Summer Fruit Tree Pruning

Fruit trees require year-round care, and summer pruning is critical to their health. Summer pruning allows air and light to reach fruits and lower branches, controls growth on vigorous trees, helps direct a tree's shape, and is an opportunity to remove dead, damaged, and dying wood. Our expert instructors will teach general pruning techniques, discuss the differences between summer and winter pruning, and lead a hands-on demonstration so you can learn which cuts will keep your trees healthy and productive.

Instructors Jamie Chan and Blas Hererra are San Francisco natives. Growing up among concrete and row houses only fueled their love of the outdoors. Now they tend a small homestead in San Francisco with their two daughters, complete with honey bees, chickens, a greenhouse, mini orchard, and vegetables. Blas has a degree in environmental studies and a certificate in sustainable design from the Urban Permaculture Institute of San Francisco. He is passionate about reuse and envisioning a garden as a closed system. Jamie has a masters in science from SF State University and is a certified UC Cooperative Extension Master Gardener. She loves the science behind gardening and sharing it in ways accessibe to everyone! You can often find them volunteering at their local community greenspace Sisterhood Gardens, posting on Instagram, and running their landscape/educational company Fog City Gardener. 

COVID-19 information:

• GFE Mask Guidelines: Masks are optional for vaccinated participants and required for all unvaccinated participants.
• Please bring your own gardening gloves for possibly hands-on activities
• You will be required to sign a liability waiver upon arrival.
• Please cancel your shift and do not come to GFE if you develop COVID19 symptoms on or before the day of your workshop (fever, chills, repeated shaking / shivering, cough, sore throat, shortness of breath, difficulty breathing, feeling unusually weak or fatigued, new loss of taste or smell, muscle pain, headache, runny or congested nose, or diarrhea)
• GFE will continue to monitor the COVID19 situation in San Francisco and make any necessary changes to the workshop based on City guidelines.

No walk-up registration permitted for this course. 

Full garden workshop schedule

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More about Jamie and Blas and our other Gardening Instructors

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Garden for the Environment, 1590 7th Avenue, San Francisco, United States