Workshop Dates 2026
PRUNING AND TRAINING FRUIT TREES – 8 August 2026
Workshop Content and Cost
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop (winter)
Learn to prune a variety of productive fruit trees:
- Apples
- Pears
- Plums
- Citrus
- Feijoas
Workshop participants will learn about:
- Equipment
- Techniques
- Apical dominance
- Shapes
- Timing of pruning
- What to prune
- Identifying fruiting buds
- Tying down
Workshop participants get hands on experience of making pruning cuts, deciding on tree shapes, pruning, and tying down.
All day workshop – 9.00am-5.00pm with a break for morning and afternoon tea which will be provided. Bring something for a shared lunch – $100 per person.
Biodynamics and Moon Calendar Workshop (autumn)
This workshop covers an introduction to biodynamics for the home gardener.
Look at the various Biodynamic preparations and find out what they do for our soil and plants
Understand the right times of the month to put the preparations on the soil/plants
A practical preparation 500 stir and application in the permaculture garden at Korito in New Plymouth.
An introduction to the biodynamic moon planting calendar and how it is used to find the best times to sow seeds, transplant, make compost, put on fertilisers and sprays and prune and chop firewood.
Full detailed handouts on biodynamics and the moon planting calendar and copies of the calendar months to get you started.
All day workshop – 9.00am-5.00pm with a break for morning and afternoon tea which will be provided. Bring something for a shared lunch – $100 per person.