Take the mystery out of tree pruning with this hands-on workshop! Learn the basics and leave with skills you can start using immediately.
Topics covered include:
- How trees grow
- Why pruning keeps trees healthier
- How trees react to pruning
- Seasonal pruning
- How to prune properly
- Common pruning mistakes
- Identifying a properly pruned true
and more!
The workshop will also include a show-and-tell of different types of wood, branches, branch collars, compartmentalization of decay in trees. Bring your questions and come prepared for a fun interactive learning experience.
Tony Wolcott is a Certified Landscape Horticulturalist, Certified Irrigation Designer, Board Certified Master Arborist, Master Composter, and Bay Friendly Designer. His work experience includes being the urban forester at the Cities of Albany and San Francisco, non-profit work with Friends of the Urban Forest, Our City Forest, and arborist representative with Bartlett Tree Experts. Currently he is professor of Arboriculture within the Horticulture division of the Biology Department at Diablo Valley College.
Hi Project Pickers,
We have a quick plum pick this coming Saturday, June 30 (this month has FLOWN by!) at 11 AM.
Come and enjoy being together and picking summer stone fruit! Email info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org to RSVP and I will advise the location.
Please bring gardening gloves if you have them, water and a hat.
Also, please let me know if you need Project Pick postcards to distribute to help recruit your neighbors with fruit trees to donate their fruit.
Jillian
Hi Pickers,
Believe it or not we have lots of oranges and lemons to pick in the middle of summer! We need to go back to a backyard that has several orange and lemon trees with delicious fruit!
Let me know if you can join us on Saturday, June 14 from 2 – 3:30 PM and I will give location details.
Bring a hat, water, and gardening gloves if you have them.
Thanks! Hope to see you soon!
Jill
Project Pick Coordinator
Hi Pickers!
Hope you’ve been enjoying your summer!
Our pick on Saturday, Aug. 11 from 2-4pm will feature oranges, plums and lemons!
Come and join us! Bring gardening gloves if you have them, water and a hat.
I will fill you on where we’re meeting when I hear back from you. To RSVP please email me at info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org.
Looking forward to seeing you!
Jillian Saxty
Hi Pickers!
Join us Saturday, August 25 from 2-4PM (depending on the number of pick locations). Our fearless leader will be Holly Johnson and we’ll keep you posted as to what lovely fruit will be picked.
Please email info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org if you can make it and we will fill you in on the meeting location details. Bring gardening gloves (if you have them), water and a hat. Picking tools will be provided.
Thanks! See you then!
Jillian Saxty
Project Pick Coordinator
Hi Pickers,
Long time, no pick! We’ll that’s about to change as we move into fall. Lots of apples are coming in, along with some persimmons and the perennial citrus fruits.
Please let me know if you can make it this Sunday afternoon from 2 to about 4:30PM and I will forward the joining location. Please bring water and gloves and a hat.
Mark your calendars for upcoming picks:
Saturday, September 29, 10 to noon
Saturday, October 13, 2 to about 4PM.
It’s raining apples! We will have at least 2 apple trees to pick Saturday, September 29 from 10AM to about noon. Please let me know if you can make it and I’ll advise the joining location.
Don’t forget to bring gardening gloves (if you have them), a hat and some water.
Upcoming pick:
Saturday, October 13 from 2 to 4PM
Hi Pickers,
Hope you can make it Saturday, October 13 from 2 – 4PM. There’s bound to be a wonderful mixture of ripe fruit to pick!
Please let me know and I’ll advise joining instructions.
Please bring a hat, water and gardening gloves if you have them.
Thanks!
Jillian Saxty
Project Pick Coordinator
Hi Pickers,
Orange is the new green! We have oranges and persimmons this Saturday, Nov. 3 from 2 – 4:30PM.
Please let me know if you CAN come and help us pick, and I will let you know the joining location.
Please bring gloves, a hat and water.
Thank you!
Jillian Saxty
Project Pick Coordinator
Hi Pickers!
Thank you for all your help this year! To date we’ve picked and delivered 3,845 lbs to the Alameda Food Bank (and 39 lbs of figs to Food Shift Kitchen). Well done!
We have one more pick scheduled in 2018 – on Saturday, Dec. 8 at 2PM. We need more trees for this pick, so please tell your friends and neighbors with trees laden with extra fruit to contact us.
Please let us know if are able to help pick by emailing info@alamedabackyardgrowers.org and I will let you know where to meet up.
Meanwhile – Happy Thanksgiving!