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."