Cherry
Sweet cherries for fresh eating and tart cherries for pies, preserves and juice. Standard and semi-dwarf options.
The orchard
Fruit trees, grown in South Jersey soil
We grow fruit and specialty trees in Salem County, New Jersey — for wholesale buyers, for growers planting a block, and for families putting in a few trees they will still be picking from in twenty years.
What we grow
The list
Varieties and quantities change with the season and with what came through the winter. Treat this as what we work with, not a live inventory — ask us what is ready and we will tell you straight.
Apple
Heritage and modern varieties across a range of rootstocks, from backyard semi-dwarf to full-size standards.
Persimmon
American persimmon and Asian types. Tough, beautiful in the fall, and badly underplanted in this part of the country.
Peach
Freestone and clingstone selections chosen for Mid-Atlantic heat, humidity and late frosts.
Pear
European pears for eating and canning, plus Asian pears. Fire-blight tolerance is a priority in what we select.
Plum
European, Japanese and hybrid plums — fresh fruit, drying and preserves.
Apricot & nectarine
Stone fruit for growers willing to work with our spring weather. We are honest about the risk before you buy.
Fig & mulberry
Cold-hardy figs and mulberries — fast to fruit, generous, and forgiving of a beginner.
Pawpaw & natives
Pawpaw and other native fruit trees for edible landscapes, riparian buffers and wildlife plantings.
Quince & oddities
Quince, medlar and the varieties nobody stocks. If you are hunting something specific, ask.
Wildlife plantings
Mast and soft-fruit trees for food plots and habitat work — chosen the way a hunter would choose them.
Looking for something else?
We can often source or grow on a specific variety if you give us the lead time.
Ask usWholesale
Trees by the row, not by the pot
We sell wholesale to nurseries, garden centres, landscapers, orchardists and conservation programs. Because we are small, you deal with the person who grew the trees — you will know the rootstock, the age and the condition before anything is loaded.
Ordering ahead matters. Trees are booked against a season, and the best varieties in the quantities you want are usually spoken for well before dig time.
What we need to quote you
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Species and variety
Or just the use case — we will suggest what performs here.
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Quantity and size
How many, and what calliper or age you are working to.
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Season and destination
When you need them and where they are going — pickup or delivery.
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Anything unusual
Rootstock preferences, pollination partners, certification requirements.
Before you plant
Three things worth getting right
Pollination
Plenty of fruit trees will not set a crop alone. Tell us what is already in the ground nearby and we will make sure what you buy has a partner that flowers at the same time.
Rootstock & spacing
Rootstock decides final size, how soon you get fruit and how much ladder work you sign up for. Get it wrong and a good variety becomes a chore.
Site and drainage
South Jersey soils run from sand to heavy clay within a mile. Standing water in March kills more young trees here than any winter does.
Our own rows
The private family orchard
Alongside the trees we sell, we keep a private orchard for the family. It is not open to the public and nothing from it is sold — it is where we eat, where we learn, and where a variety has to prove itself for a few seasons before we are willing to put our name on it for someone else.
If we recommend a tree to you, there is a good chance one of us has already spent a few autumns picking it.
Why it matters to a buyer
Catalogue copy is written to sell trees. A row you have pruned, sprayed, lost to a late frost and picked anyway tells you something a catalogue never will — which is the advice you actually get from us.
Planning a planting?
Send us the species, the numbers and the season. We will tell you what we can grow, what we would grow instead, and what it costs.