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Lost Nation Orchard


June 8 & 9, 2024 

Hands-on learning with Mike Biltonen
of Know Your Roots

 

This Orchard Intensive begins Saturday morning on June 8 at 10am and runs through Sunday afternoon June 9, till 4ish.

 

Cost: $350 includes instruction, materials, meals (lunch and dinner on Saturday; breakfast and lunch on Sunday) along with the cider tasting on Saturday evening.

To register, send a check to Heartsong Farm at this address:

Heartsong Farm

859 Lost Nation Road

Northumberland, NH 03582

 

or send $350 via PayPal to LostNationOrchard.NH@gmail.com 

Holistic Orchard Intensive

For many years Michael has offered an apple intensive weekend here at our Lost Nation Orchard. This annual event has been a long time favorite. Michael did the teaching and Gracie and Nancy did the cooking.

This year, Gracie will give a tour of our Lost Nation Orchard and we have invited Todd Parlo to carry on this tradition as our featured teacher. Todd is an experienced teacher whose orchard work and philosophy aligns with ours. Todd and Michael have been friends and fellow orchardists for years, so we know Michael would approve!

This organic apple everything weekend with Todd Parlo inspires people to pursue their own orchard dreams. Come gain the practical insights needed to establish your own fruit planting based on the biological systems approach used here at Lost Nation Orchard.

Holistic orcharding involves a wide breadth of knowledge and timeliness, yet one fact stands clear – we can have beautiful fruit grown without chemical intervention. Regenerative agriculture thrives when we have fun and get people involved with growing healthy food in the places where we each live. This course points the way for all orchardists to meet their unique site challenges. Our time together ends with a rambunctious wassail sure to kindle those hopes of offering the good fruit to one's own family and community.

Tree-Focused Curriculum

Participants will review the orchard season. We will discuss the key role understory management and soil health plays in a biological orchard, and look at varietal and rootstock choices. Pruning, grafting, branch training, and trunk protection will be woven into our time together along with a look at righteous equipment for small-scale orchards. Insect and disease dynamics will be reviewed from a holistic perspective aimed at achieving maximum diversity, pointing out a few of the culprits and beneficial allies on hand. Check out this past syllabus for fuller detail.

 

 

a view of Lost Nation Orchard in bloom

What better place than here to learn about biological approaches to growing healthy fruit?

 

 

 
I mark as an important life pivot my experience of coming to see the deep web of relationships in the natural world through your books and the orchard intensive. Once you grasp the paradigm and gain the tools to engage and observe, the practice is endlessly fascinating. Entry for me was the key, and I thank you for that.
Pete Lankford, New Hampshire

 

 

Seeing your farm firsthand after years of evolution was amazing. You share your orcharding knowledge with such passion that we [the students] go home fully enthused to do right by our trees.
Ian Colquhoun, New Jersey


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