Towards A Climate Resilient Food Economy:
We have passionately searched the Sierra Nevada and Western States to re-discover the living library of plants still scattered across Northern California, those trees and plants left over from the 1800’s and early 1900’s Gold Rush era. These are the grandmother trees that have become climate resilient with no human attention for the last 100 years. They give the best fruit and nuts in conditions that most fruit and nut trees can not endure with large annual temperature variations. These grandmother trees have learned to thrive under the most harsh conditions. We want to make them available to growers, gardeners and communities throughout the West Coast.
We have personally found these trees and have taken cuttings directly from the 100+ year old grandmother trees that still cling to life in ghostly, historic orchards. We offer very rare and exclusive plants – some may have only just been rediscovered.
95% of plants available during the 1800s are no longer available today. We are saving what is left before they die.
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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 will be available through Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden for the 2024/25 Bareroot Season.
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The SOLD OUT Varieties listed below are for informational purposes only. These are many of the plants we have found and sold over the years. While some of these varieties will be available this Autumn, many will not.
Hope is on the Horizon.
We will have historic fruit and nut trees available for preorder
November 1, 2024.
Thank you for all your Support!
Orders only accepted via the website.
This American heirloom apple, a Yellow Bellflower, was widely planted during the Gold Rush era. Felix offered them from 1890 on. Large to very large fruit, bright pale, yellow skin, whitish, firm succulent flesh that is tart at picking and mellows with storage. Highly esteemed for fresh eating when picked, and for its excellent dessert qualities, especially after held in storage for a few months. Great baked! Makes excellent sauce, juice and hard cider due to its natural acidity. Care at harvest, as it bruises with rough handling. Ripens in October and November. Improved yield with pollinator nearby. A favorite. The mother tree is a very consistent producer despite being in a geographically cold pocket. The fruit is remarkably yummy. At the foot of the mother tree is a Buddha statue which is why we call it Buddha's Belleflower. The grandmother tree grows on an original mining homestead along the north fork of the Yuba River in the old mining town of Goodyears Bar, Sierra County @ 2700’ elevation. The brothers Miles and Andrew Goodyear, along with a Dr. Vaughan and a Mr. Morrison, prospected here in the summer of 1849 and found gold enough for their liking to settle down at this crossing of the Yuba River. The Goodyear boys built a sturdy cabin and before long the rich deposits attracted a number of miners to their camp, which was given the name Goodyears Bar in honor of its founders. Goodyears Creek was incredibly rich along its entire length, having been literally fed gold for thousands of years as it chewed through gold-bearing ledges and the beds of ancient rivers and streams. At one spot near the upper end of the bar, a group of men cleaned up $2,000 in gold from a single wheelbarrow of dirt.Buddha's Bellflower Apple
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