Starting a Home Orchard with Heritage Varieties

Have you ever wanted to grow your own apples? In this program, Kyle Nagy, the University of Idaho’s Orchard Operations Manager at the Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center, will focus on recommendations and considerations when starting a home orchard with heritage apple varieties. Topics such as site assessment and preparation, soil evaluation, and variety selection will be included to give you a thorough look at the planning and preparation that goes into establishing a successful home orchard. The program will end with a Q &A period.

Not able to attend in person? Stream it with staff at the Clark Fork Library or join from home via Zoom!

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Meeting ID: 335 982 4895
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Presenter Bio:
Kyle Nagy is the superintendent and orchard operations manager at the University of Idaho’s Sandpoint Organic Agriculture Center (SOAC) and co- founder of the Heritage Orchard Conference. SOAC is the university’s only agricultural research station dedicated to sustainable and organic production and research. The orchard at SOAC, which Kyle has managed since 2011, has 68 varieties of hardy apples, mostly heritage varieties, along with a handful of pear, plum and cherry varieties. He received his bachelor’s in horticulture from the University of Minnesota and his master’s in environmental science at the University of Idaho. Kyle specializes in organic orchard management and regenerative agriculture.