The Community Orchard is located at the entrance to the Colorado Gulch Preserve on Red Feather Way. If you'd like a refresher ahead of the May 4th hands-on demo, a video of a fruit tree pruning presentation with arborist Linda Ries at the Hailey Library is available to watch here.

If have any questions, please email Keri York - or call our offices at 20! This workshop will be held in the Wood River Land Trust's Community Orchard, where students will have an opportunity to work with a variety of fruit trees. This workshop will cover topics such as choosing the most effective pruning tools and will demonstrate how to properly prune fruit trees to maximize their health and productivity. Plum trees can be trained to grow against a wall a vertical planting idea that looks beautiful and also means the trees take up less space in the garden. To find out more about this program or connect with Citizen Pruners in your community, please contact or (718) 701-4463.On May 4, at 5PM, we invite you to come and learn how to get your fruit trees ready for the growing season through pruning! With guest instructor, Kelsey Paxon, this fun, hands on and interactive workshop will be held in partnership with the Wood River Land Trust and the Hailey Tree Committee. Our partner organization Trees New York certifies residents as volunteer Citizen Tree Pruners who are allowed to prune street tree limbs in accordance with City regulations. Please contact your power utility company as they are under permit from Parks to handle these conditions. If the tree is entangled in electrical wires, our crews cannot prune the tree because of safety concerns around high voltage power lines.

Interference with a traffic signs or signals.

We do not take routine clearance pruning requests, but requests to prune for public safety are accepted via our tree service request system (or call 311) for conditions including:

This process allows us to prune a portion of the street trees in each community board every year.

Parks prunes established street trees on a neighborhood–by–neighborhood basis.

Pruning plum trees download free