This is a crisp, juicy, fine-textured apple with pale greenish-yellow skin and very moderate orange blush. It has a refreshing tart-sweet flavor. Good for eating fresh from the tree, in pies or juice. A winner in ciders. This is a really good tasting apple! Ripens in October to November at 2800' elevation, and keeps for 3-4 months under reasonable storage. The relatively large vigorous tree bears a good crop most years. Good blight, frost and scab resistance. Jenifer had to go back and get the scions from this tree 'cause she said it was so good.

The grandmother tree is a healthy specimen growing on an old farmstead that fed the local miners in the late 1800s. The property contains nearly 100 heirloom apples, pears and walnuts in reasonable health despite no irrigation, fertilization or pest control, near Goodyears Bar, Sierra County above the North Fork of the Yuba River @ 2800’. The brothers Miles and Andrew Goodyear, along with a Dr. Vaughan and a Mr. Morrison, prospected here in the summer of 1849 and found gold enough to settle down at this crossing of the Yuba River. The Goodyear boys built a sturdy cabin and before long the rich deposits attracted a number of other miners to their camp, which was given the name Goodyears Bar in honor of its founders.