Grafting Workshop

These workshops run by master grafters and fruit tree experts Wez Redden and Chris Day are hugely popular, leaving participants with a new skill and the tools to do more grafting at home.

Why would you want to learn the skill of grafting? It is a great way to create your own fruit trees, start a home orchard on a budget, grow rare or old fashioned varieties, or create multi-graft fruit salad trees (multiple varieties on one tree).

$139 + booking fee

About this Event

Our Grafting Workshops where master grafters and fruit tree experts Wez Redden and Chris Day (Every day Sustainable Living and @Cockatoo Creek Farm) will teach you everything you need to know about grafting including the theory and hands on demonstrations of grafting scions (delicious varieties of fruit) onto rootstocks (the strong roots to grow your fruit). Once you're comfortable, you will be able to graft your very own fruit trees to take home.

Each three hour workshop will include refreshments made from Sophie's Patch home grown produce.

Included:

The course includes a grafting knife, three rootstocks (one apple, one peach and one plum), a selection of scions for you to choose from (the fruit tree material you graft on top of the rootstock) and take home notes so you don't forget this amazing new skill.

Sophie will source left handed grafting knives (and highly recommended if you are left handed) for an additional $20.

Numbers are limited so get in early.

Event Policies

Weather

If the weather is extremely inclement Sophie may decide to cancel or reschedule the event. Please check your emails on the evening prior to the event.

What to wear and bring...

• Please wear sturdy, closed shoes to Shingleback Farm.

• Wear practical clothes and dress for the winter weather.

• Bring your camera.

• Leave your dog home.

• Bring a water bottle.