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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. 

Stay Tuned…

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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.

Sultana Almond

Sultana Almond

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This was once a well-known Spanish variety was first offered by Gillet in the 1890’s. It has been planted over a wider range of climates than any other almond, but like all other almonds it needs nearly frost-free conditions during bloom in February. Unlike most almonds, this variety bears well on heavy soils as long as there is good drainage. Well flavored, very large (over 1 1/4” wide and long) nut with dark, hard shell. Ripens in September. Needs pollination by Princess or Provence.

The grandmother tree is still growing, barely, at French Corral, Nevada County along the South Yuba River at 1530’. One of the first mining camps along the San Juan Ridge, it had multiple huge hydraulic mines. The name was literal as the town grew around a mule corral built by the first settler, a Frenchman, in 1849. In 1877, it was the terminus of the world's first long-distance telephone line, built to warn the miners that the sheriff was coming to shut down the outlawed hydraulic mines. The telephone was needed to notify the dam tenders on the Middle Fork of the Yuba to turn off the ditch water, making it impossible for the sheriff to bust the miners doing their deeds! The Bridgeport covered bridge, just downstream, is reputed to be the longest single-span wooden covered bridge in the world.

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