The October meeting of The Belfast Garden Club will take place Tuesday, October 16, featuring a presentation and discussion, “Caring for your fruit trees” by Mark Fulford of Teltane Farm in Monroe.

The program is free and the public is encouraged to attend. The speaker will begin at 2 p.m. following a brief public club business meeting beginning at 1 p.m. The afternoon meeting and program take place at St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Parish House, 95 Court St., Belfast.

Mark Fulford, an independent farm consultant and educator with 40 years of agricultural experience, operates Teltane Farm in Monroe with his wife, Paula. He teaches how to transition from conventional to organic and biological agriculture, hands-on skills in organic orcharding, non-electric water technologies and soil, crop and forage nutrition. He’s studied new developments in agriculture in Australia, the Philippines and mainland China.

For more information, visit belfastgardenclub.org or email belfastgardenclub@gmail.com or call Corliss Davis 930-3562