About Us
We’ve been a team for 5 years, sharing a love of growing fruit, taking care of the land, and enjoying the million wonderful living things the world has to offer.
What started as a mentorship turned into a desire to create something together for the community in a way that honored our personal missions of keeping heirloom varieties alive and thriving.
Our Mission
There’s something incredibly special about having a relationship with trees; in planting them and watching them grow. Each year noting when the buds first start unfurling, when the first flowers appear, and picking bugs off the leaves by hand when you have to. Getting to try the first piece of fruit and then tasting the change every year when it rains too little or too much or the fall chill comes early or late.
That special relationship is something we want to share with you.
Why We Do This
Every one of these varieties is one we know and love and think you will love just as much as we do. Every apple, quince, pear, you-name-it is one we’ve been delighted by and which has brought joy to us. Simply, this fruit is too incredible not to share.
In studying ecology and biology you learn quickly that the safest way to ensure that your species will last is to be diverse; that having many individuals in many places can shield you from a sudden wipe out, and that your adaptability matters far more than your competitiveness.
Some of these varieties have been around for hundreds of years, with no real threat to them falling out of favor. But others have very nearly been lost, just a single old tree saving the variety from extinction. These are extra special to us; if they had been lost they would never exist again and each has a special history and special flavors that the world would be lesser without.
Many of those lone trees existed on old homesteads or abandoned family orchards long after commercial orchards had given up on them. One of the trees you take home might someday be the last of its kind, the one that sparks a rediscovery and saves the variety.