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Stone fruits – tasting plums, peaches, nectarines; Propagating plants via budding and semi-hardwood cuttings; Planting the fall/winter garden. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the whole series here.
Avocados & Citrus – planting, growing, tasting, varietal selection, propagation; Berries – tasting, varietal selection; Spring orchard maintenance; Thinning, delayed dormant pruning, and corrections to winter pruning; Public food forests & community harvests. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the whole series here.
Pomology & tree physiology; Winter pruning pomme and stone fruits; Planting bare root fruit trees and berries; Selecting bare root fruit trees, varietal selection, rootstock, disease resistance, pollination; Exchanging dormant cuttings, scion wood, and perennial plants. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the
Pomology & tree physiology; Winter pruning pomme and stone fruits; Planting bare root fruit trees and berries; Selecting bare root fruit trees, varietal selection, rootstock, disease resistance, pollination; Exchanging dormant cuttings, scion wood, and perennial plants. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the
Preserving the abundance through drying, canning, fermenting, and pickling; Pomme fruits – tasting apples and pears (and late plums); Growing, harvesting and processing nuts and olives; Integrating animals into the agroecosystem; Cover cropping, fall plantings, and preparing for winter. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or
Designing Food Forests Part 1; Stone fruits – tasting plums, peaches, nectarines; Planting the fall/winter garden. This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Food Forests. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the whole series here.
Do you want to gain hands-on skills and build community around growing food? Interested in learning best practices for orchard establishment and management, food forestry, designing year round productive vegetable farms and gardens, and preserving the harvest? We are pleased to offer this advanced practicum grounded in sound horticultural practices, and spiced with the delicious seasonal fruits and vegetables our
Explore the principles of social permaculture Learn about community designs and programs that foster resilient neighborhoods Explore best practices for starting and sustaining intentional communities and Ecovillages Visit urban gardens and orchards in Santa Cruz Present final permaculture design projects This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Design Certificate Course. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out
Tour local gardens and broadacre ranches that are applying permaculture principles to their animal husbandry practices, such as holistic grazing Learn about forest management practices, including Sudden Oak Life Implement Sudden Oak Life strategies Study and practice fruit tree pruning This one-weekend course is part of a six-weekend course series: Permaculture Design Certificate Course. Sign up for this single weekend below or check out the whole
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