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Bountiful veganic fruit trees and orchards

Length: 44 min.

If you’d like to plant fruit trees in your backyard, forest garden, or orchard, you’ll definitely want to check out this talk! Helen Atthowe will be sharing her strategies for planting fruit trees, and veganic fertilization methods using locally-grown plants. She’ll also be sharing her favourite cultivars of fruit trees that are delicious and have natural disease resistance. Plus tips for pruning fruit trees, and how to attract beneficial biodiversity to alleviate insect pressures. With over 35 years of farming experience, including running a commercial veganic orchard, Helen is the reference for successful veganic fruit production!

Helen Atthowe

Helen Atthowe is the author of “The Ecological Farm: A Minimalist No-Till, No-Spray, Selective-Weeding, Grow-Your-Own-Fertilizer System for Organic Agriculture”. She has a master’s degree in horticulture from Rutgers University, and has worked for 35 years to develop ecological farming management strategies. She currently farms and does research on her new 5 acre farm in Western Montana. Previously, Helen and her late husband owned a 211 acre organic farm in Eastern Oregon experimenting with grow-your-own fertilizer and no-till orchard and vegetable production methods. Before this, Helen operated with her late husband their certified organic orchard in California where they pioneered no-till methods for raising apples, peaches, and other tree fruits without the use of any type of pesticides. Earlier, Helen also owned and operated a 30 acre certified organic vegetable and fruit farm in Montana.