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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Dorris Seedling

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Eaten right from the tree this small/medium, yellow pear is soft, sweet, melty and non astringent. Unlike any other pear on the property and growing outside the fence-line, it is most likely is a seedling. But remember an all time favorite, the Bartlett was originally found as a wild seedling in the forest! As we have just begun propagating this pear, we don't have much info on it yet. However, we'll be watching this little star because it is delicious, vigorous and attractive! This fruit has a short shelf life, so it has to be eaten or processed right away. The little tree has produced moderate crops 3 years in a row, without fireblight damage! Ripens in mid September to early October at 2500'.

The grandmother tree is an old roadside seedling growing near an old pear orchard of Bosc, Autumn Bartlett, Comice and Winter Nelis pears. This property in North San Juan, Nevada County also has early apples, hops, grapes, pineapple quince and Myro plums. North San Juan was a roaring mining camp in the 1800s, a relatively short stagecoach ride to Felix Gillet's nursery in Nevada City. We have discovered numerous, valuable heirlooms in and around N. San Juan and the San Juan ridge, most, apparently, from Gillet's nursery.

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Dorris Seedling

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