The Garrett Soil Conservation District
Fruit Tree and Bush Sale
Your Purchase Helps the District help our community
Our tree sale is open!!
Order now for pick up in April of 2025.
Tickets to the Cooperator’s Dinner are no longer available. If you are interested in coming to the dinner, please contact us at seth.metheny1@maryland.gov.
We think we impressed you last year! We’ve heard tons of great comments asking us to bring the sale back in 2025. And that is exactly what we are doing. It’s open now, so feel free to order any time. But you won’t pick your trees up until next April 2025.
Why buy from us? Well, besides the fact that you are helping us help the community, our trees have been custom designed for the Garrett County and surrounding area! They are all specifically selected for Garrett County, and many are on more expensive designer rootstocks that create trees with better cold-hardiness, more disease resistance, and deeper rooting to produce a sturdier tree with better drought tolerance. Plus, we now have different varieties in different sizes to choose from! Dwarf, Short Semi-Dwarf, Regular-Semi Dwarf, and Standard for some trees that are already Semi-Dwarf size naturally. Check out some of our photos from last year’s sale.
And if all that isn’t enough, it is our goal to make fruit trees and bushes affordable for you, in addition to raising funds and encouraging the planting of more fruit trees in the area. So, our trees are priced lower than you will find them most other places. Since pricing is lower, are you wondering about quality? Just ask anyone who bought from us last year what they think. These are high quality trees, most of which will come 4′ to 6′ tall and have 1/2″ to 5/8″ diameter trunks, with some exceptions like the dwarfs.
Our bushes are also very high quality, and they will come potted. We have a set of blueberries that ripens consecutively for prolonged harvest throughout the summer. And we have elderberries and raspberries. Keep in mind, if you are ordering red raspberries, they grow on first year canes, and you will be picking them up in April, so they will be small. The blueberries are two-year plants, and they will make your raspberry plants look a little scant. You’ll just have to see their potential.
We only have a set number of trees, and once they are gone, we may not be able to get more. Many of the trees we are carrying are special order trees. They are hard to get and what few of them are available are gone almost immediately. So, if you see something you want, don’t wait to order. Order it now.
Thank you so much for your support of our tree sale! And please tell all your friends about it.
Fund Raiser
For Garrett Soil Conservation District
Purchase Online
Pick up on Distribution Day
Help the Environment
While helping the community
Fruit Trees
Selected to grow in our area. Apple, pear, cherry, northern peach, and plum trees.
Package Deals
Set of 4 blueberries that ripen consecutively.
Bushes
Fruit bushes. Blueberry, Raspberry, and Elderberry.
Why We Chose These Varieties
We have selected APPLE trees that are superior for different applications:
- Heirloom – Summer Rambo, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent, Northern Spy
- Organic/No Spray – Freedom, GoldRush, Wolf River, Nova Spy, Northern Spy
- Fresh Eating – Crimson Crisp, Fuji, Freedom, GoldRush, Golden Delicious, Nova Spy, Summer Rambo, Northern Spy
- Apple Sauce – Yellow Transparent, Grandma’s applesauce apple; Wolf River, the 1800’s apple that has never been duplicated; and Summer Rambo, a Garrett County favorite.
- Baking – All of them can be used for baking. Summer Rambo, Wolf River, Yellow Transparent, and Northern Spy have won many baking awards.
- Cider – Wolf River, Northern Spy, Nova Spy, Summer Rambo, GoldRush
- Beginning Grower – GoldRush, Freedom, Wolf River, Nova Spy
- Storage – GoldRush, Fuji, Northern Spy
- Wildlife Food Source – They all make a great source of food for wildlife as well as us humans
- Exceptional Disease Resistance – Freedom, GoldRush, Northern Spy, Nova Spy
Blueberry Package (4 bushes)
We have selected blueberry varieties that ripen one after another, so if you plant all four varieties, you’ll have blueberries for weeks each summer!
CHERRY – Montmorency – The #1 Commercial Cherry and Kristen, a sweet cherry that will grow in Garrett County!
PLUM – The super disease resistant Kenmore NY9; Bluebyrd, a truly Black Knot resistant variety for sandy and silt loom soils; and Long John, a Black Knot resistant plum for heavy clay soils!
PEAR – Shenandoah, a Fire Blight resistant variety born in Appalachia; Seckel, the highly disease resistant dessert pear; and Harrow Sweet, the most Fire Blight resistant northern pear we could find.
NORTHERN PEACHES –
We had a lot of requests for peaches, but we didn’t want to offer them until we were sure we could make peaches available that would grow here in Garrett County. Now, here they are!
Veteran – One of the most cold-hardy peaches in existence.
Contender – A cold-hardy, disease resistant peach that has seen success in Garrett County for several decades.
Rotarian Rose – a northern White Peach, believe it or not! Rotarian Rose is so cold-tolerant that it will actually grow in zone 4.
RASPBERRIES –
Black Raspberries – known to have antioxidants that fight cancer.
Red Raspberries – a healthy and tasty summer treat.
ELDERBERRIES – Bob Gordon which is, believe it or not, resistant to Japanese Beetles and Ranch, a super hardy cultivar.
Featured Trees and Bushes
This is only a sampling of the items that we have available. Click on the “See All Choices” or the “Shop Now” button below to view our catalog.
Our trees and bushes have been selected specifically for Garrett County’s harsh climate. And we have tried to give you a lot of information about each one so that you can find good fits.
But if you do need advice about tree or bush selection or about planting, feel free to contact us. We’ll be happy to help.
Where the Money Goes
Garrett Soil Conservation District uses funds from things like this tree sale to provide a valuable service to the community.
Here are just a few examples.
Cristy Enlow was the 2023 winner of the Garrett SCD Board of Supervisor’s Scholarship in the amount of $1000. She enrolled in Potomac State College last fall where she is studying Agribusiness Management and Sustainable Agriculture Entrepreneurship. Learn more about Cristy and the scholarship.
$1000 Scholarship
Supporting local students working toward careers in agriculture and natural resources
The District helps protect the soil and water in Garrett County through its many programs. And did you know they also help protect endangered wildlife, like the little Golden-Winged Warbler? Although the MDA and the County help the District with administrative costs, only specific things are covered. The District also has to raise funding to pay for many of their expenses to continue services to the community.
Administrative Costs
To operate the Garrett SCD
Each year Garrett Soil Conservation District sponsors the Garrett County Envirothon to help students learn about conservation. GSCD also holds contests and provides other educational opportunities.
Envirothon and other Educational Opportunities
Helping students learn about conservation
PIck-up Day will be in April 2025
All orders must be picked up at our pick-up location on Pick-up Day. The location and date will be announced as it draws closer. The pick-up location will be in Garrett County, Maryland.
We are sorry, but we cannot ship any items.