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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Early Sweet Tart Apple

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This is one of the earliest apples we have found, ripening in mid July at 3200' in half shade. This delicious little apple has thin, candycane-red skin and snow white flesh with a Sweet Tart, candy-like flavor. Like some early apples, it can be a bit dry and get mealy quick if you don't pick them when they are perfect. On some apples, the calyx protrudes externally about 1/8 inch. Cute and candy like. Did we say that they remind us of candy?

The grandmother tree is located near Malakoff Diggins State Park. The Diggins now resembles a mini grand canyon. Large, cast-iron, water cannons, fed by hundreds of miles of hand dug ditches, were used to blast away large sections of mountain side. This technique exposed the gold-laden, quartz veins so the miners could more easily access the gold. Unfortunately, the excessive, man-made erosion caused massive amounts of debris to wash downstream and led to wide spread flooding, killing people and damaging property in Marysville in 1875. As a result, in 1884 the world's first environmental law, the Sawyer Decision, eventually ended hydraulic mining.


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