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Towards A Climate Resilient Food Economy:

We have passionately searched the Sierra Nevada and Western States to re-discover the living library of plants still scattered across Northern California, those trees and plants left over from the 1800’s and early 1900’s Gold Rush era.   These are the grandmother trees that have become climate resilient with no human attention for the last 100 years. They give the best fruit and nuts in conditions that most fruit and nut trees can not endure with large annual temperature variations. These  grandmother trees have learned to thrive under the most harsh conditions. 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. We offer very rare and 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. 

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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 through Peaceful Valley Farm and Garden for the 2024/25 Bareroot Season. 

Stay Tuned…

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The SOLD OUT Varieties listed below are for informational purposes only. These are many of the plants we have found and sold over the years. While some of these varieties will be available this Autumn, many will not. 

Hope is on the Horizon.

We will have historic fruit and nut trees available for preorder

November 1, 2024.

Thank you for all your Support!

Orders only accepted via the website.

Vandevere

Vandevere

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An American heirloom from the early 1800s Delaware and offered by Gillet beginning in 1884. Fruit is medium size or larger with yellow skin overlaid with pale, red stripes, streaked and stained with orange-red blush. The very firm, tender, yellow flesh is crisp, juicy and sweet, a fine lively flavor. Ripens in October or later at 3600'. Used fresh, cooking, dried or for baking. Very good for juice and hard cider. A good keeper, it becomes greasy feeling in storage and loses some crispness, but remains an excellent cooking apple until March or April.

The mother tree is growing on an old homestead in the mining town of Washington, Nevada County, CA on the shores of the South Fork of the Yuba River @3600’. It was settled during the Gold Rush in 1849 and produced a large amount of placer gold. Hard rock mines were established soon afterword and were very productive. Washington is the only settlement in the vicinity to have survived to this day. There remains much evidence of placer gold mining, hydraulic mining, and hard rock mining. During the mining period there were a large number of Chinese living there. We have only recently began to explore this treasure trove of history, and will have more introductions from this ‘hood in coming years.

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