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Home » Weekend Course Series: Orchard Survey and Design

Weekend Course Series: Orchard Survey and Design

Two-Day Training on 20th and 21st Nov, 10am-4pm

Calthorpe Community Garden, London, WC1X 8LH


Two day training session to introduce budding orchardists to orchard design, site preparation and climate change protection.

Join The Orchard Project for a 2 day introduction to designing an orchard, including carrying out a site survey and assessment. You’ll come away from this weekend feeling empowered and more confident about how to create your own orchard design. Here’s what you’ll be learning:

Saturday: site surveying; tree and plant identification; indicator plants; rootstocks.

Sunday: design considerations, including climate change; resilient planting; forest garden overview; orchard design.

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Prices

£220 / £160 (concessions*) For two days of training on 20th and 21st November, 10am-4pm each day.

PRICES INCLUDE handout and tea/coffee.

*students, retired on low income, or receiving benefit

Contact Jo Homan for more details jo@theorchardproject.org.uk

About the tutor

Jo is the Education, Skills and Training Manager for The Orchard Project with 15 years experience of teaching at all levels. She teaches on and runs the accredited Certificate in Community Orcharding and also helps run the forest garden project in Finsbury Park, Edible Landscapes London, which she set up 10 years ago.

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Feedback on past training

“Thank you so much for the course, it was brilliant. It was the most instructive and useful day as well as being a lot of fun. Really well run and informative“

“Jo is very knowledgeable and loves to explain things she is passionate about, which is great, makes me more passionate too. Thank you!”

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