Orchard Basics Workshop

Home Orchard Basics with Michael Phillips Friday February 1^st 2013

 1pm – 4pm
Millbrook Branch Library, Old Millbrook School

*Free or by donation*

 
Successfully growing fruit for your family and community becomes
straightforward when you narrow the big picture down to getting the
basics right. Fungal disease becomes manageable with wise variety
choices and enhanced soil biology. Even major insect challenges can be
resolved safely when you perceive who, what, and when. All sorts of
fruits-from apples and pears to peaches and cherries and onward to
berries-make for a diverse home orchard planting. Confidence to
integrate tree fruits into your landscape begins with embracing
biodiversity and knowing how to build system health. This workshop is filled with practical information for growing tree fruits right!

Michael Phillips (http://www.herbsandapples.com/orchard/) is known across the country for helping people grow healthy fruit. The "community orchard movement" that he helped found at www.GrowOrganicApples.com provides a full immersion into the holistic approach to orcharding. His Lost Nation Orchard is part of a medicinal herb farm in northern New Hampshire. Michael's newest book, The Holistic Orchard, speaks for all fruits and recently received Garden Book of the Year honors from the American Horticultural Society.

For more information or to RSVP contact Andrew at farm@circleorganic.ca or 705.932.9888