March 17: Pruning Fruit Trees
Locations: Blue Hill, Somesville (MDI)- Cancelled, Unity- Sold Out *fee is $30
Learn to prune fruit trees to encourage vigorous growth, heavy fruit set, and quality fruit yield. Collection of scion wood and storage will also be discussed. Please bring a bag lunch, course will run from 10-3 pm. A snow date of March 18th is planned.

March 24: Renovating Old Apple Trees
Locations: Somesville (MDI), & Swanville *fee is $30
Course is focused on pruning and feeding very old non-productive fruit trees in order to bring them back into fruitfulness. Instructors will employ various methods to demonstrate proper pruning of trees that have been unmanaged. Taught by Tim Seabrook on MDI and CJ Walke in Swanville. Please bring pruning tools and a bag lunch, course will run from 10-2pm.

April 28: Grafting Fruit Trees
Locations: Somesville (MDI) & Unity *fee is $50
Learn to propagate and reproduce your favorite fruit tree varieties. Unity course instructors Delton Curtis of Curtis Pond Nursery and Jen Ries of Whiffletree Nursery in Brooks will explain how to graft, demonstrating Whip & Tongue and T-Budding, as well as outdoor grafting (top working) of established trees. Tim Seabrook of Five Star Nursery will lead the workshop in Somesville. Participants will graft trees to take home and plant. Care for the new trees will be discussed. Please bring a grafting knife and a bag lunch. Course will run from 10-3 pm.
A grafting knife (#475v Victorinox model is recommended) is essential and can be purchased in advance from the following sources: FEDCO  or  MOFGA Store

May 5: Orcharding 101
Location: Unity
*fee is $40 for members, $50 for non-members
Join Michael Phillips, author of The Apple Grower, for a comprehensive exploration of orchard health strategies that make disease and insect challenges doable for growers, including lectures, discussions, question and answer periods inside and out. Learn what to expect in your orchard and how to manage it. Please bring a bag lunch, course will run from 10-4 pm.

June 23: Growing Fruit Trees Organically
Location: Unity*fee is $30
Join C.J. Walke, MOFGA’s Organic Orchardist, as he discusses organic orcharding methods and explains how he manages the orchards at MOFGA’s Common Ground Education Center.  The workshop will start with an inside presentation focusing on OMRI-approved material inputs, establishing tree health and common fruit tree insects and diseases, followed by a walk through MOFGA’s orchards to see these things in action.  This workshop will be an excellent follow-up to Organic Orcharding 101.  Please bring a bag lunch, course will run from 10-2 pm.

Saturday, July 28: Bud Grafting
Location: Thorndike*fee is $30
Bud grafting is a great way to start your own fruit trees as well as many ornamentals. "Budding" uses individual buds from this year’s new growth to graft onto rootstock already set in the nursery. Taught by Delton Curtis of Curtis Pond Nursery, grafter for FEDCO trees. Course will run from 10-1 pm.