{"id":8,"date":"2025-11-12T05:51:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T05:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2025-11-14T00:29:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:29:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"is-style-text-subtitle is-style-text-subtitle--1\">We are a group of ardent fruit growers who are enthusiastic about growing unusual fruits, many of which you would rarely find in your local grocery<br>store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-global-padding is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--50)\">\n<p>We are all interested in learning, and in sharing our<br>knowledge about growing rare fruits.<br>At our meetings throughout the year, we have<br>various interesting activities, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Field Trips<\/strong> to member&#8217;s gardens, nurseries, botanical gardens, commercial orchards.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Presentations<\/strong> given by experts in a particular fruit, or special aspect of rare fruit growing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Scionwood Exchanges<\/strong> where you can get the material required to graft a new variety of fruit onto a similar tree that you are already growing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Fruit Tastings<\/strong> where members bring fruit from their gardens to meetings, for you to sample.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Group Purchases<\/strong> of plants and difficult to find materials.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Plant Raffles<\/strong> where members contribute their excess plants to help other members enhance their collections, and at the same time, help our chapter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/CRFG_Song.mp3\" autoplay><\/audio><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>See a video interview with several members of the LA Chapter CRFG &nbsp;by Walt Zmed from his TV show, ICONS, as seen in Chatsworth, California on Time Warner Communications cable. <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JoEoMQ_W3tc\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a group of ardent fruit growers who are enthusiastic about growing unusual fruits, many of which you would rarely find in your local grocerystore. We are all interested in learning, and in sharing ourknowledge about growing rare fruits.At our meetings throughout the year, we havevarious interesting activities, including: See a video interview with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91,"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions\/91"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crfg-la.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}