{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Orchard People","title":"How to Prune Old Fruit Trees with Bob Lever","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2457,"description":"Old fruit trees may be hollow but they can still produce fantastic fruit and they provide invaluable habitat to wildlife, sometimes for very unique and specific species.\nIn this radio show learn how to prune old apple trees and how to care for them with UK-based orchard educator Bob Lever.\n\"If you want to make a veteran tree for the future, you need to choose a nice vigorous variety that you know is capable of being long lived and put it on a nice vigorous rootstock. That is how we will get the veteran trees for the next hundred years.\" -Bob Lever\n\"While I can't transplant an old tree to my park right now, what I can do is do something for people in a hundred years time.\" -Susan Poizner\nAdditional resources:\nFor lots more detail about how to prune old apple trees, including a short video version of this podcast, visit this page\nThe full video version is released as of May 2025 - it's worth every minute!\nCheck out our recommended book for this month: Deerproofing Your Yard And Garden by Rhonda Massingham Hart\nABOUT\nOrchard People, formerly known as the Urban Forestry Radio Show from germination in January 2016 until December 2023, has grown over the years, thanks to the collective knowledge and collaboration of the monthly guest experts, organizations, and community from around the world.\n \nThe host of the Orchard People radio show and podcast is Susan Poizner of the fruit tree care education website www.orchardpeople.com.  \n\nHOW TO TUNE IN TO OUR PODCAST\nThe show airs on the last Tuesday of every month on RealityRadio101 at 1:00 PM ET! \nWhile it’s no longer live, you can still watch or listen anytime—and catch the recorded podcast anytime afterward.\n \nVideo Podcast: Watch the recorded episode anytime on our YouTube Podcast Playlist.\nAudio Podcast: Download the podcast and listen on your favorite app after it airs.\n\nNEWSLETTER\nDo you want to learn to grow fruit trees successfully, organically and beyond?\nSign up for OrchardPeople.com's FREE monthly newsletter at...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/IKxj0rySS5BCfohE_DmZ4XroD9GA_yaMAQ7SVmCB5do/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8wZTk5/MjMxMTRmMmVhMzU3/NDQ2MzBhNGJiZWQz/NjJlZC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}