Open Orchard School: Fruit Tree Pruning

Learn how to prune your garden’s fruit trees to enhance their health and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. Prun­ing fruit trees can help them grow and thrive for years to come, shape the tree to fit your space, and keep the har­vest acces­si­ble from the ground.

Recip­i­ents of past Open Orchard fruit trees are invit­ed to join this work­shop for addi­tion­al train­ing on the upkeep of their trees and to choose scionwood to bring back to their gar­dens for grafting.

About the Facilitator

Sam Van Aken is a con­tem­po­rary artist who works beyond tra­di­tion­al modes of art mak­ing, cross­ing artis­tic gen­res and dis­ci­plines to devel­op new per­spec­tives on such themes as com­mu­ni­ca­tion, botany, agri­cul­ture, cli­ma­tol­ogy, and the ever-increas­ing impact of tech­nol­o­gy. Van Aken’s inter­ven­tions in the nat­ur­al and pub­lic realm are seen as metaphors that serve as the basis of nar­ra­tive, sites of place mak­ing, and in some cas­es even become the basis of sci­en­tif­ic research. The Open Orchard, his large-scale pub­lic art­work com­mis­sioned through Gov­er­nors Island Arts, is on view on Gov­er­nors Island.