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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Winter Nelis

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A small to medium delicious pear with light brown russeting over a light green skin that becomes more golden when ripe. Its shape is fairly rounded with almost no neck. Flesh is creamy, juicy, aromatic and sweet, with good cooking and canning qualities - very good in cider blends. This is a winter ripening pear, that provided fresh food when everything else was done. Ripe in November and December at 2300', and the quality remains good through January or February. Good pollenizer for Bartlett and many other pears. May also be used as a rootstock. Fireblight resistant variety!

The grandmother tree is a wild, non-irrigated, heavy-bearing, smaller tree growing on a homestead, planted in the late 1800s near Brownsville, Yuba County @ 2300’. Brownsville was a thriving logging town with numerous mills in the 1800s, supplying the mines and towns of the Sierra and Sacramento Valley with wood and wood products. Fortunately farmers planted these heirloom trees for feeding the loggers and miners.

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