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Despite being the most challenging growing year we have ever experienced, we expanded our plant collections significantly this year, with the hopes of sharing these with our customers in the future. A massive drought settled in and strangled production from late spring into winter. In February, we planted hundreds of trees into our scionwood orchard, including apples, pears, sour cherries, quince and a few peach varieties. In March, many more trees were grafted and planted into our nursery beds. Unfortunately the drought took a toll on these and we lost 50% of our grafts. We expanded our mint collection to include almost 40 varieties (these will become available in the future as root cuttings). Because our main nursery site is now completely planted, we spent the year searching for land nearby. We believe we have found a new location to continue growing our collections and hope to begin planting this winter/spring 2023. Our intent is to increase our persimmon, pawpaw and pear collections significantly. Along with a large variety of Jerusalem Artichokes. There are many other projects we are working on, such as a collection of Munson grapes, hybrid hazelnuts, chestnuts, useful hardy perennials, cold-hardy figs and mulberries. As things mature and become available, we will update their status on our website. To be the first to be informed and to stay up to date, subscribe to our mailing list at the bottom of this page.

With summer rolling on, we can begin to see standouts among our newly grafted fruit trees. We've been working in the nursery in the morning hours, unwrapping graft unions which may girdle the trees and taking stock of varieties that look the most vigorous. Among the apples, Limbertwig varieties appear to be doing the best, in general. With some other standouts, such as Enterprise and various crabs. As for pears, Nova appears the most vigorous so far. Mulberries are all doing very well (I didn't get any photos of them though). As well as the pawpaws, jujubes and persimmons. If you are interested in learning more, sign up for our mailing list.

We launched our apiary last year with the construction of several Layens hives and swarm traps. We use treatment free methods and raise bees as close to their natural life cycle as possible. This means no feeding sugar, no miticides or treatments and we do not prevent swarming. Our aim is to work with local bee genetics in order to allow the strongest to survive and proliferate. This last week has been spent working in the apiary. We collected five feral swarms this month and have been working on relocating them to our farm. After they are adjusted, we move them into permanent hives where they can grow and expand.

Order Tart Cherry Scion For Grafting Only Tart Cherries are suitable to be grown in our region, where late frosts and numerous diseases threaten this fragile yet beautiful tree. We offer scion from several varieties that have the best tolerance to our variable weather, while producing abundant crops of pie cherries each year. All of our cherry trees are grown at our zone 6 nursery in Kansas. We recommend grafting scion onto Mazzard rootstock. Scion wood is only available in mid to late winter. Sort by Quick View Jubileum Sour Cherry Scionwood Price $6.00 Out of Stock Quick View Nanking Cherry Scionwood Price $6.00 Out of Stock Quick View Lutowka Bush Cherry Scionwood Price $6.00 Out of Stock Quick View Romeo Bush Cherry Scionwood Price $6.00 Out of Stock Quick View Carmine Jewel Bush Cherry Scionwood Price $6.00 Out of Stock Quick View Sumadinka Tart Cherry Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Northstar Tart Cherry Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Kansas Sweet Cherry Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Danube Sour Cherry Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Balaton Sour Cherry Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock 1

Order Quince Scion Wood For Grafting Quince (Cydonia Oblonga) is an ancient fruit with a long history of cultivation by the Romans and Greeks throughout the Mediterranean region. For us, growing quince in Kansas is still experimental, and we offer scion from the trees in our orchard which show the most promise. All of our quince trees are grown at our zone 6 nursery in Kansas. We recommend grafting scion onto Quince "A" or BA29C rootstocks. We are experimenting with grafting quince onto pear rootstock and so far have seen promising results. Scion wood is only available in mid to late winter. Sort by Quick View Smyrna Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Pineapple Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Perfume Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Orange Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Krimskaya Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Hemus Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Golden Smyrna Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Crimea Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Cooke’s Jumbo Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Constantinople Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock Quick View Aromatnaya Quince Scionwood Price $4.00 Out of Stock 1

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