Grafting Workshop onto "Bradford" Pear Trees!

Learn a useful horticultural skill and transform
an invasive "Bradford" pear into a fruiting pear.

This workshop will include a review of the tools, techniques and benefits of bark grafting. Each participant will have the opportunity
to make a graft. We will also observe year-old grafts to see how they have
progressed in their 2nd year.

Grafting is a horticultural technique of joining two plants together
in order to benefit from the positive traits of the two plants. For example,
invasive Callery pears are vigorous but they make tiny, inedible fruit. By
cutting this tree and grafting on wood from a fruiting pear, we can produce
good fruit on a strong existing root.

Location: Forested in Bowie, MD. Click here for map.
The forest garden is in the field next to D&S General Store and Gas Station
located at 3507 Enterprise Road, Bowie, MD 20721. When you see the gas station,
you're very close. There is a yellow gate 100' south of the gas station.  

Benefits:

• You could transform invasive plants to fruit-producers in your
neighborhood!

• Learn and practice a valuable horticultural skill.

• Meet people with similar interests in forest gardening and
permaculture.

Register HERE!