Fruit trees require care year-round, and summer pruning can be just as useful as winter pruning! Summer pruning allows air and light reach fruits and lower branches, controls growth on vigorous trees, lets you work on the shape and form of your trees, and is another chance to remove dead, damaged, and dying wood. In this workshop, our expert instructors will go over general pruning technique, discuss the differences between summer and winter pruning, and lead a hands-on demonstration so that you can learn which cuts will keep your trees healthy and productive.

INSTRUCTORS: Jamie Chan and Blas Herrera

Jamie & Blas are natives of San Francisco. Growing up among concrete and row houses only fueled their love of the outdoors. Now they tend a small homestead in San Francisco with their two daughters, complete with honey bees, chickens, greenhouse, mini orchard and vegetables. Blas has a degree in environmental studies and a certificate in sustainable design from the Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco. He is passionate about reuse and envisioning a garden as a closed system. Jamie has a masters in science from SF State University and is a certified UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener. She loves the science behind gardening and sharing it in an accessible way to everyone! In the gardening world. You can often find them volunteering at their local community greenspace Sisterhood Gardens, posting on instagram and running their landscape/educational company Fog City Gardener.

Happy gardening!