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 

Felix Gillet Collector Trees

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Camptonville Candy

SKU 00102
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Deep red fruit, turning medium purple when very ripe. One of our largest sized fruits, with firm red, very meaty and juicy flesh. Sweet, juicy and yummy, a child’s favorite. Great fresh, canned or dried. Vigorous, productive tree yields abundant crops in late June or early July at 2800'.

The grandmother tree is a very healthy 110+ year young specimen growing at 2800’ in a mixed Gillet homestead orchard in Camptonville,Yuba County, a vibrant mining town of the mid 1800s, still populated with many Gillet trees. Once they struck gold in Camptonville, in 1850, it became known as Gold Ridge and quickly became a busting gold rush town. Known for it's massive hydraulic mining operation, It was also an important stop on Henness Pass Road which travelled over the Sierra Nevada Mountains. It was a number of years later it was renamed for the well respected town Blacksmith, Robert Campton.

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