Applewood Permaculture: Tree Pruning & Grafting Workshop - Mar 2026

📅 March 7, 2026 | 📍 Applewood Permaculture Centre, Herefordshire, UK | 🏷️ workshop

Join the Fruit Tree Pruning and Grafting Workshop at Applewood Permaculture Centre on March 7, 2026, a must-attend for permaculture enthusiasts, regenerative farmers, and orchard stewards committed to building resilient food systems. Facilitated by expert Chris Evans, this in-depth session at the renowned Herefordshire UK permaculture hub teaches vital techniques for maintaining and propagating fruit trees, crucial for agroecology and sustainable agriculture. Ideal for homesteaders, community gardeners, and professional growers, participants will master pruning methods to optimize tree health, yield, and longevity—learning summer and winter cuts, disease management, and shaping for permaculture guilds. The grafting segment covers whip-and-tongue, bud grafting, and chip budding, enabling you to create disease-resistant varieties and diversify heritage fruits adapted to changing climates. Hands-on practice on real orchard trees ensures skills transfer directly to your site, with emphasis on observing tree language, soil interactions, and biodiversity enhancement. For permaculture practitioners, this is invaluable: fruit trees form the backbone of food forests, providing perennial yields, habitat, and ecosystem services while reducing annual labor. Attendees gain confidence in scaling orchards, preserving genetic diversity amid biodiversity loss, and integrating trees into regenerative designs for carbon sequestration and soil regeneration. Why attend? In an era of food insecurity, these skills future-proof your yields against pests, weather extremes, and scarcity, aligning with permaculture's core of caring for the earth through productive, low-input systems. Leave equipped with tools, grafts to take home, and a network of like-minded growers. Applewood's legacy in permaculture education makes this a gold-standard event, blending theory with fieldwork in a supportive, inspiring setting surrounded by demonstration gardens showcasing successful applications. Transform your vision of abundant, self-sustaining orchards into reality.