Events
Ingersoll Land Care regularly provides public educational opportunities for the community.
Check this events page for upcoming workshops, classes and presentations.
Tree Care for Gardeners
Fridays: Winter, 2022
Berkshire Botanical Garden, Stockbridge MA
An intense and entertaining primer for Gardeners, Caretakers, Property Owners and budding Arborists. Massachusetts Certified Arborist Tom Ingersoll will provide tips on proper pruning, selection, and how to know when it's time to call the pros. This class is under way but seats are still available. Register HERE.
Principles of Pruning
Pruning Shrubs for Structure and Sustainability
March, 2022
Ward's Nursery and Garden Center, Great Barrington MA
In this entertaining and interactive demonstration, Massachusetts Certified Arborists Tom and Melissa Ingersoll will give an overview of guidelines for pruning your landscape shrubs and hedges for health, form, fruit and flowers. Bring your clippers.
Register online for this event here.
Tree Care for Gardeners
TBA
Cape Cod Landscape Association - Annual Conference and Trade Show
A condensed, intense and entertaining primer for Gardeners, Caretakers, Property Owners and budding Arborists. Massachusetts Certified Arborist Tom Ingersoll will provide tips on ID, selection, planting, pruning and how to know when it's time to call the Certified Arborist.
Principles of Pruning
Pruning Shade trees and Ornamentals for Structure and Sustainability
TBA
In this entertaining and interactive demonstration, Massachusetts Certified Arborists Tom and Melissa Ingersoll will give an overview of guidelines for pruning trees for health, form, fruit and flowers. Bring your clippers.
Register online for this event here.
THOSE BELOW ARE PAST PRESENTATIONS. They may be offered again. Please email with presentation inquiries:
Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop
2015, 2016, 2017
Kellogg Conservation Center, South Egremont, MA
This one is going to be fun! Join Tom for a few hours in the orchard at the ATC's Kellog Center and learn the principles of pruning for form, flowers, fruit, disease and pest resistance, etc. Bring your favorite pruning tools so we can compare kits! For more info, email Adam Brown.
Sheffield Tree Project
Annual Arbor Day Celebration - Last Saturday in April, 2022
LOCATION TBD - Sheffield, MA
Ingersoll Land Care will be there to support the STP and share in the fun. Bring your shovel and join us for a Planting Demonstration, Arbor Day Proclamation, and...snacks!
Spanish in the Garden
Even if you're not a native Spanish speaker, you undoubtedly have Spanish-speaking colleagues, workers and friends. So how good is your conversational Spanish? Especially where it comes to trees (arboles), shrubs (arbolitos) and flowers (flores)? Learn the basics of how to communicate and create relationships in both languages. Bring your tongue.
