Title: Urban Farm Tour
Location: 6750 N 13th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85014
Start Time: 11:00 am
Date: 2010
End Time: 12:30 pm

Title: Urban Farm Tour
Location: 6750 N 13th Place, Phoenix, AZ 85014
Description: Come and visit the Urban Farm on an owner led tour of his 1/3 of acre homesite in North Central Phoenix that includes over 80 fruit trees, a primarily edible landscape, rain and greywater, solar panels and more.
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2010-02-27
End Time: 10:30

The Phoenix Permaculture Guild offers a plethora of classes on gardening, composting, keeping chickens, preserving food and much more.  Check out their website for more information http://www.PhoenixPermaculture.org

Planting and maintaining a garden in the desert calls for a very specific plan of action. The Urban Farm & Your Guide To Green is offering a free comprehensive guide on desert planting and harvesting, all in the easy-to-read layout of a calender.

From artichoke to watermelon, this calender provides dates and circumstances for desert planting. Along with this information, you’ll receive tips on each individual plant and how to care for it during the growing process.

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Hey all,

For those of you that know me or have read my blog you know how much I love fruit trees. So much so that I have over 80 fruit trees planted at the Urban Farm and another 60 or so planted in my neighborhood. A big part of how we manage these trees is that we keep them small with a process called Urban Orcharding. We keep them small by pruning them from a very early age and then keep up with the pruning every year.

My goal at the Urban Farm is to get to a place where I am able to harvest fruit all year around. Well I am getting there and it looks like this:

• November through April – Oranges and tangerines – these store really well on the tree.
• April – Loquats – A really nice tropical fruit resembling an apricot.
• May through July – Peaches, apricots, plums and grapes – these don’t store well on the tree well therefor I have planted different varieties that ripen at different times. This is called successive ripening.
• June through August – Apples – These store well on the trees as well.
• August and September – Asian pears and pomegranates.

Check out this video on urban orcharding.  Also here is a really great article on creating your own urban orchard.

Greg

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