Greg’s Guide To Choosing Fruit Trees

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The first topic in our 2021 Fruit Tree Education series focuses on What to know BEFORE you buy Fruit Trees. How to choose the best fruit trees for your space and the low desert climate. Did you know that you can go into some nurseries and every big box store and they will sell you a fruit tree that will never make fruit? There are three key things that you need to know before you purchase a tree so that in 3 years you are harvesting the fruits of your labor for decades to come! Plus you will learn urban orchard skills and discover how and why it is best to keep your fruit trees small. Then we will dive into some of the best varieties for the low desert.

“Greg’s FAVORITE Fruit Trees For Phoenix”

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The third topic in our 2021 Fruit Tree Education Series. A breakdown of the best trees for the low desert. Discover which trees have won Greg’s approval for taste and harvest success. People often ask me what fruit tree should I buy? I then ask “what do you like to eat?…plant that!” Over the years I have experimented with many different varieties of trees and I have come up with my favorite trees and bushes to grow…because they work here, taste great, and produce over the long term.

425: Katie Fiore on Sweet Potatoes and Fruit Trees

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Building a living green mulch – After a long career in retail, Katie Fiore knew it was time for a change. Part of her future vision was a backyard full of fruits and vegetables. The other part was a flexible, fulfilling lifestyle educating others. Katie discusses changing her life direction at 37 years old, how…

176: Cory Williams on Tropical Fruit Trees

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Greg meets Cory, a man who could not take ‘You can’t do that’ for an answer. Cory has transformed his home just outside of Phoenix to his own tropical fruit forest paradise using micro-climates, observation, experimentation, and frankly ignoring naysayers.  His interest started with a few wine grapes and he got bit by the growing bug as he now has over 150 trees on his urban property and is not done trying new things.