Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

1308 Bancroft Way,Berkeley CA 94702

28 August, 2021

Description

Stone fruit like cherries, apricots, and plums require summer, not winter, pruning. Keep your backyard fruit trees healthy and productive. Winter only pruning encourages trees to respond with excessive growth, while summer pruning and training maintains an accessible height, and better fruiting, with less disease, getting us out of that winter only pruning rut. We will cover which trees do best with summer pruning (or year-round pruning), types of pruning cuts, disease, equipment, and any questions attendees will have. This is a hands on class, and participants will have an opportunity to make some cuts with instructor supervision, in addition to getting tips on cleaning and sharpening the tools you bring. Bring your own pruning shears or loppers. Instructor: John Valenzuela is a horticulturist, consultant, and permaculture educator with Cornucopia Food Forest Gardens. His special interests are rare and heirloom fruit trees, home gardens, plant propagation, food forests, agroforestry, ethnobotany, and native ecosystems. John serves on the boards of the California Rare Fruit Growers and the Felix Gillet Institute. BioFuel Oasis is a worker-owned cooperative that is a biodiesel station and urban farm store. We teach classes on urban farming, including beekeeping, backyard chickens, herbal medicine, mead-making, fermentation, and more. We believe in divesting from large corporate systems of food, agriculture, and energy, and strive to invest in local, sustainable practices of living by connecting local instructors to you and building self-sufficiency in our community. Our store is located at 1441 Ashby Ave., in Berkeley, CA - stop by to chat with one of the worker owners, to fill up your diesel car with our recycled veggie oil biodiesel, or to pick up your urban farm supplies!