Our friends and sponsors at Dave Wilson Nurseries have been such inspirations and guides in helping schools maintain their orchards. Just keep it small! They have a concise webpage that will give you the basics of this empowering approach to fruit trees.
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Starting this summer and fall Common Vision will be developing this online video series to help teachers, parents, community members, administrators, and students to care for their schoolyard orchards. (Teachers, please excuse the subject-verb agreement error: goals...is. )

In this short video, Demetrious introduces the basics of fruit trees. We learn how to identify vegetative growth vs fruiting buds, how to distinguish each year's growth, and where the fruit grows.

Our Dave Wilson friends show us how to thin the fruit of a schoolyard orchard

Here our Dave Wilson nurseries teach a little about early summer pruning and fruit thinning.

Before the Summer heat, all young fruit trees can benefit from painting the trunk. This protects against sunburn that can cause damage or even death of the tree. Here our friends at Dave Wilson's show us how.