Apple Grafting Workshop
Ben Elms will be conducting a hands-on apple grafting demonstration on Saturday, 19 September. Come along to this apple grafting workshop at the Queenstown Harvest Community Gardens on Gorge road. You will graft two apple trees on the day to take home with you, with the option to buy more rootstock to graft more apples.
On the day we will have 14 different heritage apples to choose from. Ranging from Cox’s Orange to Keswick Codling to Gravenstein. Lots of tasty apple varieties to choose from. It’s easy to do, you don’t need to know anything. So come along and learn the not so dark art of apple Grafting. Pictured are two trees that were grafted at Ben’s last workshop he held back in 2020 that started fruiting after three years.
Grafting is a great way of growing apple trees cheaply and preserving old heritage apple varieties, many of which aren’t available to buy commercially.
The workshop will run from 10am - 12pm. There’s a workshop at Queenstown Harvest Community Gardens on Saturday, 19 September, and a workshop at Hāwea Food Forest on Saturday, 12 September.
