Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Take a moment to remember Our Mission Rongoa Marae Roa The vision of the Koanga Institute was born out of 30 years of collecting heritage The gardeners fruit trees, vegetables and flowers by Kay Baxter and others, in association with The cooks the Koanga Institute. This nationally important collection is in turn built on the The families we share our meals with foundation of hundreds of generations of gardeners and farmers who have nurtured the biodiversity and cultural heritage upon which civilisation has developed (we The seeds that bring us the spirit of the earth and the sky to give us life; have co-evolved with our food plants). And to especially thank all those thousands of generations of gardeners uch of Koanga Institute’s work was in response to the fact that in the last 100 years much of who grew the seeds, loved the seeds, listened to the seeds, talked to the seeds, the genetic biodiversity in food plants, all over the world, has disappeared as a result of the and selected and saved the seeds for the survival of their families, M industrialisation of our food production. communities and ancestors. We are all living on the love our ancestors gifted us. In the process of “saving the seeds”, all those involved have come to the wider realisation that not just the ecology of our “food evolution” has been compromised by industrialisation, but many It is our turn to be the ancestors. other aspects of our “human ecology” have likewise been compromised, and we can’t address the It is our responsibility. one issue (e.g. seed saving) in isolation. Seed saving is one aspect of the broader need to address our “human ecology”. Thus, while an immediate priority for the Institute is seed protection and It is our opportunity. conservation, it is also committed to contributing practical holistic solutions in the wider field of sustainable living:

• Protection, conservation Contents and development of NZ’s Our Mission 3 Nectarines 26 genetic and cultural heritage food plants. Solstice Tree Day 4 Nuts 26 • Understanding the Membership Information 5 Olives 27 connections between soil Editorial - Kay Baxter 6 Peaches 28 health, plant and animal Forest Garden Working Bee 8 Peacherines 29 health and human health. Forest Garden Observations 9 Pears 30 • Research into the practical Apple Ripening & Storage Times 11 Plums 31 strategies and techniques required for communities and Education 12 Pomegranate 32 individuals to be self reliant, Guided Tours 17 Tea 33 with a focus on regenerative Fruit Tree Catalogue 18 Hedgerow 33 land use, nutrient dense food Apples 19 Forest Garden Support Trees 34 production and processing, appropriate technology and Berries 22 Prune Plums Article 36 community development. Figs 23 Life Members 38 Grapes 24 Seed Collections 39 Loquat 25 Bequests 41 Medlar 25

2 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 3 Solstice Tree Day Membership

th Over the past 30 years Koanga Institute has been instrumental in Sunday June 24 - Online Registration ESSENTIAL collecting and saving over 700 heritage vegetable seed lines and over Koha on the day 300 Northern heritage fruit tree lines and we could not have done it without our members! th We will be open from 11am – 4pm on Sunday June 24 2018 to ur nationally important collections are built on hold. In line with this spirit of inclusiveness and Othe foundation of hundreds of generations of as part of our drive to increase membership we celebrate trees and forest gardens here at Koanga and Kotare Village. growers who have nurtured biodiversity and cultural have introduced an assisted membership so that heritage. We not only collected the plant material people who are financially secure can buy an extra 11:00 Introduction to forest gardening and the seeds, but also the stories and whakapapa membership that will be gifted to someone who of our food plants and the old people who carried cannot afford a membership at this time. 11:30 Tour of Koanga's 5 year old forest garden them to today. Growing out these food plants Membership Drive makes them available to both our members and the Our starting point is around 900 members general public. The beautiful diversity that we see which is just under 1/5th of what we require. We 12:30 Lunch of hearty broth-based soup & sourdough bread in our heritage collection – in the flavours, shapes have changed our membership system so that and colours, is a glimpse of the past varieties of all membership payments are now legal donations. Our 1:00 Tour of Kay and Bob’s forest garden the vegetables. ability to continue to save the seeds depends upon Heirloom collections us maintaining a garden crew and that rests on our 2:00 Pruning demonstration of young trees Keeping the whole collection of these incredibly membership numbers. At 5000 members we can important New Zealand heirlooms alive and maintain a garden crew of four, the three isolation You can pick up your trees any time between 11am – 3pm. available for the people of New Zealand is a gardens, plus the heritage fruit tree collection. complicated and expensive process and we receive If you agree with us that saving New Zealand’s no government funding. We are one of the only heritage food plants is an essential part of building Everyone is welcome, you don’t have to be buying trees! organisations in New Zealand who grow out our a better, regenerative future and if you value the seeds locally (mostly in the sunny Hawke’s Bay), so wealth of experience and knowledge that Koanga they are adapted to NZ soils and climates. These holds and makes available through its website, This will also be an opportunity to stock up on seeds for seeds are then selected for the qualities home publications and courses then the best way that spring etc. See you here, but don’t forget to order your trees gardeners are looking for, like a long cropping you can support us is by becoming a member, by season, great taste, nutrient density and many other encouraging other people to join, and, if you can beforehand, as numbers are very limited. qualities that commercial seeds are not selected afford it, by supporting someone less financially for. In order to be able to maintain a garden crew secure to join via an Assisted Membership. Please capable of continuing to save this collection of feel free to print out this Membership Brochure to organic, heritage seeds and trees so you can enjoy distribute and encourage others to join. them now and in the future we need to significantly increase our membership base and are aiming for The main reason to become a member is to become 5000 members. a part of supporting the kaupapa of Koanga to build a regenerative future but membership also confers Charitable Trust some benefits including being able to purchase As a charitable trust our mission is to maintain our plants and seeds that are only available to members. collection for the benefit of all New Zealanders. We believe that there is strength in diversity and recognise that for Koanga Institute to be strong we need people from all walks of life to feel a connection with our kaupapa and with the collections that we

4 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 5 If you value our work of collecting, saving, P ropagation Workshop trialling and making these trees and If you are keen to learn to propagate your Editorial February 2018 − Kay Baxter information available to all please consider own fruit trees or gain the skills to save the buying your trees from us where possible and heritage trees in your own area then this is the Welcome to our 2018 Fruit Tree Catalogue. We have been collecting our consider becoming a member. Our members workshop for you. Kay and Nursery staff will are critical for this work to continue, and we New Zealand heritage fruit trees for over 30 years, and trialling them be teaching this one day workshop and you get value you all highly. for all that time. We have two collections of these wonderful old trees to go home with a large range of propagation now, one with Gail and John in the Hokianga and one down here at Scionwood, Cuttings & material with this workshop. For more details Kotare Village Wairoa. Rootstock Propagation Material click here. Our way of making more of the heritage fruit Koanga Tree Week he trees we are offering in this catalogue tree collection available to you is through our Saving our heritage trees is a critical part of are some of the best trees from our scionwood cuttings and rootstock propagation T what we do here at Koanga, and just as critical collection. They have all been not only lists. We will post on our website the range of as learning to design ways of planting our food organically grown but regeneratively grown. propagation material available this winter by production systems so they are regenerative, We are growing soil in a measurable way, the end of March. and build healthy soil, provide healthy high which means we are increasing the mineral Website KnowledgeBase Brix food, and create healthy ecological levels, the microbe levels, and the humus systems is also critical. Kotare Village is fast levels in our soil and growing high brix super Finally Gail has done an amazing job of becoming a huge forest garden and we are healthy trees at the same time. upgrading our knowledgebase on the website, building a lot of experience at designing forest making the information we have written about All of our open ground, bare rooted trees have gardens, implementing the designs and then all aspects of heritage seeds, trees and growing white dots painted on the North side of the managing them. This week covers all aspects nutrient dense food production far more easily tree, to make it easy for you to plant your trees of forest gardens from design implementation available to you. Following are some of the facing the same direction. The roots of trees and management to propagation and pruning. articles you might like to check out that may align with the earth’s magnetic poles and they help, support and inspire you on your fruit tree/ grow better if replanted in the same direction forest garden journey. they began in the nursery. See the following Koanga Tree Planting article for our There are many other nurseries today Instructions . Every body ordering trees online selling trees from our collection trials and will receive them as well. recommendations and it is a tribute to the Enjoy our 2018 catalogue and do not hesitate work we have done at Koanga that this is to join our Koanga Regenerate Facebook Live happening. We appreciate it when these Q&A with myself on Mondays at 12:30pm nurseries acknowledge when trees they are with questions. If you can’t join live then post selling have come from the Koanga Collection your questions, they will be answered and you because this honors those who gifted the trees can listen later. to us as well. Guided Tours, Solstice Tree Day, & The Mostly they are being sold by other nurseries Easter Forest Garden Working Bee at the same price we sell them for. Our costs however include the 30 years of collecting and We welcome visitors to our Nursery and Forest trialling and that is an ongoing cost. For every Gardens on our scheduled Guided Tours, our tree that makes it into the catalogue there are Solstice Tree Day, and our first annual Easter many that don’t and it is a lot of work both in Forest Garden Working Bee Campout on (see the Hokianga and here at Kotare. over page for more details).

6 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 7 Koanga Forest Gardens Forest Garden Observations 2017/18 Annual Campout & Working Bee Designing and implementing a forest garden is one thing, as I say in the introduction to a book I wrote some time ago, but managing it is another. This has been a big year for Bob and myself in our home forest garden. Kotare Road Wairoa • Not only have the kereru eaten the tagasaste buds Join us for our inaugural Easter weekend campout and we’ll work together to leaves and flowers, they have also eaten much put some much needed love and development into our forest gardens containing of the seed and growing tips of the next growth our heritage fruit tree collection, and much more. This forest garden covers 2 spurt… so much for growing chicken feed! hectares and is not only the home of our heritage tree collection but also an • Not only have the kereru eaten the tagasaste important research facility, supplier of propagation material to the nursery, a seeds and buds but they have now found the Tree source of food for Koanga students, firewood, weaving materials, poultry, honey Medick seeds and new growth. and much more. It is also potentially a key education facility for many people. • Not only did they do the above but they also ate Education around our heritage food plants and their stories, and also education almost all of the flower buds on the almond tree around designing forest gardens in the image of natural forests, for our students before they came out, leaving us with no almonds local schools and the public. this year, they also ate the leaves and new growth on the prune plums, to such an extent the large Come and join us in creating this space! crops of fruit were badly affected, and on top of Bookings via internet shop essential for catering purposes. that they ate many many kgs of plums from trees around all the forest gardens in the village. Friday arrive in time to set up camp, facilities provided, some accommodation • It is very obvious that bringing the trees back may be available here please enquire. brings the insects then the birds, creating forest All meals provided by Koanga based on our Weston Price principles, at a cost of gardens is recreating what was once a very strong ecology in this land, albeit different species, $10 a meal. Children under 12 free. and birds were the seed eaters, seed savers and Friday evening social time. managers of the kingdom. • Gail says up in the Hokianga where their forest Working bee 9am − 4pm doing the following: garden is, that the kereru don’t really touch these * making biochar * fencing, things because they have so much more native food available. This is a journey, we dream, we * chainsaw work * tree pruning design, we observe, we respond. It is all about * firewood collection * support tree planting observation and response, if we are lucky we will learn things we never imagined and change the * tree releasing * fertilisation of forest garden dance a little. Co-evolution is a dance, a dance of Saturday Evening Q & A session with Koanga Forest Garden Crew, more every living thing in the ecosystem, we all respond and communicate with everything else, we move social time. in relationship to all else. I’m feeling the moves Sunday 9am − 12pm continue working bee, and break camp after lunch. coming in response to the feelings, it all feels very satisfying in the deepest sense.

8 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 9 Apple Ripening & Storage Times • This season we also harvested our first We will be applying more bio char and more significant crop of lespedeza seed, and it has lime and more EFSoil Force. all germinated. That is exciting, I love these • Fine tuning my pruning skills is also an trees, they deserve to be one of our most ongoing challenge, it is abundantly clear important nitrogen fixers in temperate forest that one has to find a very fine balance when gardens in this land. We have a few available pruning. It is an art requiring the utmost for sale this year. It took mine 5 years to sensitivity. Too hard a prune and you get loads flower and set seed. of growth and little fruit, too light and you • A big realisation for me this year has been get loads of fruit but no new growth for fruit watching and noticing how codlin moth affect the following year, and lots of die back and some trees far more than others, or is it some no pruning you often get loads of tasteless cultivars more than others? small fruit, lots of dieback disease and no fruit the following year. I’m training myself to be • Another potentially hugely valuable bit of

looking for the balance at all times to achieve SSSSSSSSS SSSS SSSS information that seems to be coming in is that the best of both outcomes, another dance. the birds eat the fruit of some apples far more avidly than others. I think they eat the fruit SSSSSS SSSSSSSSSS SSSSSS of the trees with thin skins, possibly modern cultivars or more modern cultivars. I’m SSS watching that carefully, we will compile that info for future use when choosing cultivars just as we know some tomatoes resist psyllid far better than others. • I have come to the conclusion that I made a Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec mistake mixing Mediterranean support species through my forest garden and am now in the process of removing them, all good for mulch biochar and firewood and all good learning.

Acacias and cardoons etc go with figs and cellar root i.e. place humid/damp cool in a apples storing for Period —

peaches and grapes and olives etc not with S apples, they don’t connect, it’s an epigenetic thing, no history of communication, or being members of the same whanau. • Finally for me in this list, we have had silver leaf appear for the first time in our forest Uses Dessert/Drying/Storing Cooking/Drying Dessert/Juicing Dessert/Cooking/Juicing/Drying/Storing Dessert/Cooking/Juicing/Drying/Storing Dessert Dessert garden, a result of us not taking enough Dessert/Storing care to maintain the mineral levels while we get everything else established that will do Period for picking apples that job in the long run. One can’t expect to harvest heavy crops of fruit without the trees nutritional needs being taken care of, Variety Berts Bramley Captain KiddEarly StrawberryFreyburg Dessert Dessert Giant GenitonGranny SmithGravenstein Dessert/Cooking/Juicing/Drying/Storing Hayward Wright Dessert/Cooking/Juicing/Drying/Storing Koanga Red Dessert/Juicing Dessert Lord NelsonMatakana Russet Dessert/Juicing Mayflower Dessert/Drying/Storing Cooking/Juicing Northern SpyPeasgood Nonsuch Short Storage Red Delicious Dessert/Cooking/Juicing/Drying/Storing Red Spy Early Vaile Dessert Winesap Zimmerman Dessert/Short Storage especially in our sandy pumice based soils. Ahipara

10 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 11 gardens and the practical experience animals, with simple technology, Education you will gain by working in our in preparation for inclusion in your processing facilities. family’s diet with a particular focus on Here at the Koanga Institute we are learning to live simply and in a regenerative way using the whole animal. in Aotearoa. We are very aware of how important food is to eco-systems, people, Workshop Outline Includes: Major Butchery Topics Covered: cultures, communities and ultimately our health. The education we provide is our way • History of Seeds of actively accumulating and sharing the knowledge and skills that we are sharing. • Why save seeds • Outlining issues of hygiene, diseases, mpower yourself with the Zealand through education • Which are the best seeds for us to and regulations Epractical skills to turn • Empowering home be saving • Understanding tools to use, your dreams of self-resilience gardeners to develop efficient • Where do we find them maintenance and sharpening into your reality. We use the gardening skills, build • Planning gardens for seed saving • General principles of killing Permaculture design process top-soil and improve their • How to grow high quality seeds • Killing, skinning and dressing sheep to design and teach solutions health through enjoying • Admin systems for small scale and goats for all aspects of our lives and their own quality, nutrient environment. Our guided tours, dense produce. seed saving • Killing and dressing a pig workshops, permaculture All food served on our courses is: • Equipment and storage • Killing, plucking and dressing poultry design courses, internships and • Locally sourced • Cleaning and processing seed • Maximising use of offal apprenticeships are all great • Organic • Packing seed • Cutting and preparing meat ways to create your lifestyle or • Unrefined career path in a regenerative way. • Nutrient dense Butchery and Meat Processing Meat Processing Topics Covered: We’re Committed To: • Traditional May 27th to June 1st 2018 • Salting • Inspiring and supporting • Prepared following Weston regenerative living in New A. Price principles Early Bird $828, Full price $920 • Smoking Tutors: Taiamai Corker • Bacon For detailed information on all available workshops please see our website here • Sausages Taiamai is a butcher and farmer who • Salami Koanga Seed Week longevity and with the potential for specifically loves his Wiltshire Horn • Pate February 25th – March 2nd 2018 optimal nutrition. Sheep, Large Black Pigs, his poultry and his Dexter cows, and loves to share his Full price $920 Whether you are planning to set up a seed bank for a larger community or passion and skill at butchering and meat Tutors: Kay Baxter, Michelle May, processing in a way that makes it totally Michele Griffiths would like to address food security for your immediate family, here you will accessible for all. Learn everything you need to know find the skills and resources required. This is a practical workshop to learn to set up your own family, bioregional Processes taught are very low tech and home butchering skills for small or national seed bank – Your future could be adapted to suit any situation, animals: poultry, goats, pigs and sheep. food security! including rural villages without This is a basic course to support you This seed week will give you the skills electricity or technology. in this. and understanding to grow and save A critical part of this week is the The purpose of this workshop is to your own seeds and to ensure that the experience you will gain at planning demonstrate respectful, effective seeds you save will be high quality for seed gardens or food and seed and efficient ways to kill and process

12 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 13 P ropagation Workshop • Many types of seeds including heritage design your own diet so that it meets Koanga Food Security Week July 14th 2018 peaches and nectarines, nuts and with the levels of nutrition required to September 23rd – 28th 2018 Early Bird $261, Full price $290 forest garden support species. maintain your health, using the foods of Early Bird $828, Full price $920 • Many types of cuttings including your choice. Tutors: Kay Baxter and nursery team This Koanga Education Bundle grapes, figs and berries. You will learn to plan, prepare, cook and The course fee includes $140 for • Rootstocks and rootstock plant, provides students with the Biointensive eat a complete nutrient dense diet, and Gardening and Growing Nutrient Dense propagation materials. material including apple rootstocks, you will learn the following techniques: This workshop is a mix of theory pear rootstocks and stone Food workshops delivered back to back. and practice. You will learn all of the fruit rootstocks. • Making broth Tutor: Kay Baxter techniques necessary to propagate all of • Plus rooted suckers and plants of • Using raw milk. Kefir, kefir cheese, Learn why BioIntensive Gardening is your own fruit and nut trees, and to go other things. feta cheese, yoghurt, whey etc the most efficient system we know of about saving the heritage fruit trees in This plant material is worth well • How to make lard and use traditional and how using this system you can grow your own family whanau or bioregional over $250 per person and some of it fats and oils high quality food in a super efficient way heritage orchards. As we learn each unavailable elsewhere. We add it to this • Correctly prepare grains seeds and whilst also growing soil. thing you will then do it. workshop for $140 per person. nuts. Making bread cakes etc Kay will give you an understanding of Kay has been running an organic You will also go home with much • Making Lacto ferments what nutrient dense food is, and how heritage fruit tree nursery for over 30 printed material covering things you • Making fermented drinks and vinegars to test your food, using a refractometer, years now and learned much of what have learned to make it easier when you Three days focus on Weston Price cooking to see how nutrient dense it is. You will she knows from elderly Tree Crops get home. and preparing nutrient dense food. learn how our food communicates with men in the 1980’s, and lots of personal Morning and afternoon tea provided. During the final two days we will our bodies, and how the strength and experience. This workshop has been introduce you to the Gut and clarity of that communication largely attended by many people from all over Reclaim Your Health Week Psychology Diet (GAPS) and you will determines our health today and for our NZ over many years now and it has been (Prepare & Cook Nutrient Dense Food) learn to prepare and eat GAPS food (a la children and grandchildren tomorrow. one of the main drivers in this land for September 16th – 21st 2018 Dr Natasha Campbell McBride). You will then learn some key principles empowering people to save their own behind growing nutrient dense food. Early Bird $828, Full price $920 The emphasis here is hands on but heritage trees and around the country. plenty of theory and discussion as well. How to use that understanding and Tutor: Kay Baxter and Shaked From We will cover growing plants by seed Kay and Shaked are teachers who live information to design your best way to by cuttings, by grafting/budding etc. This course will look at the essential what they teach here at Kotare Village. grow nutrient dense food. We will teach and we’ll learn about rootstocks and relationship between the quality of our They have a lot of experience here with you a range methods from brought scion wood. All the time talking about diets and its reflection in our overall both eating Weston A Price and GAPS fertiliser to doing it all yourself via the why we do things in different ways for health, and the health of our children, diets. This could easily be the week of compost heap, and the biochar burner different plants. and grandchildren. You’ll learn the your life that you take to reclaim your and more… The cost of this workshop includes you principles of a traditional diet, as health and get you back on a track that Kay will bring you state of the art best taking home plant material to begin a documented by Weston A Price, and feels good. practice for both Biointensive Gardening home orchard or propagation facility or how to put that into practice in our and Growing Nutrient Dense Food. both and includes: world today. You will learn how to Kay is an internationally recognized

14 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 15 teacher in these fields and this week is gardens, implementing the designs and an opportunity to get the theory and then managing them. This week covers hands on practice so that you will return all aspects of forest gardens from design home with enough confidence to begin implementation and management your own journey of growing nutrient to pruning. dense food effectively, efficiently, using Details are being finalised and more state of the art best practice methods. information will be found here You will be inspired to new heights when available. with these teachers. Every body seriously growing food should do Food Internships & Apprenticeships Security Week! If you are interested in doing an Internship or an Apprenticeship with us Koanga Tree Week the required prerequisite is that you have September 30th – October 5th 2018. done either a PDC, and or a week block of your specific field of interest with Saving our heritage trees is a critical part us, as seen above. Please contact us if of what we do here at Koanga, and just you are interested and we’ll discuss the as critical as learning to design ways of possibilities with you. planting our food production systems so they are regenerative, and build healthy Guided Tours soil, provide healthy high Brix food, and create healthy ecological systems is also Members $20, Non-Members $25 critical. Kotare Village is fast becoming Book Online a huge forest garden and we are building Sunday March 3rd 2018 a lot of experience at designing forest Afternoon tea provided.

16 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 17 Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Please note: All Fruit Tree orders will be taken online or via phone if you do not have internet access. www.koanga.org.nz/shop or (06) 838 6269.

his is a very special collection of NZ heritage plant material, gifted to us by the R ootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description gardeners of this land. We believe every tree in this catalogue to be worthy of a M9/M26 2m 3.14 sqm Irrigation, mulch, staking, Produces a dwarf tree. Can be T Dwarf free draining soils. espaliered, cordoned or grown as a special place in our lives today, for one reason or another. All trees in this catalogue have staked tree. been organically grown by hand in a way that regenerates the land they were grown in. MM 106 4m 12.56 sqm Free draining soils. Developed for free draining lighter We’ll send the planting instructions with your trees, so you can also plant them well, soils. A semi dwarfing tree, if well ensuring strong healthy growth and maximum nutrient dense fruit production. pruned can be kept to 2.5m high and 3m wide. An excellent choice for home These trees have been grown in Open Ground situation and marked with a white dot on gardens if you have the right soil the North side of the trunk, so that you too can plant these trees in the same alignment. 793 4-8m 30 sqm Free draining soils. Large tree. Has been bred from Northern Spy and does well on Trees grow their main roots along the earth's magnetic field and they grow far better if heavy soils. they are planted in that same alignment as they were in the nursery. The white dots allow Northern 4-6m 30 sqm This is the old rootstock Tree Size: It is possible to keep trees on you to do that. Spy that does best on heavy this rootstock to 3m if you are a very clays. It can handle heavy skilled pruner. They can grow to 6m, Many of the trees offered here are from our Northern Bioregional collection. These trees wet soils as well. but not too difficult to keep them to 4-5. have naturalised in the North where the winters are warm, and they have been through a 150 year process of natural and human selection in that climate. The significance of this is that they fruit well in warm winters. Cultivars with the same name grown south Apples of the Bombay Hills and taken north, do not. That is the reason Kay began saving these old trees. One of the good things about having this collection is that you can now buy trees that will fruit well in Northland, but we also now know they do very well when taken south again. Martin Crawford of Forest Garden fame in England is recommending that we should all be planting our orchards these days with fruit trees that came from 2 climate zones north of where we are, so that they will fruit in the future in warmer winters! Apples Apples Apples Bert’s apple on Northern Spy Bramley on MM106, 793 and Brown's Apple on Northern Spy Rootstock $36 Northern Spy Rootstocks $36 Rootstock $36 n the stone fruit section of our catalogue you will notice we now offer more and Medium size, round apple with Well known in England as the best Early 20th century, traditional, well Imore cultivars as seedlings. We are doing this because we believe them to be a yellowish russety skin with a red cooking apples. Large, irregular, known English cider apple. Good superior way to grow our genetically stable heritage varieties. blush. Dessert apple with excellent ugly even in shape, light green skin, disease resistance and produces a flavour and old fashioned firm flesh. outstanding flavour and texture for sharp flavour. Ripe late in the season. Modern peaches do not grow true in the same way, and so we trial all cultivars before From Bert Davies collection planted cooking apple, not a dessert apple. in 1917 in his old pear orchard, one of offering them to you. 2 apples in the pear orchard (the other The trees are stronger and more disease resistant, but grow in size to be somewhere was Northern Spy). in between the smaller Marianna rootstock and the larger peach rootstock. We tip the central leaders in the nursery to produce a low branched tree most suitable for home gardeners.

18 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 19 Apples Apples Apples Apples Apples Apples Captain Kidd on MM106, 793 and Freyberg on MM106 and 793 Giant Geniton on M9, MM106 and Matakana Golden Russet on M9, Mayflower on M9 rootstock $36 Slack Ma Girdle on Northern Spy Northern Spy Rootstocks $36 rootstocks $36 Northern Spy rootstocks $36 MM106 and 793 Rootstocks $36 Medium-large, flat, green skin, Rootstock $36 Bright red, streaky, white flesh, Large, pale green skin which turns Green skin, similar to Granny Smith, Golden russet skin with red blush turning yellow when ripe, gold russet Slack ma Girdle are medium size, flat, large, fine excellent flavour, sweet, pale honey yellow when ripe, crisp, but reddish striping when ripe, sweet/ on sunny side, round, flattish, yellow on top, yellow flesh; excellent old- yellow green with bright red patches, juicy, medium vigour, reliable juicy and very sweet flesh, excellent tart crunchy dessert apple from flesh, very rich aromatic flavour, fashioned full flavour, crisp, heavy sweet flesh, late ripening, for cider cropper, healthy, disease resistant. texture and flavour, heavy cropper. April on and great cooking, reliable sweet, soft, excellent with cheese. reliable bearer, small tree. Selected making. Cider apple also eating apple. Bred in NZ, from Tom & Robyn Ripe late February to late March. heavy cropper. This is an outstanding Ripe February, March but store well from thousands of seedlings in the This is sweet cider apple rich and full Morrison Kenilworth Orchards, 1989, Bred by JH Kidd, Greytown, Golden apple that came to this land with the and taste better with keeping. Golden Hokianga by missionaries Knaggs/ bodied cropping late Warkworth. Delicious/Cox’s Orange cross, in Dalmatian Gumdiggers. From Phil Russets were very common in all of Fairburn 1840's, named after boat he collection since 1986. Evans in Kohukohu, Hokianga, 1987; the old orchards. They are precocious arrived in; from Jim Cox, Tangiteroria, also from Cloon Eavin, Pahi; one of bearers, reliable heavy croppers and 1980's. the very best apples in the North. are very special apples. From the Matakana area and very probably from the original Mathew Bros nursery in the area.

Apples Apples Apples Apples Hayward Wright on M9 and 793 Koanga Red on M9, MM106, 793 and Lady Finger on M9 Rootstock $36 Vaile Early on M9 $36 rootstocks $36 Northern Spy Rootstocks $36 Round, small-medium, bright red Small-medium, conical, yellow greasy Bright red/golden russety skin, red Large, elongated shape, bright black streaky skin, golden russet when ripe; skin with red streaks; juicy sweet, sub- coloured flesh, excellent texture and streaky red, possibly seedling of red very sweet, full of flavour, used as a acid, reliable cropper, medium vigour, flavour, juicy, sweet, heavy reliable delicious, incredibly full flavoured, cider apple but every bit as good as a takes some years to ripen early. From dessert apple. Ripe mid January- similar to red Delicious but better mid season desert apple. Ripe February. Lionel Quaife (well known orchardist February. From George McKinney, we think. From unknown member in Paparoa), 1987. Auckland, 1997; one of Hayward around 1995, originated from a Apples Wright's (of kiwi fruit fame) favourite seedling wild tree. Worcester Pearmain on M9, MM106 and Northern Spy Rootstocks $36 early selections. Large, round green skinned fruit, maroon blush on sunny side when fully ripe. Heavy reliable cropper with outstanding health. Fluffy when cooked, with a great flavour. In the Koanga Collection since 1987, origin unknown. Ripens mid/late season.

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berries Marionberry OG $22 An outstanding trailing vine which berries berries berries is a cross between blackberries and Currant Black $22 Currant Seddon Early $22 Currant Giant Red Ruby $22 raspberries. A large shiney, glossy Classic black currants high in flavour From the Henry Harrington From the Henry Harrington black berry with a delicious complex and nutrition, fruiting in Hawkes Southland collection, named because Southland collection. Henry collected but sweet flavour. It is a vigorous vine berries berries Bay Allow 1m. From the Henry it ripens earlier than others. most of his berries along the railway sending up a few canes each year Raspberry Yellow $12 Raspberry Lake (Red) $12 Harrington Southland collection, lines travelled by the early settlers which can grow 5m long. They need which Henry collated from plants and gold miners. This is the largest trellising each year and the old canes Outstanding raspberry, was well Classic red raspberries that sucker growing wild along railway lines of our red currants ripening in mid cut out. known all over New Zealand 100 years strongly like the yellow one. Best in along the tracks near Ohai, an old December. ago. Average size, pale yellow fruit, a largish Food Forest situation where coal mining area and a trail the old one of the best eating raspberries, they can form a raspberry patch. From goldminers used. Ripe December. with a strong Autumn crop following Louise Shaw 2006, originally from the a Summer crop. 1.5m, ripe December. central north Island lakes area. 1.5m, Ex Canterbury/ Lower Hutt, ripe December and again February. NZ Heirloom. Figs f igs Adriatic $22 Large, round, green skin, dark red very sweet pulp, huge reliable crops, not suitable for areas with short summers. The figs were eaten fresh but also dried in a paste form and used as sweetening for all baking by many. Allow 4-8m (depends on pruning). Ex Kaipara, berries berries berries NZ Heirloom. Gooseberry Henry’s Large Black Gooseberry Levin Early $22 Henry’s Worcesterberry $22 Red $22 This is a red/black gooseberry when This Worcesterberry came from These are a large black red fruit, very ripe, wonderful flavour ripening Henry Harrington’s grandparents sweet, sub acid with a strong aromatic slightly earlier than Large Black, from (de Malmanche family), who were aftertaste. Outstanding cultivar, ripe Wendy Evans collection in the lower early French settlers near Akaroa. It December. Allow 1m. From the Henry North Island. is a cross between a gooseberry and a Harrington Southland collection, black currant, and grows like a vine, which Henry collated from plants so needs espaliering against a wall, a growing wild along railway lines along south wall is great. If you espalier them the tracks near Ohai. like an apple you can then hang bird netting over the vine when the black sweet berries are ripe, the berries sit for weeks once ripe if covered. Excellent flavour. Ripe February will hang on bush if shady until late March.

22 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 23 Loquat loquat Koanga $8 Loquats are attractive evergreen trees with large leaves. It is one of the few sub-tropical fruit species within the Rosaceae family. Our loquat is a large thick walled sweet loquat, fully f igs figs f igs grapes ripe early December. Loquat fruits Black $22 Hyndemans $22 Pouto Sugar $22 Wairarapa pink $22 can be eaten fresh off the tree or can Small dark skinned, pink-fleshed fig, Small figs with a purply skin and Very sweet fig, hence its name. Early, Small oval pink skinned grape with be cooked. creamy texture, very sweet skin. An silky pink centre, two crops if you small, pear shaped, red brown colour outstanding flavour. Found in an early fig, best for marginal areas that don’t prune it the first around Xmas, on one end with pale flesh. Allow 4-8m old vineyard, when pruning grapes. may experience cooler summer, ripens the next in March/April. Very good (depends on pruning). This fig was Owner had kept these outstanding old March. Allow 4-8m (depends on for drying. Allow 4-8m (Depends on used in the north as a sweetener, i.e dessert grapes because of their quality pruning). Ex Auckland, NZ Heirloom. pruning). Ex Kaipara, Hyndmans was dried/ bottled and then added to amongst modern wine grapes. original farm, Kaiwaka. other dishes. Was given to Koanga by Logan Forrest of Pouto.

Grapes Medlar medlar Medlar on Quince BA29 rootstock $36 Mespilus germanica, known as the medlar or common medlar, is a large shrub or small tree, and the name of the fruit of this tree. The fruit has been cultivated since Roman times, and is unusual in being available in Winter, and in being eaten when bletted. The grapes grapes grapes fruit is picked in Autumn and laid on Bishop Pompallier $22 Black Dalmatian $22 Niagra $22 shelves not touching each other and left until the flesh turns from white Large black grape, sweet with full Came to us from an old Dalmatian Excellent choice for the organic home to brown and is no longer astringent. flavour, excellent as dessert grape. orchard in Kohukohu. Outstanding gardener. Very early white dessert Joe Polaischer talked a lot about his Disease resistant, ripe in March. disease resistance and delicious strong grape, sweet with a lovely mild flavour. grandmother often making medlar From Bishop Pompallier’s original flavour. Very dark skin, musky flavour Ripens early March. Easy to grow with bread in Austria. The flowers are early orchard plantings, Kerikeri, and lots of tannin. Good as a dessert reliable heavy crops. NZ Heirloom, in stunning large and white. Northland. and wine grape. Ripe in late March. our collection since 1985. Ex Kohukohu, very old Dalmatian orchard, NZ Heirloom.

24 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 25 nuts Walnut Wilson’s Wonder 90cm + Nectarines strong seedling $30 Large nut, easy to crack and shell by hand, suitable for most climates around NZ. These are from an old tree outside Wairoa.

nectarines nectarines net c arines Goldmine Seedling $28 Nuhaka Gold Seedling $28 Pouto Gold Seedling $28 Medium size, mid season, white Goldmine type but larger, and more Sweet, juicy, old fashioned, small, gold fleshed nectarine with red over intense flavour. Super sweet fruit with fleshed fruit with red on yellow skin green skin, dessert quality with a excellent flavour, strong red blush and when ripe. Allow 5-8m. From McLeod sweet flavour. Ripe in February. russeting on skin with a freestone, and family homestead, Pouto, gifted by An outstanding old variety from is ripe February. Logan Forrest, 2000. Olives the Kaipara.

Nuts olives olives Dual Purpose $18 Pouto Pickling $18 The dual purpose olive is also from Super large greek type pickling olive. these ancient lines of olives and was From Pouto by the beach road in an selected by Logan Forest as a good area with olive trees carbon dated in pickling and oil cultivar. This tree was 1970 to be 200 years old. Allow 6-8m. a seedling Kay saw before DOC cut it down and was ancient and stunningly beautiful hanging way out over the cliffs and beach at Pouto. nuts nuts nuts Almond Mona Vale Seedling $18 Hazelnut Mixed 2 year old Seedling $12 Pecan Seedling $25 A hard shelled, excellent quality nut, Mixed from Butler (a classic cultivar Pecan nuts have a rich buttery flavour olives large tree and heavy cropper. For most known as being reliable and easy to and can be eaten fresh or used in Old Tree Oil $18 of us hard shelled almonds are far husk) and Alexandra (a very strong cooking (traditionally in sweet more reliable than thin shelled ones as cultivar with mixed nut quality, great desserts). Pecans fruit from seed These olives are grown from the 200 year old Pouto tree that was carbon dated when insect pests can’t get in there. Almond for a fruiting hedge). Excellent for around 6-10 years but require several DOC tried to cut it down in the 1970s and Logan Forrest, who knew it was very old, seedlings form quite large trees. They hedgerows shelter and nut groves. trees for pollination to be effective ... prevented them. The stories in the North say that these olives around Pouto (they are usually the earliest to blossom and Require moisture to grow well. best out in the paddock! Pecans need now grow wild there) came to the East Cape and Northland with the Spanish and are very beautiful. hot summers and a very sheltered spot Portuguese who frequented these places over 200 years ago. There is much evidence as well because their wood is brittle. of this in Northland where there are Spanish helmets in caves along the coast and They grow to be very large trees like many stories of their visits, also whakapapa back to these people, as well as on the walnuts and require similar free East Coast around Gisborne with some families holding whakapapa back to these draining soil. Like walnuts they also travellers. This tree has also been tested for its qualities and is a great oil olive, and kill other plants growing under them. the J5 series of olives in this land go back to this tree. It is also a good pickling olive although not as big as the greek pickling type tree we also hold in our collection from Pouto.

26 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 27 Peaches peahs c e Batley Seedling $28 Medium, honey coloured skin with red blush on top, very firm texture, excellent flavour, sweet. Ex seedling tree from Batley in Kaipara. Ripe March / early April peaches peahs c e peahs c e peaches Keri Gold Seedling $28 Mamie Ross on Marianna $36 River Peach on Marianna $36 Batley Peach on Marianna $36 Fairly large peach. The skin is a golden We are excited to be able to make this River Peaches are the ones that set Medium, honey coloured skin with colour and when fully ripe has a red peach available again which came Kay off on this whole journey, they red blush on top, very firm texture, blush. Firm flesh, sweet and juicy with from Mavis Smith’s Totara House are Ex Kaipara Harbour and are NZ excellent flavour, sweet. Ex seedling a great flavour. Free stone with a slight collection in Matakohe. Mamie Heirloom. They are disease resistant, tree from Batley in Kaipara. Ripe red blush around the centre. Ripe Ross peaches were listed in the early easy to grow and grow true to seed. March / early April late January. nursery catalogues in NZ in the 1800s. They are prolific croppers of sweet Large juicy peach with white flesh. medium sized, green skin with a red Pale white / green skin with red blush blush, white fleshed, free stone fruit. when ripe. Excellent dessert peach Ripen late January. Allow 5-8m. with lovely sweet flavour. Outstanding peaches unlike anything available commercially today. Ripe January.

peahs c e peaches peaches Arapahoe Red Leaf Seedling $28 Christina Seedling $28 Green’s Special Seedling $28 Peacherines Red skin, golden flesh and freestone White flesh, red around stone, green Large, freestone, yellow fleshed peach peah c erine with red streaks around the stone. skin, red blush when ripe, similar with a red tinge when ripe. Peacherine Robertson’s on Marianna $36 Outstanding flavour, excellent texture to River Peach but firmer, sweeter. Given by Maureen Green. Her brother Reliable cropper, medium size yellow and is very juicy. Red leaves on the Our Christina peach is really a local in law, David Green, said “My father, peacherine with a furry skin, buttery tree. Allow 5-8m. Northland variation of the River Fred Green, bought two Golden texture and lots of flavour, very sweet, Given to Koanga by a woman peach that is slightly sweeter and later Beauty and two Campbell Seedlings clingstone, ripe late Feb to early near Ruawai, originally from fruiting. It came into our collection from the nursery of Woodyear Smith March, great bottling. elderly Dalmatian gardener. Ripe from an avid fruit tree collector by the at Matakana in 1940. Both freestone late February. name of Mr Phil Hodges, a well known and ripe in early february. A seedling Paparoa character with a very special grew from one of these which was orchard himself. freestone and ripe late march. We called it Green's Seedling”

R ootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description Marianna | Plum 3-6m 12 sqm Heavier, wet soils, Root Stock essential. Peach Root Stock 5-8m 30 sqm Drier, bony soils, These plants are seedling grown - they exposed. are not grafted, we consider these trees to be stronger and healthier in general, as well as growing them is a simpler process - and so they are cheaper.

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pears pears pears plums plums plums Bert’s Bon Chretien on Quince BA29 Keifir on Quince BA29 rootstock $36 Seckles on Quince BA29 rootstock and Burbank on marianna rootstock $36 Hamata prune on peach rootstock $36 Dan’s Early on marianna rootstock $36 rootstock $36 Large, yellow, russety skin with crisp, Quince C rootstock $36 Large, red/yellow skin, yellow meaty Very rare round shaped prune plum Beautiful early plum. Medium sized An outstanding selection of William sweet, juicy, firm flesh, excellent Pollinator of all other pears that need flesh, excellent flavour, compact from the Hamata whanau orchard in with pale pinky red flesh, red skin, and Bon Chretien. Superior flavour, good keeper. Ex Wellsford, Bert Davies. pollinators. Excellent small sweet fruit tree, clingstone. Te Whanau A Apanui, Whitianga Bay fantastic flavour. Forms a large tree. size, ripe early Feb. Good dessert Pollinator: Seckles, ripens late March. - the old ‘honey’ pear of Bohemia. Ripe Burbank plums came into the Kaipara near where we lived for 3 years. It is Ripe December. and bottling. Bert had many Bon end of Feb through March. Self-fertile, harbour, according to Logan Forrest similar to most prunes, yellow very Chretiens, this one grew and tasted small tree, if you only have room for with the Dalmatian gumdiggers. They sweet mealy flesh, freestone with black different. From Bert Davies, Wellsford. one pear, this is it! The bees love it too. were in all of the very old orchards, skins white bloom when ripe that is From Bert Davies, Wellsford. everybody had one! Ripe February. easily dried like a ‘prune’. Ripe here second week of February this year , an pears unusual year for ripening times. Triumph de Vienna on Quince BA29 rootstock and Quince C rootstock $36 Excellent dessert pear. Outstanding flavour, large and juicy. Ripe March, after Bon Chretien. One of the very best pears for flavour and texture, large brown russet. From Bert Davies, Wellsford. This was Bert’s favourite pear (he made pear sandwiches with this one). plums plums plums Green Gage seedling $28 Italian prune on peach rootstock $36 Koanga Prune on peach rootstock $36 Naturalized to fruit well also in warm Dark purple/black skin, egg shape, Elongated egg shape, excellent high winters. Exceptional flavour, semi yellow flesh, freestone, fruits well flavour, sweet freestone, yellow flesh, free stone. in North. From DSIR collection, reddish/yellowish /purplish skin, last From Robyn and Tom Morrison from Havelock North, years ago. Well fruit drying on tree mid march. Heavy Kenilworth Orchards at Warkworth. known cultivar. Fruits March. croppers, excellent fruit for drying. We lost the whakapapa of this prune but it is a really good one and have called it Koanga for now.

R ootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Description Peach 4-6m 16 sqm Drier, bony soils rootstock preferred Marianna / 3-6m 12 sqm Heavier wet soils Plum rootstock essential R ootstock Diameter Canopy Size Preferences Seedlings 4-6m 16 sqm Heavier wet soils We are beginning to make seedlings available of essential old tried and true cultivars. We believe seedlings Quince BA29 | Semi Dwarf 2-4m 7 sqm Heavier, wet soils essential. to hold the potential to be stronger and healthier Quince C | Dwarf 2m 3.14 sqm Heavier, wet soils essential. trees as well as cheaper to produce and buy.

30 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 31 Tea tea Camellia Sinensis root trainer 10cm $8 This is the tea bush. No matter what kind of tea we drink, whether it is black tea, green tea or kukicha, it all comes from this bush. Grow your own plums plums plums and learn to process it to make the Scarletina on marianna rootstock $36 Sugar prune on peach rootstock $36 Tamaki Special on marianna tea you prefer. An evergreen shrub rootstock $36 of height from 1.2 to 1.8 m. Native Red skin and flesh, outstanding flavour This is a classic prune plum with an to South East Asia and bears white and colour. Great for dessert, jam and exceptionally high sugar content. Ripe Outstanding plum, one of the best fragrant flowers. Grows in full sun or bottling. An ex commercial Australian February/March. from the collection of Dan Hansen shade and is pretty adaptable to almost plum it came to us from Matakohe. of Wilderland fame. Large, dark red all well-drained soil types, except Self fertile. Ripens mid January. meaty plum which is full of flavour those that are water-logged. and very sweet, great for dessert and bottling. Vigorous growing tree. Ripens in late December / early January. Pollinator- Duff’s Early Jewel, and others. This plum was gifted to our collection by the late Dan Hansen of Wilderland. Dan was an avid fruit tree collector and he found this seedling growing on an Auckland roadside. Pomegranate Hedgerow pomegranate Pomegranate root trainer 30cm $10 Small deciduous tree to 3m maximum. Requires a hot full sun position. Mulch to prevent weed competition in early years. Produces highly renowned fruit. The quality depends on heat when ripening.

h edgerow hedgerow hedgerow Abelia grandiflora root trainer Honey suckle root trainer 30cm $8 Red Barked Dogwood root trainer $8 30cm $8 Enjoys moist, wet places, can be This is an outstanding red barked A fast growing bush with glossy green chopped and dropped or trimmed shrub that is deciduous so stands foliage. Has fragrant tubular flowers as a hedge. Produces scented flowers out with bright red bark all winter. that are white tinged with pink. in spring before leaf growth. Great It is an excellent weaving material Wonderful bee plant in late summer. hedgerow bush, we have roses growing rivalling willow, and great mixed Excellent hedging plant. Soft stems through ours. with basket willow in a basket. Good that are easy to trim into a hedge. in a hedgerow or forest garden. If coppiced to the ground grows long red weaving rods, otherwise becomes a bushy shrub.

32 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 33 support trees Honey Locust root trainer 40cm $8 Forest Garden Support Trees Nitrogen fixer. Large spreading tree to 15m, creating amazing shade for stock and prodigious grass growth in the filtered light semi-shade underneath the spreading branches, great trees in pasture and for swings.

support trees support trees support trees Tree Lupin Root Trainer 30cm Price $6 Amur Maakia root trainer $8 Tagasaste root trainer 50cm $6 Nitrogen fixer, low shrub, 1.5m, Nitrogen fixer, grows to 6-7m tall, Nitrogen fixer, fast growing tree to covering the ground well, fast multiple long branchless thin trunks 4m (2-3m if coppiced) needing free growing perennial mostly although that can be coppiced to provide draining soil, can be coppiced (chop it sometimes dies after flowering, ground durable posts, don't take up and drop) twice a year in NZ, excellent self seeds and self protects young any canopy space in forest garden bee forage in winter early Spring, seedling coming up underneath it, because their leaves are light and airy, chicken forage seeds and leaves, shade, yellow flowers all summer, seeds particularly valuable in areas with very firewood, mulch and biochar. edible by poultry, stunning yellow in high water tables, loved by a myriad of forest garden Spring to Autumn Great insects including bees. for biomass/carbon production in forest garden.

support trees support trees support trees Tree Medick root trainer 40cm $8 Snail Vine root trainer 40cm $8 Tipuana Tipu root trainer 40cm $12 Nitrogen fixer, roundish shrub to 3m, This is a long lived perennial vine that Nitrogen fixer to 15m. One of Geoff covered in fragrant yellow blossom requires winter warmth. Light frosts Lawtons top legumes for subtropical each Spring, followed by pods full of OK, can grow up anything. Nitrogen forest gardens. It is sometimes called seeds loved by chickens, fairly hardy fixer and has beautiful heavily the Yellow Jacaranda because in form but we have no experience yet with scented flowers. it is very similar, open light feathery them in heavy clay, excellent forest shade, with a spreading top and super garden support species. strong flowering of bright yellow flowers in Summer. The trees become canopy if left and they can also be managed in a chop and drop fashion, like Tagasaste to create mulch , and speeding up carbon sequestration etc

34 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 35 It was the superfood of its day; easily stored around the world, to every continent, where and packed with energy, fibre, vitamins and they were appreciated by sailors for their flavour Prune Plums minerals, the Agen plum was immensely and nutrients. They even cooked with them, popular from the 17th century to the end of mixing the prunes with a batter made from We’ve fallen in love with prunes here! We now have three distinct the 19th. Agen prunes were a staple on board flour and eggs and creating the famous Breton cultivars fruiting and another 4 or 5 still getting there. They are easy to Navy sailing ships, and later on the merchant far aux pruneaux. grow, have the sweetest fruit of all and are freestone, sweet right to the steamboats. These stocks of prunes were taken inside, and are easy to dry. They are easy to dry because of the high dry mater content of the flesh, it is firm but very sweet, and because they are freestone. The trees also have a beautiful boulevard shape, not going out very wide like the Japanese plums we are used to. ur latest to fruit here is the Hamata Prune, inspired to graft the new Damas plums from Oa prune that was gifted to us from a very Syria onto the local varieties. This was the birth old orchard where the plant material potentially of a new variety of plum, known as the Prune came from the old ship captains of the early d'Ente (from the Old French 'enter', meaning 19thC. The following history of the prune is off to graft). the internet: This new variety of fine-skinned, mauve-blue Carried from China along the Silk Road, plum plums with a white bloom (the fine, slightly trees flourished all over the Mediterranean powdery and waxy layer) was well adapted to basin under the aegis of the Greeks and the soil and climate of the south-west, and to Romans. The fruits were dried in the sun or the local drying conditions. The new type of in bakers' ovens, depending on the region, prune, made from these plums, was large and transforming them into prunes. Prunes are delicately flavoured and scented. The future highly nutritious dried fruits with a very long Agen prune was born! And thanks to the port shelf life, making them ideal sustenance during on the Garonne river, Agen soon became the times of poor harvests or for long sea or land central hub for prune exports. These prunes journeys. Prunes have been appreciated for were loaded onto the 'gabarres', little towed thousands of years due to their nutritional, or wind-powered vessels which transported dietary and medical properties, and were their merchandise to Bordeaux where they prescribed by Greek, Roman and Arab doctors. could be taken aboard larger, sea-faring ships. The Romans planted the first varieties of plum And as the fruit was stamped with the name in Gaul, in the Narbonnaise province which of its port of origin, they became known as stretched all the way to modern-day Quercy, 'Pruneaux d'Agen'. near Agen. These varieties included the Saint The winter of 1709 was harsh, with freezing Antonin, also known as the Maurine. This little temperatures destroying a great many plum blue plum is certainly the oldest variety and the trees. This pushed plum growers further west, most widely cultivated, producing a very dark into the Villeneuvois and Agenais regions where and modestly sized prune. the climate was milder. Additionally, the clay It was only in the 12th century that, upon their and limestone soil of the Guyenne and Gascogne return from the 3rd Crusade, the Benedictine made this part of the south-west, along the monks of the Abbaye de Clairac in the Lot valleys and banks of the Garonne and Lot rivers, Valley (between Agen and Villeneuve) were the perfect place to produce Agen prunes.

36 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 37 Life Members Seed Collections These seed collections have been developed to encourage children and gardeners of all ages to be inspired to Alison Nuttall Guillermo Aldao-Humble Nick Blennerhassett garden. Presented in an envelope printed with artwork by Franzi Corker, these collections make wonderful Alison Wilson Gwenda Costello Noeline Gannaway gifts. They include written material to help you get the most from each collection, and offer a chance to Angela Emery Heike Koester Pam and Brett Shand grow some of New Zealand’s most rare heritage seeds, from the Koanga Institute collection. Anne MacLennan Helen Boyd-Alspach Pat Knuckey Annette Nixon Inge Diks Pauline Macdonald Banyan Ingrid Losch Peter Alexander Barbara Baragwanath Jan Rata Phoenix Organics Barbara Chapple Jane Penberthy Phyllis Tichinin Barry Hutchings Jane Russell Pip Norvell Bedford Mackay Family Trust Jaquie Hardinge R Kent Betty Rawley Jennifer Kerr Richard Burgess Brett Fallen Jenny Quilliam Rachel Yeats Brian Cartmell Jenny Tait Randell, Tutton and Bell Bridget Elworthy Jo and Bob Munro Richard Noke Bryony De Boer Jo Hainsworth Richard Stoks BT Hammond Joanne Hamlyn Richard Worthington Beginner Gardener Seed Children's Garden Collection | $41 Cottage Garden Faery 2 Carla Roberts Joanne Hedge Ritz Wood Collection, 40m salads, stir This collection contains the seeds a Collection | $38 Chas Symes John Billings Rob Hammington fries, soups & stews | $170 wide mix of all those plants that get A special collection of heritage Cottage Garden flowers that are perfect for Take your family another step toward children excited in the garden. We Cherry E Dibley John Griggs Robyn Diamond creating a space that feels really special future food security! This seed include hut building instructions using Chris and Julene Wake Jude Knights Robyn Dyer place to remember our grandmothers, collection is specifically designed to go flowers and the vegetables included are and to tangibly feel the garden faeries Chris Livesey Kahukuri Bloodstock Ltd Robyn Scanlen with our Koanga Beginner Gardener exciting shapes and colours as well as easy and fun to grow - favourites for there as well. From my travels around Chris Morrison Karyn Davis Rox Sutherland-Valentine Booklet (not included). Full instructions old gardens it is clear to me that the for every step of the way in words, young gardeners. Craig Palmer Kay Langdon Roy Shackleton flower gardens of our ancestors who diagrams and charts, are in the booklet. Collection Contains: Sunflower came to this land in the early days were Daphne Ross Kirsten Garrabrant Sabine & Wolf Drueckler and Hiepe The seeds in this collection are worth Giant Russian (for making children's largely about reminding them of family Dave Webster Lesley OíCallahan Sandra Sheard $213.80 so you're saving $43.80! At huts), Morning Glory (for making and place. Dene Fowler Lisa Talbot Scott Dalziell supermarket prices the value of the food children's huts), Zinnia Chromosia (to grown from these could be $2,300! attract the butterflies), Cucumber Green Collection contains: Poppy Fire Circle, Diana & Justin Anderson Liz Hodgson Simon and Stacy Griffiths Chinese Forget me not, Sweet William Collection Contains: Apple, Crookneck Squash, Greenfeast Dick and Bertha Schoneveld Lorna Alden Sonja Hay Dwarf Pea, Gourd Nga Puhi (Ruka), Mix, Nicotiana Woodlands, Aquelegia 50 packets of seeds in this Collection Donna Campbell Lyn and Fred Kingdon-Sanders Susan Erskine Strawberry Popping Corn, Magenta Spreen Grandmother’s Garden, Hollyhock are the seeds of our ancestors, saved, Lamb's Quarters. Muriwai, Larkspur Early Grey, Aster Mix. Doug and Jane Russell Lynelle Taylor Susan King grown and selected to nourish people. Elaine Taylor Maara White Susan Lane • The Garden Action Plan which contains Elizabeth Keet Marco and Teresa Partridge Tania McLean a lot of useful information to support you to do a good job of this garden. Emily Eile Martin Ulenberg Tania Williams • The Crop Rotation Planner shows you Emma Darke Mavson and KA Early Viola Palmer when to aim for having your crops in Faye Fausett Melita Van Wordragen Wendy Klink the garden, when to expect them to be Fiona McQueen Melissa Hartley Yannick Walrelam out, and what will follow so that you get a sense of the seasonal rhythms. Fred Kingdon-Sanders Monika Geister Yvonne and Jim Wheeler • The Garden Map, which will show you Grace Heart Morley West Yvonne Shanks how to plant these vegetables in a way Grace & Iohangawai Te Pahi Murray and Rob Joyce that means you have 10sqm of heavy feeders, 10sqm of roots/legumes and Greg Dillon Nate Walker 20sqm of carbon/compost crops.

38 | Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 Koanga Fruit Tree Catalogue 2018 | 39 Kiwi Superfood Collection | $41 NZ Heritage Rare Seeds Nourishing Greens | $41 Wild Fermentation Winter Salad Collection | $38 Kiwi’s do not need to go to the Health Collection | $45 This is a special collection of seeds Collection | $34 This collection is great for beginner Shop and spend money on imported This is a very special collection of rare from the Koanga Institute! A tasty This collection of vegetables is designed gardeners - it will ensure that you products, to be able to eat ‘super food’. We vegetables that you will not find in any collection of wild greens and highly to inspire you to preserve your excess have fresh nutritious produce for can all grow ‘superfood’ in our own back other seed catalogue. They are some of nutritious garden greens to get the from the garden with the technique of winter salads over many months, yards. There are two critical ingredients: the special vegetables that have come minerals and vitamins we all need each lactic fermentation. Recipes included. with a variety of colours, flavours day, gotta love your greens! and textures. Includes some tips for 1. The right seeds. to this land with our own ancestors Collection Contains: Deka Cucumber, garden preparation. 2. The right growing conditions. and were valued enough by the last Collection Contains: Puha, Purslane, Ohno Scarlet Turnip, January King The vegetables and fruit you can grow few generations that they actually Lamb’s Quarters, Upland Cress, Endive Cabbage, White Icicle Radish, Collection Contains: Mrs Simpson with these seeds all have outstanding survived, to be available today for you Mix, Cornsalad, Winter Lettuce, Watermouth Tomato, White Belgium Lettuce, Miner's Lettuce, Asian Greens nutritional qualities and the details through the Koanga Institute and the Dalmation Cabbage, Watercress. Carrot, Henrys Chinese Cabbage. Mix, Welsh Bunching Onions, Winter about each are in the Collection for generosity of our members, and our Lettuce, Corn Salad (Mache), Upland you. We have included both Summer seed growers who are the life blood of Cress, White Icicle Radish. and Winter crops to create a year of our organization. fun and discovery and home grown This collection comes with the stories of superfood! each seed included. Collection Contains: Borecole Kale, Collection Contains: W F Massey Bequests Dalmatian Cabbage (Collards), Dwarf Pea, White Scotch Runner Bean, Welsh Bunching Onions, Souters Wonder Tomato, Guernsey Parsnip, By making a bequest to the Koanga Institute you will Watermelon (Navajo Storage Melon), Pean Dalmatian, Alma Tomato, Winter Cape Gooseberry, Magenta Spreen Lettuce, Upland Cress, Hokianga Red be supporting us to continue our important work. This Lambs Quarters, Wild Crafted Golden Yellow Maize, Emu Bean. gift is one that you may not be able to make during Purslane, Dalmatian Parsley, Austrian your lifetime, but will ensure that our heritage plants Hulless Pumpkin. are available for future generations as a resource for Rainbow Summer Salad cultivation and genetic diversity. The Institute relies Collection | $38 on generous contributions, and our membership fees. This collection of summer vegetables will ensure you have a load of colour, In these changing times it feels very important that fun, flavour and nutrition in your salads we continue to flourish and grow. We are very good this summer. We include some exciting recipes giving you some traditional ideas at making a little money go a long way. Please do not for using these veges in Summer Salads hesitate to contact us if you would like to know more. Collection Contains: Cucumber Port Our vision is to be able to save all of our NZ heritage Albert, Magenta Spreen, Beetroot Chioggia, NZ Heritage Lettuce Mix, seeds so that they can become the seeds our future Basil Genovese, Chives, Tomato 5 food is grown from. colour mix, Carrot Oxheart.

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