[UrbanCropCircle] Fruit Tree Care Classes

[rhonda at sustainableballard.org]

Hi Rhonda,
I'd like to ask if you'd please post the following winter Fruit Tree Care
Classes on
the Sustainable Ballard blog/site?
Attached is the information, as well as below.
Thank you!Jen MullenCity Fruitwww.cityfruit.org

   Fruit Tree Care Classes – Winter 2010
 City Fruit offers a series of fruit tree care classes starting in January
2010.
Register at Brown Paper Tickets (links from www.cityfruit.org) or send a
check with
the name of the class and your contact information to City Fruit, PO Box
28577,
Seattle 98118.   After registering, you will receive confirmation and the
address
of the class.   If you can’t afford a class but really want to learn,
email us at
info at cityfruit.org.  The Phinney Neighborhood Association serves as City
Fruit’s
fiscal sponsor and is the co-sponsor of these events.   Feb 6   Fruit
Varieties for
the Pacific NW . 1 – 3 pm.  UW Botanic Gardens.  $20/$15 (members).  Sam
Benowitz
is the owner of Raintree Nursery, a nursery specializing in fruit trees
and other
edibles.  Whether it’s plums, apples, pears, or berries, Sam knows what
varieties
do best in any particular situation.  He will discuss the best fruits for the
Northwest, why rootstocks are important, and how to determine how big a
tree will
grow.   Feb 20  The Art of Espalier.  1 – 4:30 pm.  UW Botanic Gardens. 
$30/$25
(members).   Dave Conners, former
president of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, has been training 18
different antique apple varieties on his city-sized lot for more than a
decade and has been teaching “The Art of Espalier” at the UW’s Center
for Urban horticulture for many years.    Mar 6   Pruning Grape Vines  9
am – noon.
Phinney Neighborhood Association and neighboring site with grape vines. 
$20/$15
(members).  Learn to prune and train grape vines and get tips on growing
grapes for
best production.  Larry
Davis is a Master Gardener and teaches grape and other fruit production
classes for the WSU-King County Master Gardener program.     Mar 20 
Planting and
Caring for Young Fruit Trees  10 am – noon.  Orca School Environmental
Learning
Center.  $20/$15 (members).  Find out how and where to plant your new
fruit tree and
how to keep it healthy.  John Reardon, vice
president of the Seattle Tree Fruit Society, teaches tree care classes
for Plant Amnesty, Seattle Tree Fruit Society and City Fruit.    Fruit
tree care
classes are also offered by the following organizations.  See the City Fruit
Calendar at www.cityfruit.org, or their websites for details.   Community
Harvest of
Southwest Seattle Friends of Piper’s Orchard Seattle Tilth Seattle Tree Fruit
Society Western Washington Fruit Research Foundation

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