Fruit Tree Education

Join us at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis on November 6th and 20th for fruit tree classes on pruning and training for high fruit production and quality. The classes will feature hands-on demonstration sessions, and will cover such topics as selecting and maintaining trees, and minimizing chemical usage through integrated pest management techniques.

Please check back for details on registration, or join our email list.

Meet Our Instructor
Jeffrey Johnson is a Landscape Gardener with the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, University of Minnesota. He is a woody plants specialist maintaining the trees and shrubs collections throughout the public cultivated areas in the Arboretum’s 1125 acres.

Jeffrey has been a professional horticulturist for 30 years. At the Arboretum he has managed the HRC’s orchards, Landscape Plants Breeding Program nurseries, recruited and retained a substantial volunteer corps, taught adult education classes, given tours and cultivated donors.

2010 classes will be held this fall. Please check back for details, or join our email list.

Past participants learned…

“That 95% of bugs are beneficial – we’re not at war with bugs.”

“The differences between seed-grown & grafted trees, hardy and good varieties, planting instruction.”

“Insect and blight control, pruning, selection of hardy varieties for planting.”