Rediscovered Fruit

The  San Juan Islands Pomona, Rediscovered Fruit, and Old Wood Ciders projects are part of local conservation research cooperative Kwiaht's  food security focus. The Pomona is our effort to catalog, identify, map, and evaluate heritage and locally adapted fruit varieties in the San Juan archipelago. Through our Rediscovered Fruit project we work to locate and assist with the restoration of old island orchards and to curate a reference collection of locally adapted varieties at our Hummel Lake research garden and orchard. In 2021 we started a WSDA funded  Old Wood Ciders project to evaluate heritage island fruit making specialty ciders. And in 2024, in partnership with Washington State University's MyFruitTree project we added apple variety and pedigree identification using genetic fingerprinting.

You can adopt a variety, invite us to map your trees,  have your trees sampled for genetic fingerprinting, or share cuttings and learn to graft at our annual scionwood exchanges.