Share and remember
Share a promising tree, an old name, a family recipe, a historical photograph, or a story that might otherwise disappear.
Share a tree story →Help the work take root
Carry a rare apple from memory
into the future.
Contributions, partnerships, expertise, and future culture sales can all help sustain the long work between finding a tree and establishing a living collection.
What support makes possible
Give promising records a chance to become living collections.
Fieldwork while the moment is right
Fruit has a short season and dormant scion collection has a narrow window. Travel, photography, measurements, supplies, and careful records all begin outside the lab.
Evidence that can guide decisions
Historical research, comparisons with known collections, DNA testing, and laboratory trials help determine what a tree may be and how best to care for it.
Years of patient laboratory care
Culture media, sterile vessels, controlled growing space, repeated attempts, greenhouse acclimation, and long-term maintenance continue well after the first visit.
Four ways to help
Support can take more than one form.
Contribute directly
Help cover field documentation, laboratory supplies, testing, greenhouse care, and the long maintenance period between collection and distribution.
Ask how to contribute →Partner with us
Orchards, researchers, historical groups, foundations, sponsors, and community organizations can offer knowledge, access, expertise, or support for specific work.
Start a conversation →Grow the collection
When selected material is stable and appropriate to distribute, purchasing cultures or propagated plants can help fund continued preservation while placing documented copies in more than one orchard.
Ask about future availability →A practical preservation model
Sharing material can make the collection safer.
When selected material is stable and appropriate to distribute, we expect sales of cultures and propagated plants to help support the catalog, laboratory work, and continued preservation.
Commercial availability can also serve the mission: a tree becomes safer when well-documented copies are growing in more than one place.
Financial support is not a tax-deductible charitable donation and does not purchase an ownership interest in any tree, culture, or future product.