Upcoming Events

Pruning For Tree Health, Aesthetics, and Fruit Production

Jeremy will be teaching a couple of short, hands-on workshops this month on maintaining dormant fruit trees. Topics covered will be tools and tool maintenance, pruning techniques, timing, disease prevention, and grafting for season extension.

Sunday Jan 10th, 12-1pm
Thornhill Nursery
6250 Thornhill Dr, Oakland, CA 94611

Saturday Jan 30th, 12-1:30 pm
Ploughshares Nursery
2701 Main Street Alameda, CA 94501

Both are free and open to the public. 
More to come in February. . .
Silvopasture Workshop!
Jeremy will be teaching this hands-on course with Guido Frosini of True Grass Farms.  Come learn about broad-acre food forests and dine on some of the finest pastured meats around.  You will actively co-design and help us install the first phase of a massive (1000+ acre) silvopasture project that will outlive all of us!   Visit truegrassfarms.com/workshops for more info and to register. 
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Special thanks to our friends at Permies.com!

Creating Drought-Resilience In the Garden
Saturday, May 30th at 2-3:30PM: Ploughshares Nursery (2701 Main St, Alameda) 
Jeremy Watts will be visiting to talk about strategies for optimizing your landscape and garden’s resilience in dry times.  Topics covered will include a sampling of appropriate fruit trees and other landscape plants, building soil that holds water, dry-farming, drip irrigation, and a wide array of easily applicable water management techniques.    

Workshop - Urban Food Forests: Designing and Creating Resilient, Tree-Based Plant Communities - Saturday, March 21st, 2015


with Jeremy Watts & Seth Peterson

Saturday, March 21st, 2015, 12 - 4 pm in South Berkeley

A food forest is more than an orchard, more than a grove of fruit trees. It is a holistically designed system that accounts for all of the elements necessary to create an edible ecology. An urban food forest grows into a self-sustaining system that provides abundance for decades. Thoughtful design creates a system that becomes ever easier to maintain as the community of plants take charge and we become observant stewards who are a beneficial part of the natural world around us. They are systems that regenerate our natural world and reverse the damage caused by pollution and modern chemical agriculture while providing food, medicine and more. This hands-on workshop will cover:

  • An overview of permaculture design principles and how to learn from Mother Nature through observation.

  • Selection of appropriate trees and support species (plants and mushrooms) to create low- input, low-maintenance ecological systems in urban areas.

  • Water-conservation techniques and drought-resistant species.

  • How animals fit into a food forest.

  • Site assessment, preparation, design, implementation and maintenance.

  • Fruit tree care: pruning, feeding, holistic disease & pest management.

  • Season-extension via custom grafting.

  • The ongoing joy of perpetuating and eating from your food forest garden!

    The workshop will go from 12 noon to around 4PM and will be led by edible landscaper Jeremy Watts and permaculture chef chef Seth Peterson. Snacks and refreshments will be served. The location is in south Berkeley not far from Ashby Bart. If you have questions you can send

    an email to jeremy@foodforestdesignworks.com. Participants will receive the course material literature and are encouraged to take notes as well. There are two work-trade positions available. Contact the email below if interested.

    Signup at http://www.foodforestdesignworks.com/events.html



This hands-on workshop will cover:

*  An overview of permaculture design principles and how to learn from Mother Nature through observation.

*  Selection of appropriate trees and support species (plants and mushrooms) to create low-input, low-maintenance ecological systems in urban areas.

*  Water-conservation techniques and drought-resistant species.

*  How animals fit into a food forest.

*  Site assessment, preparation, design, implementation and maintenance.

*  Fruit tree care: pruning, feeding, holistic disease & pest management.

*  Season-extension via custom grafting.

*  The ongoing joy of perpetuating and eating from your food forest garden!

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Participants will receive literature on the course material but are encouraged to take notes as well. 

There are two work-trade positions available.  Contact at the email below if interested.  

The workshop will go from 12 noon to around 4PM and will be led by edible landscaper Jeremy Watts and Permaculture practitioner Seth Peterson.  Snacks and refreshments will be served.   The location is in south Berkeley not far from Ashby Bart.   If you have questions you can send an email to jeremy@foodforestdesignworks.com

We hope you can join us!  Visit our Eventbrite page or register below.