Apple Tree Pruning & Grafting Back by popular demand! Apple Tree Pruning and Grafting with Todd Parlo, owner of Walden Heights Nursery and Orchard specializing in organic cold hardy fruit. He will teach specifically about the pruning and grafting of apple trees just in time to care for your own apple trees. You'll learn about the hardy seedling rootstock that does well here in our colder Vermont climate.
This all-day workshop is divided into morning and afternoon sessions. You can take both, or just one session. 9:00 - noon, Pruning 1:00 - 4:00, Grafting
Fees
$50 Full Day (non-members)
$40 Full Day (members)
$25 Half-day Session (non-members)
$20 Half-day Session (members)
Date: March 3, 2012 Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Info: A great deal of information will be given, so a notebook would be a good idea Materials for the grafting class. If you are coming for the full day, please bring something to eat for lunch. We will have some grafting supplies and tools for sale at the class, but students should bring:
hand pruning shears (sacateurs)
carpenters knife/sheetrock knife/box cutter (NOT the one with breakaway blades)
plastic grocery bag to take your tree home
scissors
All other materials will be provided.
Todd Parlo owns and operates Walden Heights Nursery & Orchard, one of the only certified organic nurseries in North America. Located in Walden, VT, they grow their own nursery stock as well as maintain an heirloom apple arboretum and educational orchard with over 400 fruit tree varieties.
Current Conditions
05/16/12 6:12 PM
St. Johnsbury, VT
Showers and thunderstorms, some severe, will continue eastward from the Champlain Valley this afternoon. Exercise caution if outdoors this afternoon and evening. Seek shelter if storms approach.
