A series of online webinars introduce each topic. Each webinar is free to attend and involves a range of expert speakers from across the consortium. Hands-on workshops will follow in the UK, Sweden, Germany and project leaders Norway. The first UK-based workshop focuses on trained fruit and the UK team are keen to find a suitable location for the workshop. If you have or know of a garden with trained fruit, ideally a range of fruit types and ages, and would be willing to let a team of around 15 horticulturists loose on them for a couple of days in early September 2022, we would like to hear from you! The fruit need not be perfect – in fact, neglected forms would be very welcome.

Speakers: 
Susann Campbell
Andy Lewis, The Newt, Somerset
Hilary Theaker, Hampton Court
Ceridwen Davies, Dyffryn
Herve Mauclere, Yvette Vallée
– and more.

Topics: 
– The importance of wall fruit in the history of kitchen gardens
– Exploiting microclimates for a wide range of fruit: how a new design utilises historic knowledge to react to affects of climate change
– Fruit growing as an art form
– Walls, wires, tags and trellises
– Choice of cultivars and rootstocks. Pruning Lorette v. modified Lorette
– Indoor trained fruit: peaches, grapes and figs
– Fruit growing in Community settings: training people to train fruit

Time for the online Webinar:
15.03.2022 from 09:00 – 16:00 (Timezone GMT+0:00)
– with a two hour-break from 12:15 to 14:15
Please pay attention to the timezone:
Scandinavian and German time: 10:00 – 17:00
Russian time: 12:00 – 19:00

Sign-up

Program

If you would like to chat about a garden or other managed space with trained fruit that might be available to host a workshop, please contact catherine.nicoll@vea-fs.no.