An excellent dessert apple of medium size and squat shape, the Galloway Pippin is a crisp and sprightly fall apple with delicate berry flavors. The sunny side of the greenish yellow fruit gets a beautiful orange red blush. Ripens in mid to late September at 2700' elevation. Great fresh, cider and dried. A fairly good keeper. Productive tree is about 15 feet tall, with plenty of new growth each year.

The grandmother tree is in a large, multi variety apple orchard, planted in the 1800s near Goodyears Bar, Sierra County near the North Fork of the Yuba River @ 2700’. Goodyears Bar was a significant mining camp in the late 1800s, with plenty of gold in the river and the hills. Lots of mines were located nearby, and farmers raised fruit to feed the hungry miners. An amazing mountain elder, octogenarian Cy Rollins, caretakes a number of heirloom trees, including this Galloway, while maintaining his museum-like property. He is full of history and story, and we hope to capture a few of them soon.