Organic Fruit Tree Series for Small-Scale Farmers: Session 1
About the Event
Organic Fruit Tree Series for Small-Scale Farmers—In Person!
with Instructor Orin Martin at the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz
We’re excited to offer a series of four seasonal workshops for small orchard care through the year! Our intent is to engage a cohort of small-scale farmers who can attend all four sessions to learn as a community. Spanish interpretation is available for these free in-person workshops.
This short course series will follow the life and care of fruit trees through the four seasons. The focus will primarily be on apples and pears.
Session 1: Summer Care Package
This session will focus on what we call the “Summer Care Package,” which delves into the details of summer pruning and training your trees. We will also use this session to look back and recap the “Fruit Year.” Other topics we’ll cover include: cover fruit ripening, pest diseases, and how to enliven your soil biologically.
In addition to the in-person workshop, registered participants will receive free instructional videos. Although we will be demonstrating on a garden scale, the techniques and methods are field and farm scale applicable.
These free courses are being offered by the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology at the Alan Chadwick Garden on the UC Santa Cruz campus with support from a California Department of Food & Agriculture (CDFA) Specialty Crop Block Grant.