Learn recommended tools and techniques to promote health, aesthetics and production through the “right cut” in pruning various species and cultivars. Dress for the weather! After an indoor presentation, head outside for real-life pruning of the small fruit trees in the library’s Children’s Edible Garden. Plus, get instructive handouts and recipes from Rooted In, and information about the local Food Forest initiative.

Presenter: Andy DiMezza, arborist and graduate of the State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry. He has taught pruning classes in Milwaukee through the Victory Garden Initiative’s Fruity Nutty Program and the Peoples Orchard, and he now shares his expertise through the local nonprofit Rooted In, Inc. 

The Brown County Seed Library was funded via generous grants from Schreiber Foods