Bud Grafting Heritage Fruit Tree Training (Woodbank)

As part of our new Agroforestry Farm project, we're going to be bud grafting 2000 fruit trees over the Summer months. 

What will the session look like?

You'll be learning how to bud graft onto Prunus rootstock at our purpose-built grafting stations. We've put up gazebos to help protect us from the weather and all the stations have been designed to enable social distancing. You'll receive guidance and training from our Agroforestry team, with plenty of opportunities to talk through the process. We'll also be providing safety equipment.

How physically demanding is grafting?

Grafting is fairly low impact and involves no heavy lifting. Grafting with knives involves carefully making safe cuts, which can be fiddly, but there will be plenty of opportunity to learn. If you have any access needs please let us know in advance and we will endeavour to meet them where possible. Just email us at volunteer@kindling.org uk. We have a lower table if you need to be seated, and have a range of tools for grafting.

Please note: We may have to cancel these sessions if it looks like its going to rain - wet weather is unfortunately a major infection opportunity for grafts!

We have some space to host more people if you're from the same household or bubble. If this is the case, and you want to bring them along, please email volunteer@kindling.org uk for more info!