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  • Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am – 11:00 am – Planning and Creating a Compact Orchard

    Become a backyard orchardist and grow your own fruit! Even with a small yard, you can enjoy fruit from your own trees with minimal effort and cost. This step-by-step Arnold Arboretum workshop at the Wakefield Estate in Milton on March 16 from 9 – 11 will teach you all you need to know to plan and create a compact orchard for years of enjoyment. Participants will spend part of the workshop outside in the orchard for a pruning demonstration, so dress accordingly. Space is limited; pre-registration required. Fee $20 Arboretum member, $30 nonmember. Offered with the Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

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  • Saturday, March 16, 9:00 am – 11:00 am – Planning and Creating a Compact Orchard

    The Arnold Arboretum, in concert with the Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust, will offer a workshop with the staff of the Wakefield Estate in Milton, Massachusetts on Saturday, March 16, from 9 – 11. Become a backyard orchardist and grow your own fruit! Even with a small yard, you can enjoy fruit from your own trees with minimal effort and cost. This step-by-step workshop will teach you all you need to know to plan and create a compact orchard for years of enjoyment. Participants will spend part of the workshop outside in the orchard for a pruning demonstration, so dress accordingly. Space is limited; pre-registration required at www.arboretum.harvard.edu.  $20 fee.

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  • Sunday, April 3, 12:30 pm – 3:30 pm – More Fruit Please! Expanding Your Home Harvest

    With proper planning and plant selection, fruiting trees and shrubs can be an attractive and low-maintenance option for growing food in the home landscape.  Former City Fruit program director for Earthworks Ben Crouch will provide basic tips and outline resources for planning, planting, tending and harvesting a home orchard at this Sunday, April 3 workshop at the Hunnewell Building at the Arnold Arboretum. Learn the particulars of growing blueberries, apples, pears, plums and other less common fruit. There’s nothing fresher than home grown.$30 for Arboretum members, $35 for nonmembers.  Register at www.my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1#April.  Photo of plum tree by Joshua James Evans.

  • Wednesday, August 18, 1:00 pm – Ceremonial Tree Planting

    The Town of Waitsfield will receive a fruit orchard consisting of a variety of fruit trees including: apples, pears, and cherries! This new orchard will benefit Waitsfield’s tradition of conserving land to yield long-term health, sustainable food production and community engagement. All are invited  for the groundbreaking and planting celebration on  Wednesday, August 18 at 808 Old County Road in Waitsfield, Vermont, beginning at 1:00 pm.  The schedule is as follows:
    1:00 pm: Project overview and introductions (Town of Waitsfield; Fruit Tree Planting Foundation; Edy’s Fruit Bars)
    1:15 pm – 1:30 pm: Ceremonial Tree Planting
    1:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Tree planting; Edy’s Fruit Bars sampling; strawberry plant give-away

    The orchard is being planted through a grant from Edy’s Fruit Bars, in partnership with the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation, to provide an ongoing source of fresh fruit to the Town of Waitsfield.  Members of the Town of Waitsfield, the Fruit Tree Planting Foundation and Edy’s will be on hand to plant the trees, with Edy’s providing refreshing Edy’s Fruit Bars to members of the community.

    RSVP to Melanie Fitzgerald, Zenzi Communications at 858-523-9020; or email Melanie.fitzgerald@zenzi.com or call Kim Goeller-Johnson, Edy’s,  510-601-4211; or email kim.goeller-johnson@edys.com.