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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 will be available for pre-sale through their website beginning the 2024/25 Bareroot Season 

November 11, 2024 

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The SOLD OUT Varieties listed below are for informational purposes only, ones we have sold over the years, and 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 and 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, we want to make them available to growers, gardeners and communities throughout the West Coast.

We have personally found these trees and have taken cuttings directly from the 100+ year old grandmother trees that still cling to life in ghostly, 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.

Ten of these varieties will be available through Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden Supply this year in our 2024/25 Collection. 

Thank you for all your Support!

Lake City Red Flesh

Lake City Red Flesh

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After discovery, we waited 7 years for this very old peach tree to bear fruit, and we are so glad we did! These unique freestone, blood peaches have a juicy, sweet and flavorful fruit, with a flesh, texture and color similar to that of a red plum. An unusual delight! In our observation, it appears to be resistant or immune to peach leaf curl, a destructive fungus which kills many peach and nectarine trees. Ripens in late August at 3300'.

This old, gnarled, grandmother peach tree has survived in drought conditions for many decades, but has been dying back each year and only has a few living branches left. She lives in Lake City which borders Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park. Lake City was founded as a mining town in 1853 and quickly grew into a bustling community. Hydraulic mining techniques used large-volume, high-pressure, cast-iron, water cannons to wash huge portions of the mountainsides down river. This affected farmers and ranchers in the valley, all the way to the San Francisco Bay. In 1884, lead to the world's first environmental law. The Sawyer decision banned the destructive practices at Malakoff Diggins and all other hydraulic mines in California, but loopholes in the law took decades to finally enforce until the last mine was closed in 1906. You can still see the destruction left behind in these mini, man-made "Grand Canyons."

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