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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Reinette Franche Apple

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Gillet introduced this 1500s Normandy, France variety in 1884. The fruit is a medium-large crimson and golden apple with radiating rays of russet from the cavity. Consistent Bearer of good crop. 2018 had a 350 lb harvest from the original grandmother tree! One of our favorite fresh eaters. Flesh is yellowish white, firm and crunchy, spicy flavored with a wonderful aroma - a marvelous mixture of nuts and orange. An excellent apple for dessert or cooking. Ripens in October at 2700', and keeps well into spring. The tree bears biennially but productively. Resistant to fireblight and scab.

The grandmother tree is a huge, very healthy specimen growing on an old mining claim in Goodyears Bar, Sierra County, CA. near the North Fork of the Yuba River @ 2700’. Now a sleepy, lightly populated hamlet, Goodyears was a rockin' placer and hard rock mining camp at the height of the Gold Rush, occupied by thousands of hard working, hard partying miners. Fortunately some of them planted fruit and nut trees, which have survived to this day! The owner of this tree, octogenarian Cy Rollins, is a walking/running encyclopedia of Sierra and Yuba County history, which we will share as time allows.


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