Please note that the timing of this workshop might shift forward an hour, depending on heat forecasts. Registrants will be informed by email of any changes for the start time.
This workshop will be held at the Beacon Hill Food Forest, a community garden/orchard in Seattle. A wide variety of trees are available for us to work on, including apples, Asian pears, mulberries, plums, persimmons, quince, and almonds. Kiwis and grapes may also be available, and we hope to include discussions and demonstrations on training young trees and working with espaliered apples.
Small groups of students will rotate between stations within the garden to get time with different fruits and also learn different pruning approaches from our instructors. Experts in the field will demonstrate the basics of fruit tree pruning for the fruits types at each station, followed by opportunities for attendees to give it a try — with ample coaching available as needed.
Registration for this specialty workshop is is $125/members and $150/nonmembers. Member tickets will be available for purchase at noon on Friday, July 10 (Pacific time zone!). Non-member tickets will be available for purchase starting at noon on Monday, July 13.
If this workshop has sold out, sign up for the wait list via this link. We expect that we will be able to add a couple additional tickets, and we will alert people on our wait list if that happens.
*Prerequisite—You must have attended the PlantAmnesty Fruit Tree Pruning lecture prior to attending this workshop (attending the class in a previous year is acceptable). If you have not attended the class, please consider joining us as a volunteer, which lets you watch and learn while also helping handle debris and guiding students between stations. If you would like to volunteer, send an email to educationprograms@plantamnesty.org.