Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

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Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Learn best techniques for it in this workshop!

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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 you can learn which cuts will keep your trees healthy and productive.Following the workshop, you can put your newfound skills to use! Feel free to bring a lunch and eat with GFE staff and volunteers, and then at 1pm, join a group of fellow workshop participants and others from the GFE community to prune our orchard trees. Instructors Jamie &amp; Blas are natives of San Francisco. They tend a small homestead in San Francisco with their two girls, complete with honey bees, chickens, greenhouse, mini orchard and vegetables. Blas has a degree in environmental studies, a certificate in sustainable design from the Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco and currently is teaching high school science in the Jefferson Union School District. Jamie has an MS in science and a doctorate in educational leadership from SF State University. She is a certified UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener and currently Executive Director of Planet Bee Foundation. In their free time you can find them volunteering at their local community greenspace Sisterhood Gardens and running their garden education company @FogCityGardener. No walk-up registration permitted for this course. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/garden-for-the-environment-924286027" title="https://www.eventbrite.com/o/garden-for-the-environment-924286027" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Full garden workshop schedule</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/workshops" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/workshops" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">What to bring to the workshop</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/directions" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/directions" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Directions to the garden</a><a href="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/staff" title="https://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/staff" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">More about Jamie and Blas and our gardening Instructors</a>

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