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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Sierraville Sweet Gem

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This, as of yet, unidentified, unique variety grows only a branch that has been grafted to an old Bartlett pear, most likely as a pollinator. We haven't researched it's efficacy as a pollinator yet, but we have deemed it a very delicious and unique pear! It's medium grain flesh is juicy, sweet and flavorful with very little astringency in the skin. All the pears have a curious patch of russet around it's calyx. Ripens in late October to early November at 4800'.

This pear was found in the Sierra Valley, Sierra County, by our "Special Agent Double N," as we call her. Sierra Valley, measuring 120,000 acres, is the largest alpine valley in North America. It sits at 4800' while the surrounding mountains are between 6,000'-8,000'. Before the gold rush, this beautiful valley was inhabited by both the Washoe and Maidu tribes. Today it is a ranching and hay producing, lightly populated, beautiful valley.



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