Hello to all my fellow Knights of Pomona and tree devotees around the globe. HAPPY NEW YEAR, bon hiver, & good tidings. I am taking a BIG BIG breath of relief after a long growing Read more…
gnarly
adj. Gnarled, misshapen, difficult, tangled. Slang. Cool, good, nasty, hairy, bad.
pippin
noun. An apple grown from seed. Slang. An excellent person or thing.
6TH POMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION // HIGH HIGHS & DRY DRIES // PENT UP POMONA
Welcome back all. Life in 2025 is equal parts plentiful and scant. On the heels of the summer fruit harvest, bringing the first apples in, we have had an amazingly abundant start to harvest season. Read more…
WHEELS KEEP TURNING // SCIONWOOD ORDERS OPEN // VOL 4. IN PRINT
Hi everyone! Happy New Year! Some time has passed since my last post, and so very much has happened! PomEx 5 took place on the heels of what will be considered a historic harvest year, Read more…
5th POMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION // POMONA WILL PROVIDE // APPLES ON THE VALLEY FLOOR
intro Hello again everybody! Hope you’ve all been praising Pomona and tasting her blessings this season. She is raining down fruit on us. A veritable avalanche of stone fruit, berries, and it’s bout time to Read more…
Natural Clocks // Scionwood Season // Gnarly Nursery Trees Webshop Debut // VOL. 3 in Print
Happy New Year all ye knights and devotees of Pomona! I apologize, as I do every time, for being quiet for so long on here and on social media. It’s been a busy end-of-season, scrambling Read more…
4th POMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION // The Decentralized Orchard // Vol. 3 Progress
Greetings all! As the summer season begins to ripen and the air of Autumn is creeping into some of our cooler nights, I am once again imagining the joy we will all be feeling together Read more…
The Malus Roadway Dilemma // A Ponderance on Volition and Consequence in Feral Tree fruit // Tree and Scion sale !
Hi All! Apologies for the long silence. Once again I am busy perpetually and don’t spend much time on the computer where I’m not working on Vol. 3 (I’m 25% of the way through the Read more…
Resilience & The Infernal Summer // 3rd POMOLOGICAL EXHIBITION // Wild Apple Shootout & Acquired Immunity // Vol. 2 Progress
I’m writing this with a huge grin on my face — still glowing after returning from Maine Apple Camp 2022. One of my favorite gatherings of all within the apple and cider world. Check out Read more…
GNARLY PIPPINS is who I am.
Hello all my wild apple folks! Been a minute on here. I’m taking some time to write a new post to articulate a couple of things, but most notably a piece of frustration that has Read more…
Orchardist, the Whimsical Specialist // Gnarly Nursery // 2nd Wild & Seedling Pomological Exhibition // INFO INSIDE
BUT FIRST! Announcing…. 2nd Wild and Seedling Pomological Exhibition Listen up! The second pomological exhibition of exclusively wild and seedling apples will be taking place on Friday November 5th at the Ashfield Community Hall in Read more…
Here is a complete list of the varieties — old and new — of the ever-evolving Gnarly Pippins collection of wild pomes. Though very different, and gathered from a relatively wide geographic range, what these Read more…