Learn to Plant /Prune Elderberries and Paw Paw
Sat, Oct 14, 2023, 8 AM – 5 PM
Take Aways from the Event
You’ll learn how to
- prune elderberries
- plant elderberries
- plant paw paw trees
Experience
- actually pruning elderberry plants
- planting elderberry and paw paw plants
Bring home (included in the ticket cost)
- enough elderberry cuttings to start your own elderberry patch
Optional
- purchase honey from our farm to make your own elderberry infused honey
- purchase frozen elderberries (subject to availability)
- purchase infused honey from our farm (subject to availability)
Agenda on Saturday
8:00-8:30 – Welcome and Breakfast – breakfast will be sausage biscuits from a local restaurant
8:30 to 12:00
Demonstration – how to prune elderberry bushes
Practical – prune elderberries and take home elderberry cuttings so you can grown your own elderberry plants
Demonstration – how to plant elderberries
Practical – plant elderberries
12:00 to 1:00
Lunch – provided by a local restaurant
1:00 to 3:00
Practical – finish planting elderberries
Demonstration – making infused elderberry honey
3:00 to 4:45
Demonstration – Planting Paw Paw trees
Practical – Plant Paw Paw trees
4:45 – 5:00 – Wrap up / final Q&A
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Connie has her certificate in Sustainable Agriculture from CCCC. She really enjoyed the classes at the community college and learned a lot. The program was a mixture of classes and work on the school farm. What she learned has really added to our technical proficiency on the farm.