Fruit and Orchard Production

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Fruit and Orchard Program Information

CAEP fruit and orchard placements include work with a variety of small fruit, soft fruit, and orchard fruit such as apples. These include smaller farm operations to larger commercial production operations. Farms typically use downloaded weather data and computer applications for pest management and other key farming decisions. A diversity of marketing options are available from learning about farmers markets, visitor tours, and wholesale packing and delivery.

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Fruit and Orchard Production Program Details

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Fruit and Orchard Production Program Details

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Program activities range from caring for orchards, including pruning and harvesting, transporting to market, marketing opportunities and farm maintenance. Participants should have the ability and interest in performing physical labor. Start dates are between March and July and end in October. There are a few 12-month placements available.

Skills to be learned may include:

  • Planting
  • Fertilizing
  • Irrigating
  • Weed and insect control
  • Pruning
  • Propagation
  • Pollination
  • Harvesting
  • Processing
  • Packaging
  • Storage
  • Distribution
  • Sales and Marketing (including farmer’s markets)

*Actual skills learned will vary by host and previous experience.

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