The Garrett Soil Conservation District
Store and Equipment Rental
Your Purchase Helps the District help our community
Our Tree and Bush Sale for 2023 is over, but look for our 2024 sale beginning mid summer. If there are certain varieties that you would like to see offered, please email us at jeannie.frazee@maryland.gov.
If you have a rental equipment invoice, go to Store and search for your invoice number.
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 and plum trees.
Package Deals
Sets of fruit trees or berry bushes to make selection super easy.
Bushes
Fruit bushes. Blueberry, Raspberry, and Elderberry.
Why We Chose These Varieties
We have selected APPLE trees that are superior for different applications:
- Fresh Eating – The ever popular Crimson Crisp, Gala and Fuji
- Apple Sauce – Yellow Transparent, Grandma’s applesauce apple
- Baking – Gala and Yellow Transparent
- Hard Cider – Albemarle Pippen, voted one of the top three hard cider apples in the world
- Salad Apple – Autumn Crisp, doesn’t turn brown as quickly when cut due to high Vitamin C content.
- Cider – Albemarle Pippen and GoldRush, a full-bodied taste for cider
- Beginning Grower – GoldRush, Ruby Rush
- Storage – Crimson Crisp, Gala, GoldRush, Ruby Rush
- Wildlife Food Source – Ruby Rush (also a great fresh eating apple for people)
- Exceptional Disease Resistance – Albemarle Pippen, Yellow Transparent, GoldRush, Ruby Rush
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
PLUM – The heavy bearing Castleton and Long John a truly Black Knot resistant variety!
PEAR – Potomac, a Maryland variety that is resistant to Fireblight, and Bartlett, the pear that can bear fruit for 50 to 100 years! Golden Russet Bosc is Sold Out.
RASPBERRIES –
Black – Pequot Lakes – known to have antioxidants that fight cancer.
Red – Addison – An internationally known variety that was bred by a former resident of Garrett County.
ELDERBERRIES – Bob Gordon which is, believe it or not, resistant to Japanese Beetles and Wyldewood, a later bearing elderberry. Buy both for a longer elderberry harvest!
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 staff are experts in which trees and bushes grow best in our area, so you can be sure items offered have the best ability to adapt to our harsh climate.
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 this 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 2024
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.