Learn how to grow your own antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 21st annual Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. Participants take home three tree grafts of heirloom nursery ...

Learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum's 34th Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, March 13. For $35, participants make three grafts of heirloom ...

Grafting apple trees workshop set for Farmington March 28 Participants will use specialized tools to graft young trees to take home.

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans.

Dave Christic, a volunteer from the California Rare Fruit Growers, helps seniors Michael Ward, left, and Emilie McDonald with their apple tree grafting. Photo by Joe Johnston 02-25-10 Tribune ...

Participants can learn how to grow antique apple trees at Garfield Farm Museum’s 34th Antique Apple Tree Grafting Seminar at 1:30 p.m. March 13 at the farm in Kane County.

We’ve top-work grafted more than 200 trees over the years, so that’s over 2,600 grafts,” Liberty Apple Orchard Steve Miller says.

That scar is an artifact of a process called grafting, or fusing two separate pieces of wood into a new tree. From citrus to peaches, almost all fruit trees are grafted, and so are pecans.