🌿 V-Trellis Fruit Tree Pruning + Eucalyptus Canopy Planting Working Bee 🌱

🌿 V-Trellis Fruit Tree Pruning + Eucalyptus Canopy Planting Working Bee 🌱
Join Edible Streets in Ōtautahi Christchurch for a hands-on workshop and working bee focused on syntropic food forest development and practical orchard skills 🌳
We are a grassroots project building regenerative nursery systems and productive urban food forests through community collaboration.
📚 Workshop: V-Trellis Fruit Tree Pruning
Learn practical pruning and training techniques for productive fruit tree systems.
We’ll cover:
How to prune fruit trees into a V-trellis structure
Improving sunlight, airflow, and fruit production
Using simple support systems for structured growth
Long-term management of productive orchard rows
🛠️ Working Bee: Eucalyptus Support Canopy Planting
We’ll be planting eucalyptus trees as part of the support canopy system within the syntropic food forest.
This includes:
Planting fast-growing support species
Understanding canopy succession in syntropic systems
Creating shelter, biomass, and future mulch production
Building long-term ecosystem structure within the food forest
No experience needed — just come ready to learn and get hands-on 🌱
All skill levels welcome.
🧰 What to bring: 🧤 Gloves (optional but recommended)
👓 Eye protection
💧 Water bottle
👢 Sturdy footwear
🍲 Lunch provided
📍 Location: Climate Action Campus / Edible Streets, 35 Cowlishaw Street, Christchurch
⏰ Time: 10am – 2pm
💚 Free community event
👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Kid-friendly, family environment
Come learn practical orchard skills, help establish the next layer of the syntropic food forest, and be part of growing a regenerative future for Ōtautahi 🌏
📧 [email protected]
👉 Bring a friend and come grow with us 🌻
Edible Streets – Growing Communities, One Garden at a Time