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Grow Your Own Food<br />
Thank you to our wonderful customers.<br />
Many of you now have children and<br />
grandchildren who are now customers<br />
and they are also planting trees. Together<br />
we have planted more than a million edible<br />
plants and helped to make our own<br />
yards, neighborhoods and the planet<br />
more sustainable.<br />
We are all proud of this wonderful legacy.<br />
If you don’t have your own land to grow<br />
food on, consider contacting your county<br />
about a community pea patch in your<br />
area. Raintree has for years supported<br />
these community growing areas.<br />
Flavorful, Disease Resistant<br />
Varieties for Home Gardens<br />
Our Specialty<br />
For those of you who are new to Raintree<br />
Nursery, we select fruit varieties for<br />
flavor and ease of growing, with you the<br />
backyard gardener in mind.<br />
We have chosen many of our varieties<br />
because they are also rated among<br />
the highest tested for their nutritional<br />
content.<br />
We work with important fruit research<br />
organizations to search the world to collect<br />
the best backyard fruit varieties, as<br />
you will see as you enjoy our catalog.<br />
Raintree customers love our larger, wellrooted<br />
fruit trees and superior dwarfing<br />
rootstocks.<br />
Raintree now offers you about 800 cultivars<br />
from around the world, and we have<br />
many customers in every state.<br />
Our Quality Plants<br />
A large modern cold storage facility here<br />
at Raintree means all our bare root plants<br />
remain fully dormant through early June,<br />
ready to dig in and grow for you!<br />
We carefully pick vigorous, healthy plants<br />
that will thrive in your yard!<br />
Looking<br />
Towards the<br />
Future<br />
Raintree Nursery<br />
is looking for<br />
an investor who<br />
wants to help<br />
sustain Raintree far into the future. This<br />
is an excellent opportunity for a person<br />
interested in playing an important role in<br />
the sustainability of the environment.<br />
We are looking for either a person who<br />
wants to make only a financial investment<br />
or a person who also wants to live<br />
in a beautiful rural environment while<br />
carrying Raintree forward into the future.<br />
This is a rare opportunity to carry forward<br />
43 years of important work far into<br />
the future.<br />
If you want to learn more please send an<br />
email to ecobenj@gmail.com.<br />
Raintree Fruits and Your Health<br />
Why Do We Want to Grow Fruit in Our Yards?<br />
The main reason is so we will have the healthiest food possible for<br />
ourselves and our families. Raintree’s goal for 43 years has been to<br />
bring you fruit varieties that are flavorful and disease resistant and<br />
provide you with the healthiest home grown foods for your family.<br />
In recent years great strides have been made in analyzing the<br />
nutritive content of foods including fruits and vegetables.<br />
The Variety Matters<br />
For instance growing your own blueberries is a very healthy choice,<br />
however there is a significant variation in nutritive values depending<br />
on which varieties you plant. In addition, how you grow, harvest and<br />
preserve the fruit also adds or detracts from its nutritive value.<br />
Liberty Apple<br />
Disease resistant and rated among<br />
the best for your health.<br />
Caroline Raspberry<br />
Caroline contains 50% more<br />
antioxidants than most other red<br />
raspberries.<br />
For Your Health<br />
We have added nutritive information for many of the fruits.<br />
Look for information in the “For Your Health” boxes throughout<br />
the catalog. Here we have pictured just a few. You will find<br />
many more on our website.<br />
Have a Garden Designer Help You<br />
There are excellent permaculture and<br />
garden designers in many parts of the<br />
nation. Working with them before you<br />
plant can save you time and money.<br />
To find them try googling the phrases<br />
“permaculture” or “edible landscape”<br />
and your state. A great home garden<br />
and landscape starts with a well<br />
thought-out design.<br />
Rubel Blueberry<br />
Rubel is twice as high in antioxidants<br />
than most other Blueberry<br />
varieties.<br />
We work with a great group of experienced<br />
and affordable professional<br />
landscape and garden de sign ers here<br />
in the Pacific Northwest.<br />
Each of them is a well-trained professional,<br />
with in-the-dirt ex pe ri ence and<br />
a deep, special interest in using organic<br />
methods. They are affordable and if you<br />
2 Order online at www.RaintreeNursery.com or call 1-800-391-8892.<br />
Hartland Cherry<br />
All cherries are not nutritively equal<br />
Hartland rates at the top.<br />
live near them, they can visit your site.<br />
They can also help you via phone or<br />
email.<br />
Visit www.raintree<strong>nursery</strong>.com/<br />
plantcare/ to find out more<br />
about these designers.
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