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Roaring Fork Valley
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshops 2025

Hosted by UpRoot Colorado, Colorado Edible Forest, Pitkin County Open Space, & CSU Extension 
Join us this spring for a series of free fruit tree pruning workshops throughout the valley!
Learn a new skill and get a free pruning tool.
Instruction in English with Spanish translation available upon request.

Saturday March 1st

Silt, CO

12:00pm - 4:00pm​​

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1215148524949

"Rain date": Sunday, March 2nd

Saturday March 8th

Thunder River area between Glenwood Springs, CO and Carbondale, CO

12:00pm - 4:00pm​​

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1215171814609

"Rain date": Sunday, March 9th

Pruning Workshop '25 English

Saturday March 22nd

Thunder River area between Glenwood Springs, CO and Carbondale, CO

12:00pm - 4:00pm​​

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1215182386229

"Rain date": Sunday, March 23rd

Saturday March 29th

Basalt/Emma, CO

12:00pm - 4:00pm​​

Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1215183810489

"Rain date": Sunday, March 30th

Pruning Workshop '25 Spanish

BONUS Fruit Tree Pruning Volunteer Day
Saturday Feburary 8th

Roaring Fork High School

2270 CO-133 Carbondale, CO

12:00pm - 4:00pm​​

To RSVP email mariah.foley@colostate.edu

Volunteer Pruning Day

Colorado Mountain College
Community Education Class

Pruning, Grafting, and Tools

Part I

Tool sharpening and understanding fruit tree grafting. Hands-on in the classroom: learn how to sharpen various garden tools using various sharpening equipment. Slideshow in the classroom: science behind fruit tree grafting, common fruit tree rootstocks, introduction to grafting methods.

 

Part II

Fruit tree pruning, shrub pruning, and scionwood collection. Slideshow in the classroom: understand the rationale for pruning fruit trees and berry bushes, pruning principles and rules of thumb, and scionwood collection. Hands-on at a local orchard: demonstration and practice of fruit tree pruning, shrub pruning, and scionwood collection.

 

Part III

Fruit tree propagation by grafting. Hands-on in the classroom: demonstration of various grafting methods and the opportunity to graft your own trees with personal instruction. Hands-on at a local orchard: demonstration of field grafting on fruit trees planted in the landscape.

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Saturday, February 15th, 12:00-4:00pm

Saturday, March 15th, 12:00-4:00pm

Saturday, April 12th, 12:00-4:00pm

 

To register, visit https://coloradomtn.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.ClassInformation&int_class_id=534

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