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Schedule
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Saturday May 10 Pruning Fruit
This course will be re-scheduled. Canceled at this time
Basics of pruning - method, timing, tools and after care.
Pruning Trees with a special focus on fruit trees – How, when & why
to prune. Do’s & don’ts. Hands on pruning of saskatoons, black
currants, cherries, apples. Stake some dwarf apples. After
you help prune our 15 acres you will be pros. Just kidding! Dress
appropriately, classroom and field instruction. Espalier -
what it is and lets do a few!
Minimum
10 people. $40.00 10:00 to 11:30 followed by question and answers
with our world famous pie and coffee included.
Dress
appropriately, classroom and field instruction.
*
$40.00 By Arden
Sunday May 11 Mothers Day
Growing Funky Food Plants
This course will be re-scheduled. Canceled at this time
Learn all about growing exotics on your deck and in your yard. How
about blue potatoes! Did you know you can grow citrus, figs and
pomegranates on your deck? Includes a yummy crepe brunch with
fruit toppings. Bring your favorite fruit recipe for an exchange.
Good discussion about the health benefits of these very nutritious
prairie fruits.
Minimum 10 people 10:00 to 11:30 $3.00 off with a recipe! Bring
a friend, bring your mother.
Saturday May 17 The blossoms are on!
Enjoy our orchards in full bloom! In Japan they have a word for
this experience - Blossom Bathing. Take pictures of your beloveds
in the fields and join our photo contest. (Details to follow.)
Walking tours with explanation on pollination and the complexities
of flowers. Learn about the nature of how fruits are formed, how
they are helped by insects, wind and weather.
Tours starting at 11:00 am and again at 3:00 pm
Free admission; Tours $5.00 Tours by Arden
Saturday May 31 First time gardener
Learn the basics of gardening and keeping plants alive. How to
plant, what to plant, where and how to maintain, fertilize and
keep your weeds under control.
10:00 - 11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous
pie and coffee included. Minimum of 10
Dress appropriately, classroom and field instruction.
*
$40.00 By Maria
Saturday
June 7 Basic Fruit Growing
Learn how much is possible for growing fruit in your backyard or
your acreage. Site location, how to plant, prune and grow many of
the various fruits hardy on the prairies now.
10:00 - 11:30 followed by question and answers with our world
famous pie and coffee included. Minimum of 10
Dress appropriately, classroom and field instruction.
* $40.00
By Arden
Saturday
June 14 Design an Edible Eden!
Learn the basics of a good landscape design and incorporate
ornamental fruit in your landscape. Start to think about
structures, color combinations, bloom times, combining leaf forms,
depth, focal points. Bring a scale drawing of your yard and
leave with some great ideas. Good for new yards and upgrades of
established yards. Registration includes: lunch, drawing paper
(11x17), photocopying, drafting pencils, “Trees and Shrubs for the
Prairies”
10:00 -
11:30 Classroom instruction
11:30 -
12:00 Lunch
!2:00 –
2: 00 Guided working on your own design
Minimum
of 8 and maximum of 10
*
$75.00 By Maria
June
15 Sunday - Father's Day On the mechanical side
Macho Orchard equipment demo / show. Fruit Combine! – Take a look
at our over the row berry harvester. Designed for people just
curious, not necessarily interested in commercial growing. Review
of fruit cleaning equipment such as our saskatoon cleaner and our
cherry pitters (large and small). Careful we might put you to
work! Planters, mulchers, old tractors… Tours by Mr. Dave
Delidais himself! We hope he is available. If not, Arden will do
the show and tell.
Tours at
11:00 and again at 3:00
BBQ
lunch available from 12.00 - 2:00 for $12.00
Free
tours
Saturday June 21 Pests: The Good, The Bad, The Cute & The
Destructive
Critters
– Things that bother your garden fruit and what to do. Proper ID is
a good start. Learn about insects, diseases & foragers. We talk
about Organic Methods. What if all else fails? When to let nature
take it’s course and good pest resistant plants. Walk about to see
what we can show and tell you about.
10:00 -
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie and
coffee included.
Dress
appropriately, classroom and field instruction. Minimum of 10
* $40.00
By Arden
Saturday
June 28 More Than a Row Fruit Growing
(Semi)
Commercial Fruit Production Thinking about growing fruit? Join us
for an informative, fun, tasty day! Learn all about Haskaps,
Cherries, Black Currants, Saskatoons, Gooseberries, Apples and tree
fruits. Learn the pros and cons of all the above fruits - how
to grow well - site selection - equipment, etc. Tour our commercial
harvesting equipment and sample the fruits. Classroom setting and
field browsing. Dress for the weather.
Lunch
included, full of (you got it) the fruits we grow.
10:00 to
2:00 Minimum of 10
* $75.00
By Arden
Saturday July 5 Honeyberries
History,
botany, varieties, tasting and walking tour. Everything you wanted
to know about honeyberries - how to plant and grow, nutrition.
10:00 -
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie and
coffee included.
Dress
appropriately, field instruction. Minimum of 10
* $40.00
By Lisa
Saturday July 12 Put the art back into wine making!
The
harvest is coming quickly! DNA Gardens has brought in expert wine
maker Karl Hansen. There is a lot more to making wine than buying a
wine kit. This is an art folks! Karl re-invents this ancient lost
art of fruit in and delightful wine out. Learn about the equipment,
acid levels, hydrometers, blending and other techniques and
principals. Karl will have many recipes, suggestions and ideas.
This is a crammed session and Karl will be back to follow up with
any questions you may have on July 26th.We would love to hold this
session annually to compare notes and wines. Of course, the
horticulturalists will get involved and discuss new grapes from
Little Fat Wino, other new and coming grapes, Lambert beer, Kirsch.
Bring some of your own brew for sampling if you wish. We encourage
it!
10:00 to
1:00 Minimum of 10
$50.00
*
Price and more details to be determined. Course by Karl
Hansen Hosted by Manasso,
Saturday July 19 Let's talk about Lilies!
Guest speaker! The world famous Dr. Evans! Martagons,
Western Wood Lilies, Martasians, Orienpets - Lilies in General –
biology, tissue culture. What is new and coming?
10:00 to
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie
and coffee included. Minimum of 10
* $40.00
By Dr.Evans
Saturday July 26 Saskatoon Festival
Lots going on this day! Our Saskatoon shrubs are loaded
with fruit. Time to enjoy our heritage. Taste 17 different types
of saskatoons. Hayrides through the scenic hills of DNA gardens.
Learn how these native fruits are a part of cultural heritage!
Hayrides / Tours at 11:00 and again at 3:00
Wine
Making by Karl Hansen 10:00 - 10:30 and again at 2:00 to
2:30
(Just enough to pique your interest!)
( Karl will also be available to
answer questions from the course offered July 12.
Free
admission, Free tasting (no buckets please!) UPIK is available or
picked fruit.$5.00 per adult for wine sessions, $5.00 for quided
hayrides.
Saturday
August 23
Cherry Time
The cherries are ready! Did you know we have so many hardy
varieties on the prairies and that you can make so many yummy things
with them? Come out and taste the different varieties and try our
different products we sell made with our own cherries. We all know
about the jam and the pie, but what about toppings on ice cream or
even cherry sausage? Or join one of the tours and learn about
everything you always wanted to know about dwarf cherry trees for
the prairies. 6 University of Saskatchewan Cherry varieties, Rose
and Evans, Mongolian, Sandcherry. How to grow, plant, harvest and
nutrition. Look at Evans cherry grafted onto Pincherry.
Walking tours starting 11:00 and again at
3:00.
Tours $5.00 Free admission, free cherry
tasting, By
Arden
Saturday August 30 Extend your season
So many of us have blanks in our yards once we hit the dog days of
August and September. There are many plants that keep the interest
right up to frost or even longer. Learn about them and make nice
combinations.
10:00 to
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie and
coffee included.
Classroom and field instruction. Dress according to the weather.
Minimum of 10
* $40.00 By Maria
Saturday
September 6 Apples
– Guest
Speaker - The famous Dr. Evans! Lots of good quality apples. Learn
how to plant and grow. Walking tour, espalier apples, tasting, show
& tell. Bring your apples and we will try and ID for you. This
will be a good one you do not want to miss.
10:00 to
11:30
Minimum
of 10.
Includes
coffee and baked apple.
*
$50.00 By
Dr.
Evans
Saturday
September 13 Basic Propagation
From seed to tissue culture, and everything in between. Hardwood
cuttings, softwood cuttings, dividing, with a specific focus on
tissue culture. And why one method would work better than the
other. We will harvest our blue and red potatoes we have grown
from tissue culture. And then, we will bake them and eat them!
10:00 to
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie and
coffee included.
Classroom and field instruction, dress appropriately. Minimum of 10.
*
$40.00 By Arden
Saturday, September 20 Bask in fall and winter colour!
Design to enjoy the other 7 months! Sounds dismal … 7 months!
Exactly our point. Learn how to enjoy our major scape … winter.
10:00 to
11:30 followed by question and answers with our world famous pie and
coffee included. Minimum of 10
*
$40.00 By Maria
Saturday,
September 27 Fall and Winter Baskets
Create
your own fall and winter outdoor bouquets in a barrel, for decks,
entrances, porches. Bring home a basket full of winter interest to
put on your porch or deck. Minimum of 10. Prices to be
determined.
By
Teresa
REGISTRATION
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Pre-registration recommended for the courses marked with a * .
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Get
$2.50 EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT if you pre-register a week ahead.
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You will
get a $5.00 coupon for every course you attend with a * . Coupons
can be used towards another course.
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All
courses can be subject to some changes so please check the internet
site for updates.
THE
LEGEND!
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Our
courses are colour coded and rated for the type of audience:
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General
Gardeners
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(Semi)
Commercial
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Event
SPEAKER
BIOS
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Arden
Delidais
Arden (the A in DNA), graduated from Olds College with a Diploma in
Horticulture in 1975. She speaks and writes articles regularly.
She has taught courses at Olds College, Devonian Gardens, Calgary
Zoo and various horticultural associations. Arden, with her partner
in time Dave, has been growing fruit in central Alberta for 32
years. This makes them owners of the oldest commercial Saskatoon
patch in the province! They have contributed to the industry over
the years in many ways, and continue to do so.
Maria
and Manasso
New to the DNA Gardens team, this couple immigrated from Holland in
2005, where they had a design and landscape business for more than
10 years and have been involved in horticulture for over 20 years.
Since they came in Alberta they have been working and learning how
to blend our hardy plant material into their European based
designs. We are very pleased to have this couple work with us.
Teresa
Long
Teresa is a Landscape Journeyman & has been with DNA for 6 years.
She has managed the tissue culture lab since 2004, and is a wealth
of unusual information.
Dr.
Evans
Many have heard of Dr. Ieuan Evans (Doc.E.). My Dave likes to call
him the Don Cherry of Horticulture. He is often called Dr. Copper
as a result of his work involving plant nutrition, specifically -
copper. There really is not much in horticulture that Dr. Evans
does not know about. For informative and entertaining sessions,
catch Dr. Evans.
Mr. Dave
Dave Delidais (the D in DNA), & infamous partner in crime to Arden.
Dave is a farm raised licensed mechanic, oilfield consultant, and
has a wealth of planting, growing and field experience.
Lisa
Kamp
Graduate from Olds College of Horticulture and has been growing and
working with DNA Gardens for five years.
Karl
Hansen
Karl started making wine in 1966. He got so enthused he went right
into the business opening the first winemaking store in Winnipeg
under the trade mark, Wine Art. Eventually, he owned 9 Wine Art
stores from Calgary to Wisconsin. Karl has taught many wine making
courses for his own retail operations and even for T.V. He is very
proud of his Dubonnet made from a blend of nanking cherries,
raspberries and saskatoons. The stones from the nankings impart a
slightly nutty character that enhances the end product. He likes to
add herbs and brandy to the final wine which results in an aperitif
which is very nice before a meal. Karl knows wine and we are very
pleased to have him present!
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