Edited to report that the event is confirmed.  They ask that anyone with ripe figs they'd like to share bring them along in case there aren't enough at Burden to go around.  Google Burden Plantation Baton Rouge for directions.  Easy access right off of I-10. 

Meeting beforehand at Mcdonalds and after at Picadilly.  I encourage everyone to bring their spare rooted cuttings for trade/giving/(selling?). 

I'll be hosting a field trip to my home a few miles away for anyone who'd like a look at the Frankenfig after lunch.  Be prepared to be underwhelmed, it mainly just looks like a fig tree. . .



After a hiatus last year, there are plans in the works to have another fig day in 2015.  Dr. Johnson kindly responded to my email:

Yes, tentatively it will be Saturday July 11 from 9 -12. I am just getting things together for this event. I will try to finalize plans next week and get an announcement out to interested groups. 

 I will pass along any more info I get.

I hope to meet many of you.  Last time I didn't do much socializing, it seemed kind of weird to be walking up and introducing myself as Brackishfigger, AKA that Frankenfig guy, to people I wasn't sure would understand.  I suggest we all wear name tags.

I will bring along the remaining trees that no one claimed in my give away (I only had one taker!) for trade/gifting.

Yay!

GOSH DOGGITT!  I will be on family vacation that one weekend this summer...what a bummer.  I mean yeah vacation will be nice, but i would love to come meet up with everyone again.  Hate i will miss it...

Count me in! I'll be there! Can't wait.

I will be there! Looking forward to meeting old and new friends.

Cal I might be in the same boat. I'm heading to the left coast for a week but haven't finalized the plans but it will be close to that date.
"gene"

Yes indeed......looking forward to meeting all the figgies again

I hope they can do the field day.  I am looking forward to going and meeting fellow fig growers.

What is LSU field day? I am working with 10 LSU varieties. I think it would be great to see where they originated from.

My daughter is supposed to have a baby on the 8th but sjould be able to take the little guy on his first fig gathering. I will be there. Lol.

For all newcomers that do not know what this is about, do a search on LSU Fig Field Day.

Yay, get to see my beautiful daughter that lives in baton rouge and satisfy my husband richie's (figpig) fig fetish on the same day! Lol good times! ;)

Hopefully the weather will cooperate and we will have many fresh ripe figs. Two years ago the ripe figs were limited. I am really looking forward to tasting a ripe Hollier to see if that fantastic taste was an anomaly of weather or if it is "one of the best". For the unknowing the Fig Field Day hosted by Dr. Charlie Johnson and the LSU staff is three hours of sensory overload. You get to meet fellow fig lovers, Listen to a short presentation on the fig, Ask questions to experts, see the REAL LSU fig trees (at least the ones left there) and for those willing get together afterwards eat lunch after the event. Some of us will also eat breakfast prior to the meet. Bring your cameras and video recorders there is much that you will want to capture. I hope that all of you will come if at all possible. I drive over four hours one way and would not think of missing it. Hope to see all of you there.

True all that, and yet, it's just three hours out in a field, in the mid-summer LA sun, sweating with a bunch of other fig nuts and hearing a brief lecture and Q&A that primarily just confirms everything you already know.  And many of the rows have been removed since the last event.

I can't wait!!

Still no confirmation from Dr. J regarding the date and time.

I am considering hosting afterwards any of you who are interested at my home 3-4 miles away to continue the discussion and have a gander at the Frankenfig, assuming no family obligations.  BYO large cold drinks. . .

a quick link to a LSU press release regarding Champagne, O'rourke, and TIger figs, to whet your appetites:

http://www.lsu.edu/departments/horticulture/new_figs.pdf

and the original field day thread from 2013

http://figs4funforum.websitetoolbox.com/post/lsu-fig-field-day-6426039?&trail=50

If at all possible I'd like to visit with Frankenfigs creator! We need to coordinate all this so everyone has ample time to prepare. I'm sure there is some sort of buffet close to Burden Field. Everyone will need to recharge after three hours "in the field" I promise you that. I know I will as I will have been running since 0300 that morning. Perhaps we could eat, relax and recharge before going to Brackishfiggers.

There is a Piccadilly Cafeteria real close, don't know about buffet.