A New Year, A New Adventure

Welcome! And Happy New Year! Today marks the beginning of a wonderful new adventure for us here at Foundation Plant Services – we’ve started a blog. This blog is just another step we’re taking to become more accessible to those working with us and utilizing our services. In addition to our full-service website and our facebook page, we will be using this blog to stay in touch with our colleagues and customers and share information about our programs.

As for this first post, I’d like to take the opportunity to introduce us and what we do here.

Foundation Plant Services (FPS) is a self-supporting service department in the College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences at the University of California, Davis. FPS is currently home to five crop programs – grapes, fruit and nut trees, sweet potatoes, strawberries, and roses. The mission for each of the five programs is the same: to collect important varieties, test them for viruses, and make the virus tested clean stock available to nurseries and growers. This “foundation stock” becomes the basis for commercial vineyards, orchards, fields, and retail plants. Funding for these programs comes from the industries they serve.

FPS is located west of the central campus on Hopkins road just north of the airport. Construction of a second building, The Trinchero Family Estates Building, began in 2012 and the shell was completed in August. We are currently raising funds to complete the interior of the building so we can move in. The new building will include a spacious meeting hall and room for our expanding programs and technology. You can read about the new building and see photographs from the dedication in our current newsletter.

For information about us, including plant material we have available, how to place orders, and our newsletter archive, please visit our website.

And please check back soon for more updates from FPS.