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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Fig Seckle

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This sweet, unusual pear resembles a fig in shape. The only identity we could find was in an old watercolor from the USDA from the 1800's that described it as a cross between a Bartlett and a Seckle. The partly russetted skin is blushed with a red-orange that spreads out from the bottom. The flesh melts in your mouth with delicate, subtle, juicy sweetness. This pear is buttery, creamy, juicy and sweet. Good for dessert or perry. The tree is very productive and moderately resistant to fireblight. Produced large crops in the 2014 and 2015 drought years. Ripens in September at 2200'.

The vigorous, healthy mother tree grows in North San Juan on an old homestead in town. North San Juan, at 2200' on the San Juan Ridge of Nevada County, was one of the most productive and busiest areas of the Northern mines. Once known as the "garden belt" of the Sierra foothills, it was a large agricultural area during the mining days. We continue to find great heirloom relics as we search the old ranches and homesteads of the Ridge.

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