{"id":17496,"date":"2022-02-23T01:26:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T01:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17496"},"modified":"2022-02-22T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T21:28:14","slug":"library-slates-talk-on-tree-pruning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/23\/library-slates-talk-on-tree-pruning\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Slates Talk On Tree Pruning\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Hailey Public Library will host an online workshop with arborist Linda Ries who will speak about \u201cThe Art of Fruit Tree Pruning\u201d on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Ries will describe when and how to prune different types of fruit trees to promote strong branch structure and increase fruit size. RSVP to kristin.fletcher@haileypubliclibrary.org.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAs winter gives way to spring, many gardeners know it\u2019s time to get out and prune fruit trees so they\u2019re more productive come summertime,\u201d commented Kristin Fletcher, the library\u2019s programs and engagement manager. \u201cCorrect pruning can make a huge difference. Linda is a highly qualified arborist with extensive experience working with fruit trees in community settings.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linda Ries has a B.S. in forest biology from Colorado State University. She is a certified arborist with the International Society of Arboriculture since 1996 and has served on the Hailey Tree Committee since 2015 and is currently chair. She is the former community forester for the Sawtooth National Forest and was the conservation education coordinator for the Forest Service\u2019s Intermountain Region. In 1996, she established the Native Plant Arboretum, located near the intersection of the Blaine County Recreation District bike path and Fox Acres Road in Hailey.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hailey Public Library will host an online workshop with arborist Linda Ries who will speak about \u201cThe Art of Fruit Tree Pruning\u201d on Thursday, Feb. 24 at 5:30 p.m. Ries will describe when and how to prune different types of fruit trees to promote strong branch structure and increase fruit size. RSVP to kristin.fletcher@haileypubliclibrary.org.\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,78,84,18,20,32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-hailey","8":"category-in-brief","9":"category-news","10":"category-nonprofit","11":"category-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17499,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17496\/revisions\/17499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}