NMSU Fruit Tree Grafting Workshop

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Fruit Tree in Chamisal, NM -Photo taken by Juliet Garcia-Gonzales
 

Grafting is very useful in fruit tree production for both commercial growers and home gardeners. It is a technique used to propagate a tree's unique cultivars, to have multiple cultivars in the same tree to keep heirloom cultivars alive, or to introduce pollinizer varieties to a solitary tree.
 
New Mexico State University's College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences is hosting a grafting/budding workshop
 
Tuesday, July 25, 2017
NMSU's Sustainable Agriculture Science Center in Alcalde
6:00pm-7:30pm

 

Following the presentation, there will be a one-hour, hands-on grafting session.
 

"Please bring a small, sharp knife or grafting knife to participate in the hands-on session"
 
The workshop is limited to 20 participants.

To register call Anna at (505) 852-4241. To register online visit http://rsvp.nmsu.edu/rsvp/fruitree2017.