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Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
February 16 @ 3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
PLEASE RSVP BY EMAILING lucille.nelson@tobm.org. This class will be capped at 20 participants.
When: 3:00pm-5:30pm | 16 Feb 2024
Where: 99 White Pine Dr. Black Mountain, NC 28711
Cost: $20 (cash, check, or card at event). We strive to make our workshops accessible to all; please contact lucille.nelson@tobm.org to inquire about reduce ticket prices.
About: Learn the basic principles of fruit tree and shrub pruning before participating in a demonstration implementing these practices on Apples, Blueberries, Hazelnuts, Pears, and Pawpaws growing at the Dr. John Wilson Community Garden. If you have pruning tools, bring them! Community tools will be available for practice.
Our teacher:
Ethnobiologist Marc Williams has studied the people, plant, mushroom and microbe interconnection intensively while learning to employ botanicals and other life forms for food, medicine, and beauty in a regenerative manner. His training includes a Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Studies concentrating in Sustainable Agriculture with a minor in Business from Warren Wilson College and a Master’s degree in Appalachian Studies concentrating in Sustainable Development with a minor in Geography and Planning from Appalachian State University. He has spent over two decades working at a multitude of restaurants and various farms and has traveled throughout 30 countries in Central/North/South America and Europe as well as all 50 states of the USA. Marc has visited over 200 botanical gardens and research institutions during this process while taking tens of thousands of pictures of representative plants and other entities. He has taught hundreds of classes to thousands of students about the marvelous world of people and their interface with other organisms while working with over 100 organizations and particularly as a key contributor to the work of United Plant Savers, Plants and Healers International and online at the website www.botanyeveryday.com. Marc’s greatest hope is that this effort may help improve our current challenging global ecological situation.