Winter/Waring Workshop: How to Prune Your Fruit Trees with Angelo Eliades

This will be a hands-on workshop where we will learn to use our new skills on the fig tree at the back of Oakhill Food Justice Farm!

You will learn how to:

•  carry out formative pruning to shape young trees
• maintenance pruning to maintain the size of established trees
• renovation pruning to tidy up overgrown trees and reduce their size. 

For gardeners of all experience levels, this training session will cover the basic theory and fundamentals of fruit tree pruning, how to prune trees with special pruning requirements such as figs, pomegranates and persimmons, and winter fruit tree pest control. This is a 2-hour workshop which includes a 15-minute questions and answers session at the end.

Angelo Eliades is a presenter, trainer and writer in the areas of sustainable gardening and permaculture. He has worked as a horticulturist in the garden nursery industry over the last ten years, writes for a major Australian gardening magazine, has a demonstration food forest garden in Melbourne’s inner suburbs, and runs the educational website Deep Green Permaculture.

Waring (wombat) is the coldest, wettest Wurundjeri season, spanning from April - July, where mushrooms and moths flourish and wombats roam in the afternoon sun.

Food Justice means no body is turned away for lack of funds. If you are unable to pay for a ticket, you can use the code 'FOODJUSTICE' to access a free ticket. 

If you are in a position to subsidise one of these places, you can buy a solidarity 'Pay it Forward' ticket. 

(Sustain: the Australian Food Network is a health promotion charity with Deductible Gift Recipient status, so buying a pay it forward ticket is tax deductible. We will provide you with a tax invoice for that purpose.)