How can Fruit Trees Change your Life?

Your own fruit trees provide the freshest and tastiest fruit an arms distance away from home and also shade during the hot sunny summer months keeping you and your house cool. Believe it or not, they provide improved habitat and biodiversity in your own backyard. With a fruit tree you are basically improving your own house, your local neighborhood, and the whole environment. You are contributing to a more sustainable future.

You can multiply the number and diversity of fruit trees in your backyard yourself. Growing a fruit tree from seed will not give you the same type of tree it came from. The whole genetics of the tree will be different, leading to different properties of the fruit, most of the time inferior. By learning how to graft your own fruit tree you will be able to grow and reproduce your own fruit trees for you and your friends and family.

Grafting is the best and only way to start your own backyard orchard!

You can learn hands-on how to graft fruit trees at The Ecology Center, and at the same time contribute to their mission to create a healthy and abundant future for all. The Ecology Center offers several lectures, classes, tours, and events that bring awareness, knowledge and skills to living sustainably at the household and community level.

Fruit Tree Grafting & Propagation Backyard Skills workshop is this Saturday February 21, 2015 starting at 12pm at The Ecology Center. The center is located at 32701 Alipaz St. San Juan Capistrano, 92675. If you are interested in the hands-on workshop, tickets are available on The Ecology Center’s website: $35 for members and $45 for non-members. The proceeds support The Ecology Center’s non-profit eco-educational programs.