Thanks to Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply (originally started by our founder Amigo Bob Cantisano), a collection of some of our favorite species and varieties  are available for pre-sale through their website for the 2024/25 Bare Root Season 

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Bonneamour - Bon Cretien (Bartlett family)

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Part of the world famous Bartlett family, the Bonneamour has very sweet and tender flesh. The fruit is large with a slight blush. Excellent fresh, dried or canned. As are most pears, it is picked green and enjoyed as it ripens to a soft yellow. Tree bears early, heavily and regularly. Tolerates hot summers. Harvest mid-season (August-September in Nevada County). Keeps in cold storage for 4-6 weeks. Self-fruitful; does not require a pollenizer.

This well known variety is propagated from a small orchard near Grass Valley, Nevada County @ 2300’. This is the edge of a once famous pear district at the turn of the 20th Century that shipped pears all over the US. But pear blight and pear decline, two major diseases, wiped out nearly all the pears in the 50’s and 60’s. These wise grandmother trees grow in a natural aquafer and appear to be resistant to both diseases. They have never been sprayed, are not watered or fertilized, except by Nature, yet show remarkable growth and strong disease resistance.


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