Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

1590 7th Avenue,San Francisco CA 94122

31 July, 2021

Description

Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Learn best techniques for it in this workshop! Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Summer pruning allows air and light to reach fruits and lower branches, controls growth on vigorous trees, helps direct a tree's shape, and is an opportunity to remove dead, damaged, and dying wood. Our expert instructors will teach general pruning techniques, discuss the differences between summer and winter pruning, and lead a hands-on demonstration so that you can learn which cuts will keep your trees healthy and productive. GFE will continue to monitor the COVID19 situation in San Francisco and make any necessary changes to the workshop based on City guidelines. No walk-up registration permitted for this course.  Instructors Jamie Chan and Blas Hererra are natives of San Francisco. Growing up among concrete and row houses only fueled their love of the outdoors. Now they tend a small homestead in San Francisco with their two daughters, complete with honey bees, chickens, a greenhouse, mini orchard, and vegetables. Blas has a degree in environmental studies and a certificate in sustainable design from the Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco. He is passionate about reuse and envisioning a garden as a closed system. Jamie has a masters in science from SF State University and is a certified UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener. She loves the science behind gardening and sharing it in an accessible way to everyone! In the gardening world. You can often find them volunteering at their local community greenspace Sisterhood Gardens, posting on Instagram, and running their landscape/educational company Fog City Gardener.  Full garden workshop schedule What to bring to the workshop Directions to the Garden More about Jamie and Blas and our other Gardening Instructors We are San Francisco's teaching and demonstration garden - learn to garden with us!Our workshops teach people to garden sustainably and our instructors are gardening experts with years of experience. We believe in hands-on education and design our workshops to be dynamic and educational.