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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  are available for pre-sale through their website for the 2024/25 Bare Root Season 

Felix Gillet Collector Trees

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Below: the SOLD OUT Varieties listed are for informational purposes only. These are the trees and plants that we have re-discovered and sold over the years. They are the result of our passionate searches throughout Northern California, the Sierra Nevada and Western States to re-discover the historic, agricultural, living library still in existence. These trees and plants, left over from the 1800’s and early 1900’s Gold Rush era, were discovered on historic mining camps, ranches, and  homesteads. Most of these trees have become climate resilient with no human attention for the last 100 plus years. They give the best fruit and nuts in conditions that most fruit and nut trees cannot endure with large annual temperature variations.

These  grandmother trees have learned to thrive under the most harsh conditions, and with uncertain weather patterns.  It is our goal to make them available to growers, gardeners and communities throughout the West Coast.

We have personally taken cuttings directly from the 100+ year old grandmother trees that still cling to life in some, often deserted, historic orchards. The Felix Gillet Institute trees are very rare, 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. 

 You can become a Mother Orchard Supporter and help us in our efforts to discover more rare, historical trees and care for our collection of over 250 trees, by clicking on the Mother Orchard link above.

Ten of these varieties are available through Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply this year 2024/25. 

Thank you for all your Support!

Joseph's Coat

Joseph's Coat

Store/Plums and Prunes
SKU 00191
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The most beautiful plum we have found. When ripe it's skin blends yellow, green, red, orange and purple. The firm yellow and melting flesh is juicy with a mild sweetness and flavor. The unidentified mother tree grows in the shade of a large chestnut. Ripens in August at 2700' elevation.

The mother tree is growing near Nevada City at 2700.' It is a spindly tree which has been growing in the shade of a large chestnut and filbert for many decades. Nevada City has many old fruit and nut trees still thriving from the Gold Rush. Nevada City was the home of Felix Gillet from 1858 to 1908. He called his nursery the Barren Hill Nursery, for the clear cut hill where he established his business. The nursery continued to operate under the management of the Parsons family, who changed the name to The Felix Gillet Nursery, and ran it until 1967, when it was the oldest operating nursery in the state of California.


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