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Protect Your Fruit Trees and Your Harvest: Integrated Pest Management Made Easy

Protect your fruit trees and other crops from pests and diseases with scientifically-proven IPM techniques. Enroll in our online course now to learn effective crop protection with IPM tools!

This course will be relevant for you wherever you live.

  • $199

Managing Fruit Tree Pests & Disease (IPM)

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  • 65 Lessons

Have you ever felt like pests and diseases are hijacking your fruit trees, ruining your harvest and leaving you heartbroken? Fight back with this powerful online course! Learn how you to use Integrated Pest Management tools to protect your crops organically – and you won’t need to resort to chemical warfare. This course, made for both new and intermediate growers, is your ticket to a bountiful harvest. Prices in USD.

Three Reasons to Sign Up Today

 Your fruit trees are under attack. Common pests and diseases are waiting for an opportunity to strike, to weaken your trees and destroy your harvest. This online course is your secret weapon. It equips you with the know-how to identify threats and use  preventative tactics that are effective and environmentally-friendly. 

Here's what you'll learn: 

Identify Early Signs of Pests and Diseases

Prevention beats cure every single time. Detect early signs of trouble and nip pest and disease problems in the bud before they get out of hand.

Strengthen Tree Health by Boosting Immunity

A strong tree is better prepared to fight back against pests and diseases. Learn to use holistic sprays and techniques to strengthen your trees’ defences.

Limit Pesticides and Fungicides

Pesticides are your last resort, not your first. Get your hands on a wide range of non-toxic Integrated Pest Management tools, such as traps, barriers, pruning, farmscaping, and more.

Safeguard Your Harvest in an Eco-Friendly Way

 
Many sprays kill beneficial insects as well as insect pests. Learn Integrated Pest Management to protect both your harvest AND the environment.

This Course Includes:

Info-Packed Videos and Interactive Quizzes

Over 7 hours of informative video lessons to teach you the secrets of Integrated Pest Management (IPM).

Full-Colour eBooks and Worksheets

All the main tips and techniques highlighted in a full-colour eBook and simple to use worksheets. The perfect references to use in the field.

Lifetime Video Access

Download the videos and review your course as often as you like.

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Grow a harvest that you can be proud of.

What You Will Learn

 This unique course is made up of 5 comprehensive modules packed with 40 in-depth video lessons and includes quick quizzes to help you learn everything you need to know to protect your trees. 
Click the + sign to see individual lesson in each module.

Introduction to IPM

Your Course: A Guided Tour
101 Welcome to the Course!
102 History of Integrated Pest Management
103 What IPM is...and What it is Not
104 Four Approaches to IPM
105 Assignment 1: Find Your Resources
Mini Quiz 1: Introduction
Module 1 eBook (19 pages)

Non-Chemical IPM

201 Introduction and Worksheets
202 Cultural: Preparing the Site
203 Cultural: Good Habits
Mini Quiz 2: Cultural
204 Mechanical: Using and Maintaining Traps
205 Mechanical: Traps for Pest Reduction
Hands on: Make a Cherry Fruit Fly Trap and Submit Your Photo
206 Mechanical: Traps for Monitoring
207 Fruit Tree Traps eBook
208 Mechanical: Pruning, Sox and Nets
Case Study: City Fruit Seattle Installing Netting on a Full Sized Tree
Mini Quiz 3: Mechanical Tools
209 Biological: Boosting Biodiversity
210 Cover Crops
211 Root Stock Choices
Mini Quiz 4: Biological Tools, Cover Crops and Root Stocks
Module 2 eBook (51 pages)

Entomology and Pathology

301 Introduction to Entomology
302 Pest Identification Part 1
303 Pest Identification Part 2
Mini Quiz 5: Pest Life Cycles
304 Pest Identification Part 3 (V2)
305 Assignment 3: Pest Profiles
306 Symptoms and Signs eBook
Mini Quiz 6: Pest Identification
307 Introduction to Disease
308 Types of Diseases and Assignment 4
Mini Quiz 7: Disease Identification
Module 3 eBook (44 pages)

Chemical IPM: Using Organic Sprays

401 Introduction to Chemical IPM Module
402 What are Pesticides
403 Organic Spray Options
404 Spray Timing and Phenology
405 Blossom Phenology eBook and Poster
406 Spray Schedules and Assignment 5
407 Holistic Sprays
408 Susan's Dormant Spray Demonstration
Mini Quiz 9: Spray Schedules
409 Growing Degree Days Part 1
410 Growing Degree Days Part 2
411 Using Your GDD Spreadsheet
412 Downloading Weather Data
Mini Quiz 10: Growing Degree Days
413 Pesticide Safety and Storage
Module 4 eBook (53 pages)

Scouting Tools and Techniques

501 Introduction to Scouting and Record Keeping
502 Inspecting Trees and Thresholds
503 Using Pest and Disease Calendars
504 Using a Journal App
505 Creating Your Scouting Kit
Mini Quiz 11: Scouting and Thresholds
506 Joining a Network of Growers
Module 5 IPM eBook (16 pages)

Final Test and Next Steps

Final Test to Access Certificate
A Quick Review
All Course Downloads and Links
More Resources for You

Ready to Get Started?

Join now for stronger trees and bigger, better harvests! 

Don't take our word for it. See what students from around the world have to say about this course...

This course is designed for home growers, gardeners, small scale orchardists, arborists...and You! Our students come from across North America and around the world. Read what they have to say about the course!

Sheldon Callahan, Indiana, USA

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Your course was like getting the best of a university course but more practical and affordable and applicable.  The videos are informative and broken up in bite-size lessons and very professional.  The assignments are helpful.  The worksheets and resources are excellent.  I feel empowered and ready to start applying all the knowledge and practising the skills."

Patrick Kilkenny, Ohio, US

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This course has given me confidence in identifying the pests so that each season I can make an intelligent decision on whether to use an organic or chemical solution to combat it. If you want to win the battle I highly suggest you take this IPM course. 

Sara B, CT USA

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I had so many questions before starting this course, the course answered all of them!! So helpful to have all the information, tools and worksheets presented in a useful an logical manner. All very user friendly and understandable. Best of all the course taught me how to look for answers and helped me come up with a useful plan for integrating IPM into my Orchard and Gardening Practices. I am so appreciative for the information presented in this course.

Steph Roth, Ontario, Canada, SilverCreekNursery.ca

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Susan excels at taking the complicated aspects of growing fruit trees, and simplifying it into basic understandable principals that any grower can implement. I am looking forward to starting the new season with some more diligent pest management! 

Michael Giamo, Cedar Grove, New Jersey, US

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I savored every module. During the course I would take pages of notes, the next day off I would go into my orchard and scout problems. Now I know my orchard has every pest, direct and indirect, fungal and bacterial. But now I have a game plan! 

Kathleen Brown van Doom, New Brunswick, Canada

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This course has been extremely helpful and educational. Beautifully done! There is so much information here that it will be great
to come back to again and again to refresh my memory as the years go by in my fruit tree growing journey. 

Mouse Paxton, Ontario, CA

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I found this course to be incredibly useful! It covers a broad range of information related to IPM and provides plenty of tools and
resources to monitor and protect  trees. Everything is presented in a way that is easy to grasp and helps to build confidence that IPM is something any grower can implement.

Build a Relationship with Your Fruit Tree

Develop a partnership with your fruit trees. You will protect them from menacing pests and diseases – and in return they’ll reward you with a generous annual harvest. 

Get to Know Your Instructor

You can reach out to your instructor at any time by posting your question in the discussions linked to each lesson.

Susan Poizner is an urban orchardist and an ISA Certified Arborist. She is the author of four fruit tree care books including Fruit Tree Pruning, Fruit Tree Grafting for Everyone, Growing Urban Orchards and Grow Fruit Trees Fast.

Susan is also a former instructor of Fruit Production at Niagara College in Canada. She is the host of the award-winning Orchard People Podcast and director of the fruit tree care training website at OrchardPeople.com.

Sign up today, risk free!

If, within 30 days of enrolling in the course, you feel that it doesn't meet your expectations, simply contact us and we'll provide a full refund – no questions asked.