting break, most graciously catered by Councillor Louise Watt, MarkJones demonstrated two inertial nutcrackers, and home-made black walnut stain, and showedsome artefacts made of various nut woods.

Our convenor for Horticulture, Alec Jones, was unable to attend as he was sojourning inConnecticut. His presentation was read by the Chapter Chair, who noted the considerablecontribution this SIG was making in collecting germination and growth data from many sites inthe Ottawa Valley and western Quebec.

As time was running short and our Secretary was unable to attend due to work overload (ourcondolences!), the important work of the new Promotions Committee was skipped.

The last presentation, by the new convenor of the Silviculture SIG, Irmi Underwood, brought tothe members' attention that there are several planted nut tree sites on NCC property that havebeen informally managed by her, Mark Schaefer and others for the last few years. She stronglyurged the Chapter to make formal representations to the NCC to recognize these special sites,and to designate them for special planning consideration. Arrangements should be made verysoon for the Chapter and the NCC to jointly care for these trees.

Finally, the attendees recommended that this Project Reports Meeting continue as the annual call,and forum, for SIG Convenors' detailed technical reports.

SIG Project Highlights

The Silviculture SIG is still contemplating maintenance standards for the Baxter Nut Grove. Thesecond nut grove project, been started by IreneWoolford, Winchester, is in a 5 acre plot belonging to the South Nation Conservation Authority.The project needs the help of members interested in the development of this new nut grove.Also, there are several well established plantations of nut trees on what is now NCC property.These plots need formal recognition by the NCC to ensure that they are not inadvertentlydestroyed. For more information on Silviculture projects, call Irmi Underwood, Convenor, atCarp 839-5563.

The Nut Use SIG is moving ahead quickly on its two main projects. First, the group haspublished a bibliography of nut tree literature in the Technical Section of the Nuttery. This isonly thebeginning. They now want more information, and skilled help to index this material for futureeditions of the bibliography. Their other project will be to compile, test and publish a nutterycookbook, to be sold at a modest price to help raise funds for the Chapter. Jean Giblin ispreparing the cookbook plan now - call her with your ideas at Ottawa 727-5781. For moreinformation on Nut Use projects, call Polly Sue Forrestall, Convenor, at Ottawa 233-5189.

The Survey SIG now have a set of surficial geology/topographic maps for plotting Inventreesites. Also, the group will be drafting a users' manual for applying Peter's site classificationscheme to Inventree. For more information in Survey projects, call Dick Bell, Convenor, at NorthGower 489-2095.

The Horticulture SIG has stratified George Truscott's 500 lb of Black Walnuts at the Baxter NutGrove. Also, Gordon MacArthur has sent out the questionnaire on last spring's massive seeddistribution, for germination and growth data. For more information on Horticulture projects, callAlec Jones at Ottawa 828-6459.

For general information on Chapter projects, call Vice-Chair Jim Bartley at Wakefield 459-3597.

The Winter Meeting

This year's Winter Meeting will be an experiment in capturing the wealth of technical knowledgescattered amongst our members. Instead of asking the few to address us, the Nut Use SIG, ourhosts, have cleverly devised a meeting format whereby everyone attending can speak up. Theevening will be an open forum, allowing the free flow of technical questions and answersthroughout the room, guided only by the meeting monitor. They hope that during the course ofthe evening, many questions will be asked and many answers will be given. They expect thatmuch technical wisdom and experience will out. To reap the full benefit of the information, thesession will be recorded by several rapporteurs, appointed at the start, to be digested andsummarised later in successive issues of the Nuttery, and possibly later in pamphlet form if therequisite time to do the work can be found. The pamphlet could be available for a time forthe price of photocopying or printing.

Make notes ahead of time on any techniques you may share during the meeting, and pass them tothe rapporteurs even if you do not speak about them at the meeting. See and hear you at theWinter Meeting! Call Polly Forrestall, Ottawa 233-5189.

The second half of the original Bibliography appeared in this issue.

Provided by ECSONG. Feel free to copy with a credit.