Shipping and local pickup

We are a bare root nursery, so we only ship when the plants are dormant and the ground workable. For our Zone 5b location, that is usually November and April. Seeds and scions ship throughout the Fall/Winter as we receive the orders.

We do everything we can to ensure that you get quality plants at a fair and affordable price. To help us accomplish this, we do a few things. The first is we use repurposed packing materials whenever possible. The second is we only offer small 1-2 year old plant stock through our mail order business. This keeps things easy to pack and shipping costs down as much as possible by avoiding costly surcharges for large bulky packages. Please note that due to this fact we often have to head back our taller grafted trees before shipping. This often requires a little bit of pruning on the customers end the first spring, but we feel the cost savings are worth the 5 extra minutes of pruning (please email with any questions and review our growing fruit trees page).

Shipping pricing: although we do what we can to minimize it, the fact is, shipping bulky plants is expensive and becoming more costly by the day. Our current shipping structure is as follows:

All orders will have a flat shipping charge of 14.99.

Small items (such as 1st year seedlings and scion wood): Usually ships via USPS - sometimes UPS.

Large items (such as grafted trees): Usually ships via UPS - sometimes USPS.

But as always - FREE SHIPPING on orders of $200 or more!

Local Pickup: We are primarily an online retail nursery, but we do like to offer the option of pickup here at the nursery during the spring and fall planting seasons for our local customers. Please place your order online and select the local pickup option at checkout. You will receive an email from us when your order is ready and we will set up a time (usually on Saturdays) that work for the both of us (again the trees will be sold bare root and will only be dug in November and April) . Please do not show up at the farm looking for orders without first making an appointment, thank you!