The Paw Paw
Master Class
Everything you need to know to propagate, plant, process, and manage this incredible fruit in one online course.
The Perks of Paw Paws
Not Commercially Available
A rare and valuable treat, Paw Paws can only be found in the wild or in your back yard!
Prolific Yields
With the right plan and management you can have buckets of fruit within a few years.!
Deer Resistant
It wields natural aromatic defenses that deer can't stand making paw paw one of the few edible plants that don't require fencing for protection!
Did we mention they're delicious?
Paw paws can be used in place of bananas in any recipe
for a more local, nutritious, and delicious alternative!
Ice Cream
Bread
Fruit Leather
Smoothies
Beer
Jam
The Powerful and Prolific Paw Paw:
Asimina triloba is an ancient fruit that originally evolved for a much warmer climate. Tagging along in the stomachs of ancient megafauna it found its way to North America and is now the sole member of the custard apple family to reach this far North!
If you’ve never tased a fresh Paw Paw, it’s safe to say you’ve experienced nothing like it. Full of vitamin C, magnesium, iron, copper, and manganese, these powerful and delectable fruits have the texture of pudding and an aroma ranging from mango and banana to avocado, peach, cherimoya, and guanabana.
That’s right! Asimina triloba Is a versatile and hardy plant that thrives in cooler conditions, despite having very tropical aspects. All the while it is being grown in similar climates like Central and Eastern Europe and parts of temperate Asia.
Not all wild Paw Paw patches are productive, but with the right management and pollination strategy, you will be collecting bucket loads of fruit with minimal labor year after year!
Learn from a Permaculture Expert:
Nearly 20 Years Experience Cultivating and Managing Paw Paws
Working his family's 3rd generation land, Doug has learned by doing; propagating and managing hundreds of Paw Paw trees with success over the course of nearly two decades.
International Permaculture Teacher
With +10 Years of Applied Teaching Experience, Doug has extensive experience and knowledge surrounding landscape planning and food production systems. He has now lead 30+ Permaculture Design Certifications as lead teacher.
University Professor
Trained as both a Permaculture Designer and Fish and Wildlife Manager, Doug is currently a Professor at University of Cincinnati (Former Professor at Maharishi College of Management)
The Ultimate Paw Paw Training
8 Sections Totaling Nearly 4 Hours of Video
- 8 Sections
- 3.5 Hours of Video
- Field Demonstrations
- Interactive Forum
- FREE Paw Paw Seeds (More on that below)
In this course you will learn:
Paw Paw Propagation and Planting
How do you turn a hand full of seeds into a forest? Doug will start you with the foundations, so that you understand not just what to do for success but why. Become fully equipped with expert knowledge and have the best shot at paw paw propagation through systematic seed saving and planting success. Learning to work with what genetics you have will allow you to become a plant breeder, an age old tradition and noble cause.
Planning, Pollination, and Management
What makes the difference between a small natural Paw Paw grove and a hyper prolific permaculture orchard? Proper planning and management. Once the trees are in the ground or you found a wild patch, the journey has just started. Learn techniques to leapfrog your tree’s growth cycle while improving soil fertility and fruit production.
Picking and Processing for Food and Storage
Although quite seasonal, there are immediate usage recipes and storage capabilities. By getting bananas out of our diets for months on end in the temperate climates, we will reduce our carbon footprint as they come great distances to those who live in climates where paw paw is grown easily.
Supportive Designs for Various Contexts
Advanced course content that guides you through longer term management of a number of different scenarios.
Advanced Strategy, Tools, Recipes, and More!
This holistic offering of eight different sections overall gives you the full run through of paw paws. This plant is in high demand and its fruits. You can be the next to create a new grafted variety, the next best recipe, or lead people on tours through your paw paw paradise just as Doug Crouch does.
A Message from Doug Crouch:
After 10 years of providing high quality Permaculture info to our growing community of online learners, we bring you this paw paw online intensive. After teaching about Paw Paw for years around the world, we bring you this high quality production to invest in your own education and a Permaculture media company, TreeYo EDU. Keep your passion alive for growing and ours for teaching through a diverse portfolio of online education.
Want to be part of the local foods revolution? Have a wild patch that won’t fruit? Want to help develop the next greatest Paw Paw cultivar? Have wooded areas or edges that could use some biodiversity?
If yes, please sign up for this holistic courses that runs you through the gambit of growing, harvesting, processing, and management and more!