Fruitiers et Compagnie

Create and care for your agroecological orchard.

Training, pruning, grafting and advice for individuals, farmers and local authorities.

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Fruit growing: training, assessment & technical work

I support professionals, local authorities and individuals at every stage: building skills (professional training and courses open to all), orchard assessment and carrying out your technical work (pruning, top-working, follow-up).

Hubert Didier talking with two trainees in a young orchard

Fruit-growing courses

Pruning, grafting, orchard creation, summer care. Theory and practice in a host orchard.

Old apple tree after restoration pruning

Pruning and restoration

Pruning of productive orchards, restoration of old trees with a multi-year revitalisation programme.

Young apple trees staked on individual posts

Creating an orchard

Choice of species and varieties, planting plan, staking and protection of young trees, from project to planting.

Hands fitting a scion onto a rootstock

Grafting at your place

Preserve an old variety, replace one that does not suit you: grafting and top-working at your place.

Upcoming courses

One day in the field, 9:30 to 16:30. €70 per person.

  1. Taille hivernale d’un verger diversifié

    Ferme de Champier, 42110 Salvizinet · 9:30 – 16:30

  2. Taille hivernale d’un verger diversifié

    Ferme de Champier, 42110 Salvizinet · 9:30 – 16:30

  3. Taille hivernale d’un verger diversifié

    Ferme de Champier, 42110 Salvizinet · 9:30 – 16:30

  4. Approfondissement journée pratique taille hivernale d’un verger diversifié

    Ferme de Champier, 42110 Salvizinet · 9:30 – 16:30

  5. Taille de rénovation de vieux arbres fruitiers

    Le Labo des ZakYom, 33660 Saint-Antoine-sur-l’Isle · 9:30 – 16:30

Full programme

Grafting supplies

Professional material in small quantities, for the garden.

All supplies
Hubert Didier

Hubert Didier

Horticultural production technician, ISTOM engineering graduate

Hubert Didier draws on five years of experience at the Conservatoire végétal régional d’Aquitaine (19 hectares of fruit collections managed, more than 40 orchards supported).

Since 2021, Fruitiers et Compagnie has put this dual expertise to work for your trees: assessment and health monitoring, technical work (pruning, top-working), and tailor-made training for professionals, local authorities and individuals.

Hubert also works with the Potager du Roi in Versailles, the CNFPT, CFPPA centres, the ADDEAR and the Domaine agroécologique de Barolle.

Experience
15 years
Collections managed
19 ha
Orchards supported
40+
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A project, a question?

For a pruning, planting or training quote.

h.didier@fruitiersetcompagnie.com|06 52 66 38 48

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