APPLE TREE ORDER

The company we ordered our apple trees from last year is sold out

HOWEVER,

this company is doing a

very exciting,
amazing preservation
of HUNDREDS
OF ANTIQUE & HEIRLOOM VARIETIES

by offering the same method of apple trees at the same amazing price:

Please read below - the text is copy and pasted from their website:
http://www.wagonwheelorchard.blogspot.com/

Benchgrafts still available for 2012 – Please order soon, our rootstock is getting reserved. We will be grafting in late February through late April. When the rootstock runs out we will stop taking orders. We have a 10 tree minimum and no maximum. Please give us plenty of alternate choices in your orders as scion stock is starting to dwindle.

Below is the complete 2012 benchgraft list. It does contain an entire inventory of several orchards – please note we will not graft apples or pears still under patent.

This is the most extensive list ever offered for custom grafting antique apples. Check our previous post for the pear list. Most likely you will never see such an offering again.

Please check your local rules regarding shipping in apples and pears.

Many of the varieties listed below will only be available for 2012 - please consider ordering additional trees to preserve these endangered apples and pears. One of our heroes, Nick Botner is retiring and his collection needs to be preserved (he currently has his massive orchard and home for sale) - the only way to ensure that is to get these fruit trees backed up in as many locations as possible. The list below is an inventory and benchgraft list only - we cannot supply scionwood from this list at our normal prices. We will pay on average $5.50 a stick from this list and then buy scionwood to graft to at a $2.00 average - then we will absorb shipping/handling/insurance costs to deliver them to you at $10/tree with a 10 tree minimum. We are primarily concerned with preservation of this collection - if you would like to swap or purchase scionwood please email us at wagonwheelmail@aol.com or call us at 913-893-6050.


Mail a check with a summary of your order to Wagon Wheel Orchard 15380 Edgerton Rd Gardner KS 66030. First requested/first fulfilled - please do not wait until last minute! We will be shipping in late March to early April or as weather permits.

Questions? - email wagonwheelmail@aol.com

GO TO THE WEBSITE FOR THEIR LIST OF hundreds! of APPLE
(AND PEAR) TREES AVAILABLE

Started Gardening yet?

So, we have four growing season here. really. Our mild winters lend well to crops all winter long. Anything that can take a light frost rarely if ever needs to be covered at all. And in next few weeks we can plant for one last burst of growth before the summer plantings (which is actually a smaller number) See the growing calendar here or in the side bar from the Urban Farm in Phx.

However, the more that I learn about nutrient-dense growing (better than organic - just how Nature would like to have it if she could have her way around us), the more I wonder if we are missing out on more than what we realize. Tomatoes, pepper, and others can grow and bear perennially here. Wouldn't you like to eat a tomato out of your yard... any month of the year? I sure would.

Here is a video and low key method to gardening that is definitely worth a look. If nothing else at all, it is a little hands on, free yard improvement. And a summer later (or longer), If you end up enjoying the results, then plant a few seeds. What can it hurt? = nothing really. And it could provide a great deal of benefit. So take a look at the video and see if you too are inspired to call a tree trimmer ;) http://backtoedenfilm.com/

(and since you may not be able to water your own yard or be legally free to even collect rain water in States and Federal in some not far distant future, It would be wise to be trust in the science under your feet. This brings to mind a certain story though)

Anyone else wishing they'd actually bought canned butter?

I found out about canned butter and cheese years ago - first weirded out by it (really rare here in the US) and then excited by it -, but I never actually bought it. Then I wished I had already when the price increased (slightly) and it was 'always' our of stock... I knew I'd regret it if didn't then but I didn't..... and now I'm there; I regret not buying that "overpriced" butter. Well, sigh, butter in the fridge section now costs more per pound than the canned butter did just a few years ago. (canned butter, dented for discount)

canning your own - I think that melting the butter first and skimming off the milk proteins ("clarified butter", ghee) and then canning just the oil may be a good way to go about it. The benefits of raw butter went away at the butter stage anyway, so might as well eliminate the portion that is more likely to be problematic. mmmm, the imagery of all that liquid gold on a shelf.

And as for cheese - I'm sure that is just as apparent to all of you in price increase.

When the people relinquished their freedoms to the gov't over and over in our past generations they sure weren't thinking of the future. And now we have a big scarred tangled web that is going to have to fall before the masses are willing to tear it down and straighten it out.
[educate yourself! recent subsidies in US and abroad, nutrition replaced by big power holders,...)

But while the masses catch up and the knowledgeable reject the truth there are some that are there still doing it right and so I do still have a source for raw grass fed butter that "I suppose" is still "cheap" enough. (How much longer will we have groups such as these be able to source it for us?!)
But I HAVE to track down cheese wax for a "cheap enough" price if I'm going to do that. So anyone have any ideas?! Yes, I know, I can buy it on the internet. (wax) I just have to make it happen. ( waxing cheese - many others are even better)

....and in the meantime, I'm going to keep my peepers [eyes] open for info on raising goats :)