Permaculture Skills: Propagate Your Own Trees (with Guest Teacher)

This workshop is part of our 2026 Permaculture Skills series. You can learn about our other offerings here.

You Can Grow Way Too Many Trees in a Small Space!

Learn from an experienced tree grower how to start some of our most valuable native (and some non-native) trees from cuttings and seeds!

With air prune beds you can start a whole lot of trees for free. This is one way to make forest gardening and Permaculture much more affordable.

Air prune beds help trees develop strong root systems perfect for planting out in Spring. They require little maintenace and work with even a small space.

Soon, you’ll have more trees than you know what to do with…!

For this workshop, we’ve asked an awesome guest teacher to come in who has a lot of experience building and using air prune beds, as well as planting and taking care of lots of trees.

In this workshop, for a small materials fee, you’ll also be able to take home your own air prune bed! Add some compost and you’ll have everything you need to begin this year!

And, because this is one of our workshops, there will be a whole lot of learning about the uses / gifts of trees, ways to plant them for windbreaks, hedge rows, privacy screens, to restore land, and in a food forest. Really, try to make us stop talking about trees. We can’t.

Price and exact date are still being finalized for this workshop… stay tuned! We expect it to be Nov 7 and if it moves, it will be to another Saturday in November. We’ll send out an email and update this page later this month and tickets will go on sale then.

This workshop will take place in the morning. Another Permaculture Skills workshop on mushrooms and growing mushroom logs will be in the afternoon. Sign up for one or both!