CSP-4000DS - Fruit Selection for the Landscape

Course Description

Grow your own backyard orchard with the best fruit trees – from traditional favorites to more unusual varieties. When choosing the best fruit trees to grow in your garden, prioritize the fruits you most enjoy eating. Nurturing your own home-grown fruit is so rewarding and the produce tastes far superior to anything you can buy. It’s important to choose plants that are adapted to this area, easy to grow, have a long harvest season, and don’t require pesticides.

Join our gardening guru, David Goforth, for a fun morning of learning at Lomax Research and Education Farm. David has been a life-long farmer. He attended North Carolina State University to earn his BS and Master of Horticultural Science and in addition to managing his own farm, he has spent his career educating our community about local agriculture through his work as a teacher, extension agent and horticulture consultant for local farms.

*The Elma C. Lomax Research and Education Farm (Lomax) is a certified organic farm located in Concord, NC. Launched in 2009 by the Cabarrus County government and Cooperative Extension as a training ground for new farmers, the farm has evolved into a research and education farm managed by Carolina Farm Stewardship Association.