Bitter, disease resistant cider apple. A highly favored bitter cider apple. These are flavorful and disease resistant. The trees are slow growing and biannual bearing. The produce very few pieces of scion wood each year.

Categories: cider apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D

Devonshire Crimson Queen is extremely rare in the U.S. We adore these apples as they are delicious, early, disease resistant and seem unmolested by insects. These apples start out fairly sharp and get sweeter as they sit. Late in their season, or after a month or storage, they have a distinct berry flavor. On the tree they will look as though they range in color from solid red to totally green. Their season stretches over several weeks and so we start out picking only the solid red and come back every few days to pick just those. Only in the last pickings should those less red apples be harvested. When these are deepest red, especially in cooler seasons when they can ripen slowly, they will have lovely dark pink blush inside the flesh that starts near the skin and can continue all the way to the core. Their strawberry flavors get stronger later in their season and after storage. These apples have been fabulous every single season regardless of new insects, hail, heat waves, massive rain and any other weather anomaly we’ve experienced.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, Red Flesh

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period early, Pollination Group B

An 18th century Russian apple. These early apples are wonderful for sauce and are recommended for drying. These are quite productive trees but are fairly disease prone. They have improved under organic care but they should be watched closely for fire blight. They tend to have less scab than some but they also will drop quickly if there is excess heat. They add nice aromatics to a cider.

Categories: cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Heavy producer, Harvest period early, Pollination Group B

Information on Dummelow Seedling is fairly scarce and contradictory. We are now fairly certain these are not the traditional English Dummelow. That said, they are in two places in our orchard, clearly labeled and planted at two different times and the apples are the same. They were planted by an English orchardist. The oddest shaped apple we grow with a flavor that is completely unique. It’s an apple, sort of, it seems to have some pear genes in it. We enjoy its floral qualities. These have blooms with no petals and we’ve not seen bees pollinating them but they do set reasonable amounts of fruit. A very fun apple for those who go for a wildly diverse orchard.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Harvest period early

These are intensely flavored late season apples. They are entirely russet covered. The trees are disease and pest resistant and are biannual bearers. The apples taste like an amazing, complex, cider and are quite tart. They also ferment into the most complex, single varietal cider we’ve made. It’s a classic English apple from the Victorian era. As a dessert apple they are quite tart, but I would eat them with a caramel sauce or served with a soft cheese and nuts to balance and mellow the strong flavor.

Categories: cider apple, dessert apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group C

A sweet apple with juicy white flesh and a crisp texture. We find these to be delicious to eat and nice for the base of a hard cider but their susceptibility to fungal diseases makes them a challenge in our warm wet springs. They are, however, resistant to blight and rust. Early to bloom but late to ripen.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group C

This is a modern apple that has many wonderful qualities. Great disease resistance, good flavor and firmness. Known for their ability to keep for months in a modern fridge. Late October ripening. Our trees of these are fairly young but we’ve found them to be fast growers that produced quite young. Our top grafted trees produced more than 50lbs each on their third year.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D

This variety is from 1920s Germany and we’re big fans of these apples. They’re crunchy, tasty, aromatic and almost always as near to perfection as can be expected in an organic orchard. Child of the Duchess of Oldenburg. These have resistance to anthracnose. The tree is biannual but highly productive and nearly free of both scab and insect damage. It is a small, fairly late season, apple.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period late, Pollination Group B

This is famous as Thomas Jefferson’s favorite apple. It’s from New York and the early 1800s. This rich, firm fleshed apple is full flavored. Its spicy taste makes it one of our favorites, it’s susceptibility to every disease apple trees can get makes it an ongoing challenge. Dark almost orange/red apples that aren’t perfect but are delicious. These will keep and are famous for being best in late December. 

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D

A modern cross of the legendary Cox Orange Pippin with lots of the orange pippin flavor and better disease resistance. They are biennial bearers for us. We also don’t find them to be completely disease resistant though better than the Cox. From England and the 1970s.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Pollination Group C, Heavy producer, Harvest period mid, Cold hardy

Late maturing, sweet, crisp, dense-fleshed apples. From Japan and introduced into the U.S, market in the 1980s. Yataka mutation ripens a month earlier. Scab prone and needing careful thinning and pruning. Needs a long, warm ripening period.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group D

Sweet, juicy apples that are from New Zealand in 1934. They are a cross between Red Delicious and Kidd’s Orange Red apples.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Heavy producer, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C

So red it bleeds like a beet. This is a favorite of cider makes. It’s highly scab prone but when that is controlled it produces loads of large, tart, dark red-fleshed apples. In our top-grafted experiments this one grafts easily and trees grow and produce quickly. The blooming trees are stunning. Always this red, always large, when scab is reasonably controlled and always lovely dark pink blooms. Scion tend to be large. If you’re growing for impressive red juice for cider these are the ticket they are intense and will tint any blend.

Categories: cider apple, Red Flesh

Tags: Harvest period mid

An early, mild and slightly ginger flavored apple. These are noted not just for their flavor but the fact that they don’t brown. Related to the Golden Delicious and out of Virginia in the 1960s. In cooler summers, when they hang better, these are particularly delicious. Tip bearers.

Categories: dessert apples

Tags: Cold hardy, Harvest period early, Pollination Group A

These highly disease resistant, very productive, late season apples are favorites on the farm. Our trees have been vigorous growers that produce piles of nearly perfect apples with little attention from us. Yellow, tart, late season and good storing fruit. We hadn’t offered these before because we were keeping all the scion for our own grafting.

Categories: cider apples, dessert apples, baking/saucing apples

Tags: disease-resistant, heavy producer, heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group E

We take Golden Delicious scion only from the oldest trees on our orchard. These large, standard, over 60 year old trees produce apples that are noticeably richer in flavor than the younger, under 20 year old, trees. It’s unclear if this is the result of genetic differences that come from years of selection or if the large, old trees access nutrients not available to the others. A dead, ripe Golden Delicious is an amazing apple and as commercial ones are picked much too early for any real flavor it’s only experienced by those with these historic trees.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Cold hardy, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D

Everyone knows this large green tart apple. Very late season. To taste it like only those who grow it can, leave it on the tree until December, even January. It sweetens up but maintains the legendary acidity and tastes like tart apple candy. This is available in bulk quantities.

Categories: baking/saucing apple

Tags: heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late, Pollination Group C

We have both the Red Gravenstein and the traditional pictured here. One of the best early ripening cooking apples. Our farm has many Gravenstein trees and has grown these apples for over 40 years. We take scion only from either the small group of very red Gravenstein where all the apples are solid red, slightly smaller and ripen a little later or the section of trees that are consistently traditional Gravenstein in size, coloration and ripening. They all have the amazing Gravenstein flavor. We have bulk quantities of this variety.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, cider apple, dessert apple

Tags: Heat/low-chill tolerant, Heavy producer, Harvest period early, Pollination Group A

Discovered in 1790 and so loved that there is a monument to the first Golden Grimes tree at its home in West Virginia. A delicious apple that also was a favorite among cider makers and moonshiners. Still fairly common in the south. Green apples that a turn a lovely yellow. They are a mixed bag in terms of disease resistance.

Categories: cider apple, dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Southern US Roots, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D

The original strain of the worlds most widely grown apple. These were “improved” to create the famous Red Delicious but we, and many others, believe that the original is a better tasting apple. It’s striped instead of solid red but it has that distinctive delicious shape. From 1870s Iowa. This is another one of the apples that handled the blazing heat of 2021, temps reaching 115, well without any protection.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Pollination Group D, Disease-resistant, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period mid

Our favorite very late season apples because these produce lovely, tasty apples even when weather wrecks most of the others. It’s never too hot for them, it never rains enough to split them. From the hills above Santa Cruz in the 1890s. These are on the Slow Food Ark of Taste. These have good disease resistance, handle heat and rain. They are highly productive every year. We’ve had good success grafting them.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: disease-resistant, heavy producer, harvest period late, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Pollination Group F

An apple from 1918. One of our favorites and another “trifecta apple” great for eating, baking and cider. Fans of the Holstein recommend keeping them cool until the color changes from green to yellow. These apples have a distinctive russet on the bottom that often cracks, that cracking is their only “flaw”.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C

Honeycrisp: I refer to these as an heirloom of the future. It’s not only because they’re tasty it’s because they are fairly easy to grow in organic systems. Disease resistance is good. They can be prone to bitter pit due to calcium deficiencies, so supplementing with calcium in the orchard is helpful. Developed in Minnesota in 1960 it would already meet the 50 year mark some count for calling a plant an “heirloom”. We have bulk quantities of these.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Heavy producer, Pollination Group C

These are lovely, late season apples with very good disease resistance. The fruit is juicy, sweet and has lots of flavor without being too intense. These came from Hubbardston, Massachusetts in the 1800s.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D

A cross between Jonathan and Golden Delicious. Bred in New York in 1953. This is one of the more common commodity apples. Large, sweet, fairly mild fruit that are mid to late season ripening. They are fairly scab prone and so can be challenging for organic growers and wet climates.

Categories: dessert apple, cider apple

Tags: Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Harvest period late, Pollination Group D

This variety was one of the first ones to be grown in Oregon. These are flavorful, dark red apples with a nice balance of sweetness and acidity. Fairly productive and with some disease resistance, especially in this area. There is a reason these have been grown in our region for many years.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C

The most well-known creation of Piet de Sonnaville and not that old, released in 1949. It’s a child of the Cox Orange Pippin but with a more aromatic nature. One of our absolute favorites. We love almost everything about this apple from its overall decent disease resistance to its productivity and its amazing flavor. We’ve had good results grafting this.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple, cider apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period mid, Pollination Group D

King: this old New Jersey variety from the 1800s is on many Willamette Valley Homesteads. When you see an old apple tree that’s over 40ft tall it’s often one of these. These have a hint of spice that makes them taste like apple pie. Their natural waxy skin helps them keep. They are somewhat scab prone.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Harvest period mid, Pollination Group C

These are very popular hard cider apples. They’re reasonably disease resistant and fairly vigorous growers. They are fairly biannual bearers. We have bulk quantities of these scion.

Categories: cider apple

Tags: Cold hardy, Pollination Group E, Harvest period late

These late season apples are often covered in what is referred to as warty russet. These are aromatic, earthy, sweet apples and the most delicious parts are under the warts. It's British from 1819 and is reasonably disease resistant.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Cold hardy, Harvest period late

We have hesitated to sell scion from these tiniest of apples because the trees tend to be very disease prone. We understand however, that there are few sources for this variety. So they come with the caution that we cannot assure growers it does not carry disease even when we choose nice looking wood from the healthiest trees. You should isolate these trees from your others until you can be certain of their health.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, cider apple, dessert apple

Tags: Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period late

This is an apple released from New York in 1978. It’s disease and pest resistance is amazing. I’ve known trees that were never sprayed, hardly pruned and generally ignored that nonetheless produce beautiful apples every year. These apples are wonderful fresh eating and ripen in September. This is the best apple for novice apple growers.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Heat/low-chill tolerant, Pollination Group B, Harvest period mid

The earliest apples in our orchard. They usually ripen by the second week in July. These large green apples are very different than most others. They are light and airy, very tart without the depth that rounds out later tart apples. They make a fast sauce and are one of the best apples for fritters or other quick cooking recipes.

Categories: baking/saucing apple

Tags: Cold hardy, Pollination Group C, Harvest period early

A lovely, early baking apple. Lots of disease resistance and large apples even in less than perfect conditions. The flavor is tart but yet somewhat delicate.  The trees are slow growing and so we always have just a handful of scion.

Categories: baking/saucing apple

Tags: Cold hardy, Disease-resistant, Heavy producer, Harvest period early

Lyman’s Large Summer: It’s odd for an early apple to have the depth of flavor of the Lyman’s and that’s why they were incredibly popular 150 years ago. These apples tend to be tart by today's standards. These are somewhat disease resistant but prone to scab and blight.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Pollination Group D, Cold hardy, Harvest period early

These well known traditional apples are popular for a reason. Their bright red skin, tender white flesh and aromatic, sweet, tart flavor makes them a favorite. We wish we had the kind of cool nights needed to bring out their best flavors in the fall but some years they’re amazing even here. Somewhat scab prone in wet climates. Tends somewhat biennial.

Categories: cider apple, dessert apple

Tags: Pollination Group B, Disease-resistant, Harvest period mid, Cold hardy

These sweet, long storing, late season apples are balanced in flavor. From Ohio in the 1940s it is the Ohio state apple. It’s a cross between Jonagold and Red Delicious. Bears on spurs. Heavy crops, but biennial unless thinned aggressively.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple, cider apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group D, Heavy producer

These are lovely, early ripening apples. They are mild, juicy and sweet. Large fruits conically shaped. These are somewhat prone to scab. Heavier crops every other year.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Pollination Group E, Heavy producer, Harvest period early

These very early season dessert apples come from Arkansas. The apples are large and the trees are productive but they are scab prone and quick to drop. These are Monark, with a K. These are a different variety than the Monarch, ending in CH.

Categories: dessert apple

Tags: Heavy producer, Cold hardy, Harvest period early, Southern US roots

This apple of unknown parentage originated on the farm of General Stephen Gardner in Worcester County in Massachusetts. It’s biennial and wants very specific growing conditions. We only have one tree in the entire orchard so don’t often have the scionwood for sale. It’s delicious for fresh eating and also known to be good in a pie.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Harvest period mid, Cold hardy, Pollination Group D

Named after the Mutsu province of Japan these were introduced in 1948. These are aromatic and sharp and will sweeten a little with time. These are fine for baking as well. For those of you who love a firm, crunchy apple like Granny Smith these should be a favorite. We find these to be challenging to grow in an organic orchard as they are very prone to scab.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group D, Heavy producer, Heat/low-chill tolerant

Newtown Pippin: From Newtown, Queens, New York in 1720. This is another one that experts advise waiting to eat. Thomas Jefferson planted these in Monticello in 1778 and had so much success with them that he eventually had 170 trees. These are much loved by cider makers, bakers and those who love a great apple in February. They have reasonable, but not fabulous, disease resistance.

Categories: cider apple, baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group C, Disease-resistant

Well known and extremely red, red fleshed apple native to Kyrgyzstan. These trees are however, very disease prone and slow growing. We have limited scions and cannot guarantee they do not carry scab. That said, we have used these in our own top-grafting with some success and find the top-grafted trees are much faster growing than those on rootstock.  

Categories: cider apple, Red Flesh

Tags: Heat/low-chill tolerant, Harvest period mid

These famous, still relatively common, apples came out of New York in 1800. They were among the first apple varieties brought to Oregon and they grow nicely here. A mild, late season apple that stores well.

Categories: baking/saucing apple, dessert apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group E, Cold hardy

These are large red, juicy, sweet/tart apples. These were a chance discovery in 1880s Michigan so its genetic heritage remains a mystery. Good for both culinary and fresh eating. Bears heavily on spurs. Branches tend to droop on older trees.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Pollination Group D, Heavy producer

Heirloom variety from the 18th century, may have originated in France but it is unclear. Though it is a favorite French dessert apple. Lightly russeted, good flavor with notes of honey and nuttiness. Also known as Winter Ribston. Good disease-resistance except it is susceptible to fire blight.

Categories: dessert apple, baking/saucing apple

Tags: Harvest period mid, Pollination Group E, Disease-resistant

These are early season cider apples. They are quite disease resistant and we’ve finally learned that if you wait until they drop to pick them, the flavor is quite good. Rich with a sprightly nature that makes it seem slightly carbonated. The texture is soft but not mushy. It’s taken us years to get to know this apple but now that we do we’re big fans.  They are fairly productive every year and the trees appear quite healthy though slow growing.

Categories: cider apple, dessert apple

Tags: Disease-resistant, Harvest period early

A wonderful cider apples in the bitter sweet category. These are very disease resistant and productive though only every other year. Highly prized by northwest cider makers.  We have these in bulk quantities.

Categories: cider apple

Tags: Harvest period late, Disease-resistant, Heavy producer