“We love your fruit. Would it be possible to purchase a tree from you for our home garden?”
We greatly appreciate the positive feedback on our variety choices, as we have invested a lot of time and money to develop varieties that we hope you will enjoy as much as we do.
However, we are not a nursery, so we do not sell trees, seedlings, or cuttings. Our orchards are fully grown trees that we harvest for fruit. Also, as we have invested in our proprietary breeding program, certain varieties - such as our Black Velvet Apricots and over half of our pluots - are not available for purchase from any location.
We would encourage those of you who would like to pursue home gardening efforts, and the best place for you to purchase trees would be at your local nursery. Several of them may even carry pluot trees with different varieties grafted onto each limb so that your tree can cross-pollinate itself, and will provide you with several different varieties throughout the summer months. We cannot guarantee this, nor do we offer this service ourselves.
“Can we purchase the fruit direct from you? Or do you sell gift baskets?”
We do not sell fruit to individuals online. We are in partnership with a company called Red Cooper, who sells some of our product in smaller quantities by mail.
You can visit their website at www.RedCooper.com and look in their “Fresh Harvest” category. The California grown stone fruit is from our company, as well as the Apple Pears.
“On your labeling, what does “USA/E-U” stand for?”
The USA/E-U on our stickers and packaging means that our product is grown in the United States. The E-U is the French (Etats-Unis) and Spanish (Estados Unidos) translation.
“When are Apple Pears ripe to eat? Are they supposed to be firm or soft?”
Apple Pears are harvested like an apple. They are firm and crunchy, and picked ripe on the tree. Keep them in the crisper in your refrigerator after buying them to prolong their shelf-life.
“Are Apple Pears and Asian Pears the same thing?”
Yes. Technically Apple Pears are in the pear family, they just exhibit many apple qualities. They are not a hybrid variety as apples and pears are not genetically compatible for cross-pollination. Unlike most pears, Apple Pears do not soften when ripe. In other countries, Apple Pears are known as Asian Pears, Nashi Pears, Sand Pears, Korean Pears, Japanese Pears, Chinese Pears, or Taiwan pears.
