Resources

Scion Exchanges

The NAFEX members have switched over to using the North American Scion Exchange facebook group for their scion exchanges. Despite the name and some overlap in membership it is a separate group from NAFEX and you will have to join that facebook group (which is free).

Resource, Nurseries, Supplies, and Links

NAFEX is committed to providing resources, links to nurseries, suppliers, and links to helpful sites, other organizations, and more to our members and the general public. This list is for the convenience of members and the general public. This listing does NOT suggest endorsement by NAFEX and it is in no way comprehensive.

Nurseries and Supply Stores By US State

The following is a select list of nurseries by state to see nurseries and supply stores in the U.S. and Canada, followed by a link to thousands of mail order catalogs.

Alabama

Neighbors Nursery – Permanently closed.

Lawn-Gardening-Tools specializing in garden hand tools, pea shellers, and high speed nut crackers.

Alaska

Jerry Appleseed Nursery – Permanently closed.

Arizona

Arkansas

Blossom Nursery,  216 CR 326, Eureka Springs,  AR 72632 USA  Ginko seeds, pawpaw seeds and trees.

 California

Dave Wilson Nursery offers a wide selection of fruit and nut trees and grapevines to the wholesale and commercial industry. Their extensive web site gives links to retail and mail order sources for their trees.

Fork & Spade, 1313 Scenic Drive, Modesto, CA, 95355.  Bareroot Roses & Fruit Trees, Garden Accents, and Tools

Greenmantle Nursery, Ram and Marissa Fishman, 3010 Ettersburg Road,  Garberville, CA   95542.  (707) 986-7504. Catalog $5. Greenmantle specializes in organically-grown fruit trees and roses, particularly older varieties. The apple listing includes many selections bred by Albert F. Etter{1872-1950}; these are notable for pink- fleshed types and dessert-quality crab hybrids. There is also an assortment of European hard cider varieties.

Trees of Antiquity, 20 Wellsona Road Paso Robles, CA 93446. (805) 467-9909.  Large selection of apples and many other fruits.  Free catalog.

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

Florida

Chestnut Hill Nursery, 15105 NW 94 Ave, Alachua, FL   32615. (800) 669-2067 – toll free. 386-462-2820 – local 386-462-4330 – fax. Wholesale only.   Chestnut trees, tropical fruits, temperate fruits, berries, some shade trees.

Just Fruits and Exotics, 30 Saint Frances Street, Crawfordville, FL 32327, (850) 926-5644, Email: info@justfruitsandexotics.com. Offers a variety of edible and exotic fruits.

Georgia

Bottoms Nursery – Concord, GA, (770) 884-5661. Specializes in Muscadine Grapes, Blueberries, and Blackberries and many other types of small, fruit-bearing plants.

Ison’s Nursery & Vineyards, Brooks, GA   30205.  (800) 733-0324.  Muscadine grapes and other fruits.

Johnson Nursery, Inc., Ellijay, GA – Permanently closed. Website available for information.

Lawson’s Nursery, Ballground, GA – Permanently closed.

Hawaii

Idaho

Illinois

Applesource, Jill Vorbeck, 1716 Apples Road, Chapin, IL 62628. (800) 588-3854. Applesource offers high quality, value priced tools for processing fresh apples.

Indiana

Henry Fields Nursery, Carries a large selection of fruit varieties including several new releases not available to the commercial market. To request a catalog call (513) 354-1496.

Indiana Berry and Plant Co., 5218 W. 500 South, Huntingburg, IN 47542. (800) 295-2226. Specializes in berries and other small fruits.

Iowa

Kansas

39th Parallel Nursery and Orchard, 1517 N 1800 Rd (Hwy 40), Lawrence, KS 66044, (785) 594-3879. A small family farm that preserves and distributes rare and Heirloom fruit varieties ideal for the Midwest.

Wagon Wheel Orchard – 15380 Edgerton Rd, Gardner, KS (913)893-6050. A preservation orchard that benchgrafts over 1,000 varieties of apple and pear every spring. Check fall listing for availability. wagonwheelmail@aol.com

Kentucky

England’s Orchard and Nursery, 2338 Highway 2004, McKee, KY, 40447, (606) 965-2228, Email: nuttrees@prtcnet.org Seller of Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, Pecans,  Walnut, Heartnuts, Hickories, Jujube, Persimmon and more.

Nolin River Nut Tree Nursery, 797 Port Wooden Rd., Upton, KY 42784, (270) 369-8551 Mon.-Sat. 7-7 Central Time. Grafted nut trees and persimmons.

Louisiana

Louisiana Nursery, The Durios Family, Route 7, Box 43, Opelousas, LA   70570. (318) 948-3696.  Fruiting trees shrubs, vines, and many other plants including magnolias.  Catalog $6 or free list.

Akin Sherwood’s Greenhouses – Permanently closed.

Maine

Fedco Trees, John Bunker, PO Box 520-A, Waterville, ME 04903. Hardy trees and plants, including heirloom apple trees and other fruits.

Maryland

Massachusetts

Nourse Farms – Nourse Farms 41 River Rd, South Deerfield, Ma 01373 (413)665-2658 Specializing in small fruits, including strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, and ribes. Free catalog.

Tripple Brook Farm, 37 Middle Road, Southampton, MA   01073.     (413) 527-4626.  Unusual plants.  Free catalog.

Michigan

Bluebird Orchard & Nursery,  Tim Strickler, 4711 Three Mile Rd NE, Grand Rapids, MI  49525.  (616) 361-0919.  Email stricklt@gvsu.edu. Tim sells apple scionwood, but no longer grows trees for sale.

Morse Nursery, 12300 Betz Rd, Battle Creek MI 49015 (800) 338-2105 Specializes in trees that produce fruit and acorns to attract and feed wildlife, such as persimmon, paw paw, wild pear, crabapple, etc.

Hartmann’s Plant Company, PO Box 100, Lacota MI 49063.  Sells many varieties of blueberries and other small fruits.

Nash Nurseries, 4975 W. Grand River Rd., Owosso, MI 48867-9292. (517) 651-5278, NashFarm@shianet.org  Container stock of grafted pawpaw, hybrid chestnuts, pine nuts & fruit trees.

The Apple Branch, Antique apple bench grafts, rootstock and apple scion wood. PO Box 281 Portland, MI 48875. (517) 648-2443. Email applebranch@sbcglobal.net.

Minnesota

Honeyberry USA, PO Box 512, Bagley, MN 56621 218-694-3071. Specializing in cold hardy berry trees imported from Canada – honeyberry, dwarf sour cherry, and saskatoon.

Lake Sylvia Vineyard Nursery, 13375 51st Avenue, South Haven, MN 55382.  Hardy grapevines.

Mississippi

Missouri

Stark Bros Nurseries, P.O. Box 10, Louisiana, MO 63353 (800) 325-4180.  Fruit trees, nut trees, small fruits.  Free catalog.

Montana

Lawyer Nursery, Inc., 950 Highway 200 West, Plains, MT 59859 . Large selection of field grown seedlings. 800-551-9875 (VOICE) 406-826-5700 (FAX).

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

Christian Homesteading Movement, Richard Fahey, Oxford, NY   13830. Scionwood of many varieties of apples plus other fruit.  No telephone number given; send SASE.

Cummins Nursery, 18 Glass Factory Bay Road, Geneva, NY   14456.  (315) 789-7083.  Specializes in disease-resistant varieties of apples and the new disease-resistant Geneva rootstocks for apples.  Carries the NY-numbered stone- fruit varieties and new releases.

Henry Leuthardt Nursery, Montauk Highway, Box 666, East Moriches, Long Island, NY   11940.  (516) 878-1387.  Specializes in dwarf and espalier-trained fruit trees.  Antique and European varieties.  Catalog $1.

Miller Nurseries, 5060 West Lake Road, Canandaigua, NY   14424. (800) 836-9630.  A fine list of new and old fruit.

St. Lawrence Nursery, 325 State Highway 345, Potsdam, NY   13676. (315) 265-6739.  Fruit and nut trees for the northern climate.

North Carolina

Big Horse Creek Farm, Ron & Suzanne Joyner, P.O. Box 70, Lansing, NC 28643. (336) 384-1134.  Sells scion wood of Southern Appalachian Apple Trees.

Century Farm Orchards – David Vernon, Reidsville, NC, P.O. Box 271 Altamahaw, NC 27202, (336) 349-5709, email: david@centuryfarmorchards.com. A small, family-owned and operated nursery specializing in old southern apples. Also sells pears and figs.

North Dakota

Ohio

A. M. Leonard, Inc., PO Box 816, Piqua, OH   45356.  (800) 543-8955.  A complete catalog of orchard supplies, tools, etc.  Fast service.

Oklahoma

Oregon

Copenhaven Farms – 2990 SW Copenhaven Road Gaston, OR 97119, (503)-985-7161, Email: info@copenhavenfarms.com. Grows high-quality, virus-free rootstock and seedlings for fruit trees.

Forestfarm, Ray and Peg Prag, 990 Tetherow Road, Williams, OR   97544. Many rare and unusual plants.  Catalog $3.

Lon J. Rombough, PO Box 365, Aurora, OR 97002-0365  Phone (503) 678-1410  Cuttings of a large selection of table grapes and wine grapes.

One Green World Nursery – 6469 SE 134th Ave, Portland, OR 97236, (877) 353-4028, Email: info@onegreenworld.com. Offers unique and rare fruit and nut trees, shrubs, and vines. Also sells seeds.

Temperate Orchard Conservancy – PO Box 529, Molalla, OR 97038, email: AlmatyFarmTOC@gmail.com. A nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving and sharing the genetic diversity of tree fruits that can be grown in the temperate climate zones of the United States and other countries. Sells scions from the late Nick Botner’s apple collection.

TRECO, Oregon Rootstock & Tree Co., Inc., 10906 Monitor-McKee Road NE, Woodburn, OR   97071.  (503) 634-2209.  Extensive line of dwarfing rootstocks.  Minimum order 100.

Whitman Farms, Lucile Whitman, 3995 Gibson NW, Salem, OR   97304. (503) 585-8728.  Many gooseberry and currant varieties, plus other fruits.

Willamette Nurseries, Inc..25571 S. Barlow Rd, Canby, OR 97013
(800)852-2018 Seedling and clonal fruit tree underrstock 50 pc min

Pennsylvania

Adams County Nursery, Inc., PO Box 108, Nursery Road, Aspers, PA 17304.   (717) 677-8105.  Old nursery with good reputation.  All of the popular tree fruits, including a large number of peach varieties.

Trees of Joy, Bethlehem, PA – Has a large collection of Fig tree varieties as well as Jujube, Pawpaw, Persimmon and Kiwi. 

Rhode Island

South Carolina

McKenzie Farms, 2115 Olanta Hwy, Scranton, SC 29591 (843) 389-4831 specializes in cold hardy citrus, eucalyptus and some palms.

Woodlanders, Inc., 1128 Colleton Avenue, Aiken, SC   29801.  (803) 648-7522.  A wide variety of hard-to-find southern plants.

South Dakota

Tennessee

Hidden Springs Nursery, Annie Black & Diana Lalani. 170 Hidden Springs Lane, Cookeville, TN   38501.  (931) 268-2592. Disease resistant,  organically grown unusual fruit trees including pawpaw, quince, persimmon  and kiwi.

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Perfect Circle Farm, Buzz & Sandra Ferver, 1170 Airport Rd., Berlin, VT 05641 (by appt). Specializes in nut trees, fruit trees and berry shrubs. USDA Hardiness Zone 4. Email: buzzplants@gmail.com

Walden Heights Nursery and Orchard, 120 Vermont Route 215 Walden, VT 05873 802.563.3012
Certified Organic fruit trees, scionwood, and rootstocks–hundreds of varieties.

Virginia

Edible Landscaping, PO Box 77, Afton, VA 22920. (434)361-9134 . Hardy kiwis, rust-resistant currants, autumn olive, much more.

Vintage Virginia Apples, PO Box 210, North Garden, VA 22959 (434)295-5382  Gift boxes of classic apples, rootstocks, young trees and scionwood, workshops.

Washington

Burnt Ridge Nursery, 432 Burnt Ridge Rd., Onalaska, WA 98570 Long-time NAFEX member, Michael Dolan, offers a wide variety of nuts, fruits and native plants.  Phone and Fax (360) 985-2873.

Calendula Horticultural Books, 1411 NW 120th St, Vancouver, WA 98685.(360) 573-6581 Specializes in old and out-of-print books on gardening, garden history, fruit, etc.

Cloud Mountain Farm,  6906 Goodwin Road, Everson, WA 98247.  (360) 966-5859  Large selection of   many fruits especially for North West gardens.

C & O Nursery, PO Box 116, Wenatchee, WA   98807.  (800) 232-2636. Many varieties of fine fruit trees.  A commercial nursery, but accepts retail customers.

Raintree Nursery, 391 Butts Road, Morton, WA   98356.  (360) 496-6400.  Fruit and nut trees, rootstocks, berries and vines.

WSU Mount Vernon Northwestern Washington Research and Extension Center, 16650 State Route 536 Mount Vernon, WA 98273. (360) 848-6120. A collection of scionwood resources.

Van Well Nursery, 2821 Grant Road · PO BOX 1339 Wenatchee, WA 98807 509-886-8189  TOLL FREE: 1-800-572-1553.   More than 150 fruit tree varieties.

West Virginia

Wisconsin

Gempler’s, 100 Countryside Dr., PO Box 270, Belleville, WI 53508.  (800) 382-8473.  All sorts of safety equipment and protective clothes.

Jung Quality Seeds, Randolph, WI   53957.  (800) 247-5864.  Good list of fruits.

Wyoming

US Territories

Montoso Gardens, Bryan Brunner, Hwy 120, KM 18.9, Box 692, Maricao, PR 00606 (787) 221-0614 specialize in rare and exotic tropical fruit trees and seeds. Certified to ship anywhere.


CANADA

Apple Luscious Organic OrchardHarry & Debbie Burton, 110 Heidi Place, Salt Spring Island, BC, V8K-1W5
250-653-2007  About 150 apple varieties. 1 year bear root whips.

Hardy Grapes for the Canada ColdOver 60 grape varieties.  Mostly dormant rootless grape cutting”;   some rooted cuttings, and a few potted grapes.  Bert Dunn    RR4 Tottenham   Ont    zone 4b

Corn Hill Nursery, RR 5, Petitcodiac, NB E0A 2H0. (506) 756-3635. Antique apples and other fruit.No fruit trees to the US.

O’Keefe Grange – Bill & Lyn O’Keefe – 1070 Conc. 2 Arran, RR 1 Dobbinton, Ontario Canada N0H 1L0 – 519 934 3673 – E Mail okeefegrange67@hotmail.com – Custom grafting and sale of scionwood of over 100 varieties of apples and pears. Apple tasting (free) every Thanksgiving weekend.

Rhoras Nursery, 32983 Wills Road Wainfleet Ontario, LOS 1VO (950)-899-3508. rhoras@nuttrees.com

Siloam Orchard, Eric Hambly, RR#1, Uxbridge, Ontario L9P 1R1 (905)852-9418  Fax: (905)852-3182.  They carry Heritage, modern and prairie hardy apples, pears, stone fruit and small fruit.


Mail Order Nurseries

We recommend checking The Garden Watchdog by Dave’s Garden for a free directory of thousands of mail order gardening companies. To update or to have your link considered for this page, click here  (you must be logged in to davesgarden.com).

Cyndi’s Catalog of Garden Cataolgs — provides an extensive list of all sorts of gardening catalogs.

Pennsylvania Tree Fruit Production Guide has a list of useful web sites.


Help!

Help is needed to keep this list up-to-date. To add, revise, or remove a link, please email NAFEX webmaster.

Last update March 2023.


Web Pages of NAFEX Members

Some of our members web sites are listed below. If you are a NAFEX member and would like your website listed, please send information to admin@nafexmembers.org.

Lon J. Rombough — NAFEX member, author, horticulturist, grape master, Lon blogs at http://lonrombough.livejournal.com/ and offers his products and services at bunchgrapes.com.

Harry Burton, owner of Apple Lucious Organic Orchard in Salt Spring Island, British Columbia writes about orchard happenings.

The Callahan Garden Page

Pete Tallman’s pageRubus (ex. raspberry and blackberry) group coordinator

Grow Organic Apples – The Holistic Orchard Network by the late Michael Phillips.

If a member has a site that is of interest to fruit growers, please send information to: admin@nafexmembers.org.

Related Web Sites and Resources

  1. Home Orchard Society – A nonprofit organization dedicated to growing fruit at home.
  2. Cold Climate Gardening – Help for growing fruit in cold regions.
  3. Applesource is a source for apples for taste evaluation. They have a wide selection of old, unusual, rare, new, good tasting, ugly, beautiful, tart and sweet apples for you to enjoy. There are cultural suggestions for home orchardists as well as variety suggestions.
  4. California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. – Excellent source of material about a wide range of fruit growing with emphasis on tropical and subtropical fruits.
  5. Cornell University Education – Source of fruit growing information, apple growing, cider making, grafting information and more.
  6. The Garden Gate offers gardeners and nature lovers links to useful and interesting sites around the world as well as a growing collection of original materials.”
  7. The Garden Web is a collection of gardening resources, including an on-line seed/plant exchange service.
  8. The National Clonal Germplasm Repository at Corvallis, Oregon is the site for preservation of hazelnut, strawberry, pear, current, gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry and cranberry germplasm.
  9. National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Tree Fruit/Nut Crops and Grapes at Davis, California is the site for kiwi, fig, walnut, mulberry, olive, pistachio, prunus (almond, apricot, peach, plum, cherry), persimmon and pomegranate germplasm preservation.
  10. Plant Genetic Resources Unit at Geneva, New York is the repository for apples, tart cherries and grapes.
  11. USDA-ARS Tree Fruit Research Laboratory at Wenatchee, Washington. Good site for apple information.
  12. Northern Nut Growers Association has information on nut growing and related crops.
  13. Virtual Orchard Great site to visit for apple information.
  14. Mid-Atlantic Regional Fruit Loop – fruit growing information from three universities.
  15. University of Vermont – Information on Apples
  16. Northeastern IPM – Northeastern fruit pest management
  17. The Good Fruit Grower – Periodical with a northwestern U.S. slant.
  18. Texas Plant Disease Handbook – Information on plant diseases with a great deal of information on fruit diseases.
  19. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign IPM – IPM (Industrial Pest Management) information for Apples, Blueberries, Grapes, Peaches and Strawberries.
  20. Northumberland BerryWorks – Currants and Gooseberries
  21. Western Cascade Fruit Society – Aspiring hobby orchardists and backyard fruit growers in Western Washington
  22. Orange Pippin – Descriptions of apple varieties and origins
  23. Castoroil.in – Resources and information on over 200 plant oils
  24. Midfex – Midwest Fruit Explorers, concentrated in Great Lakes region.
  25. Interactive Plant Hardiness Map from the USDA
  26. Buncombe Fruit and Nut Club —Blog, Google Group Facebook page.