Grow Fruit Trees In the Pacific Northwest – Online Course

$39.00

An Online Course to Help You Grow Fruit with Confidence

This mixed media course includes:

  • 45 minutes of video from the inspiring Fruit Trees & More in North Saanich
  • 90 minutes of video training & tours of project sites by the Hatchet & Seed Team
  • Over 120 minutes of thematic, multi-media slideshows cut into short segments for your convenience
  • Dozens of curated online resources (links, e-Books & PDFs) on all things fruit & nuts
  • 2-year access

PLEASE NOTE: This course covers tree fruits only and does not cover berries or nuts.

Course access instructions are shared on the purchase confirmation page and confirmation email in PDF file.

 

Course Curriculum

Welcome! Course Introduction

  • Introducing Ourselves
  • How To Use This Course

Tour of Fruit Trees & More with Bob Duncan, August 2020 (North Saanich, BC)

  • Video – Figs (7:43)
  • Video – Stone Fruits (7:17)
  • Video – Kiwi (6:51)
  • Video – Citrus (8:48)
  • Video – Winter Citrus Follow-Up (1:41)
  • Video – 8 Fruit You Didn’t Know You Could Grow (11:41)

Choosing Fruits & Nuts

  • PDF – Fruit & Nuts for Southern Vancouver Island by Hatchet & Seed
  • PDF – Fruit Cultivar Descriptions & Availability at Fruit Trees & More
  • Local Nurseries & Fruit Cultivar Descriptions

Planning Your Fruit & Nut Orchard: From Backyards to Farms

  • Slideshow – Inspiring Trees & Their Stories (13:26)
  • Slideshow – Site Selection (9:05)
  • Slideshow – Pollination (9:55)
  • Slideshow – Rootstocks (6:13)
  • Slideshow – Tree Forms & Spacing (14:34)
  • Video: Drip Irrigating Your Trees (4:53)
  • VIDEO – Suburban Food Forest Case Study (18:11)
  • Resource: Cross-Pollination Charts

Soil Preparation & Planting

  • Slideshow: Soil Preparation Case Studies (16:48)
  • Slideshow: Planting Do’s & Dont’s (7:48)
  • Video: How to Plant a Tree (13:19)
  • Video: How to Plant a Tree 2 (8:25)
  • Video: Mixed Orchard Installation (9:35)
  • Additional Resources

Seasonal Pruning & Training

  • Slideshow: Understanding Fruit Tree Habits (11:32)
  • Slideshow: Pruning & Training Basics (26:47)
  • Video – Bob Duncan on Training Styles (3:57)
  • Video: Plum Pruning (Winter) with Tayler (7:48)
  • Video: Espalier Winter Pruning with Tayler & Chris Adams (5:37)
  • Video: Winter Pruning with Bob Duncan (16:22)
  • Video: Review – Heading Cut vs. Thinning Cut (Winter) with Tayler (1:58)
  • Video: Winter Pruning Central Leader Dwarf Apple Tree (8:45)
  • Video: Training a Young Dwarf Fruit Tree for ‘Christmas Tree-Style’ (3:30)
  • Video: Summer Pruning Demo (3:10)
  • Video: How to Prune Figs with Bob Duncan
  • Video: Restoring an Old Heritage Apple Tree (12:01)
  • Slideshow: Grafting Basics (14:12)
  • Additional Resources

Pest, Disease & Fertility Management

  • Slideshow: Pest & Disease Management (18:54)
  • Slideshow: Fertility Management (8:01)
  • Video: Chris Adams on Holistic Pest Management (2:14)
  • Video: The Fungal Garden (2:54)
  • PDF: Holistic Fruit Tree Sprays
  • Additional Resources

Harvest, Processing & Storage Tips

  • Video: Brief History of the Orchard Wassail (7:56)
  • Slideshow: Harvesting Tips & Tools (10:06)
  • Slideshow: Hard Cider Basics (18:48)
  • Additional Resources

A word from the makers:

This ‘self-paced‘ online course has grown out of our 10 years of managing Hatchet & Seed – Edible Landscapes in ‘the garden city’ – Victoria, BC.

Designing, installing & co-evolving with our own backyard edible landscapes, as well as our client’s orchards/edible landscapes has been humbling and gratifying.

Being so multi-locational – with projects all throughout Southern Vancouver Island – we’ve learnt a lot in those ten years from both mistakes & successes.

While cultivating fruit may seem as easy as planting fruit trees, there are many factors to consider.

Site selection, soil type, soil preparation, planting, training, pruning, pest management, harvest, processing & storage are all important considerations to plan for ahead of time.

We’ve designed this course to be a high-quality, well-organized, multi-media reference place for those seeking help on their journey to horticultural & homesteading mastery.

While our ten years of experience has been enlightening, we are still early-learners in the unbelievably rich world of fruit cultivation. This is why we’re thrilled to have partnered with Bob & Verna Duncan of Fruit Trees & More in North Saanich, BC. They bring several additional decades of wisdom growing rare & unique fruits in our eco-region. We’re also featuring some other friends and colleagues who have fruit wisdom to share!

We sincerely hope you enjoy, Tayler & Solara.

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