- Date: March 13-14 (Saturday & Sunday)
- Time: Saturday 9-5, Sunday 9-3:30
- Cost: $200 includes lunch; overnight lodging-$50 includes breakfast
25 people from New Jersey and New York attended this workshop.
In this workshop you will learn how to
- design, plant, and maintain a beautiful and highly productive, integrated orchard free of chemicals
- weave nature's resiliency and mutually beneficial relationships into fruit and berry plantings
- improve the health and fruit from old, abandoned, or wild fruit trees.
Topics covered will include reliable sources for fruit and berry plants; animals in orchards; low-tech integrated water systems; beneficial understory plantings; aromatic pest confusers; pollinator habitats; biodynamic tree pasting; dwarf, semi-dwarf, and super dwarf fruit trees; and grafting.
Dress for hands-on learning in the orchard at the Community-Supported Garden at Genesis Farm.
Andrew Faust spent 8 years living off-the-grid in rural West Virginia. Since 2007 he has lived in Brooklyn, applying his knowledge to urban needs and working on the development of The Center for Bioregional Living in Ellenville, NY, a pilot campus for his New York City students and clients. Andrew has also taught permaculture design certification courses at Yestermorrow Design/Build school in Warren,VT. He studied Permaculture with Peter Bane. For more information about Andrew, visit his website.