Fruit Trees For Sale at Butternut Farm


Interested in having your own back yard fruit tree? Come by the farm in May to take a bare root tree home.

No pre-orders for spring of 2025. Trees are sold on a first come first serve basis and our expected inventory for this spring is just below.

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  • Most will be $37/tree. Some larger trees may be priced a bit higher.

    Our 2025 stock is on strong semi dwarfing root stocks that will result in self supporting trees that will be 10-15' tall at maturity

    (# indicates low supply, less than 5 trees)

    Honey Crisp: Crisp texture, sweet flesh and balanced acidity make this apple a truly unique eating experience. Low susceptibility to apple scab also makes it a good choice for a low spray orchard. Good for eating, cider, sauce and pies.

    Macoun: Snappy fresh eating in an apple that ripens in early October. A regional New England favorite that is also good for sauce and pies.

    Gala: The most widely planted U.S variety. Sweet and crisp apple on a productive and annually bearing tree.

    Cortland: Tried and true September multipurpose apple. An annual cropping tree that is easy to prune and care for. Cortland also has a slow to brown flesh making it great for slices. Fresh eating, sauce, and baking.

    Granny Smith: Extra green, extra tart, and extra firm. Early November ripening and stores well.

    Macintosh: A classic new england variety. Winter hardy and an annual bearer with mid September ripening. This apple has softer flesh with a nice sweet tart flavor, great for everything.

    Aztec fuji: Ripening right at the end of October. Crisp and sweet with excellent storage potential. Manage crop carefully to keep this variety out of it's bi-annual tendency.

    Idared: An excellent Mid October ripening cider, baking and sauce apple. We recommend this variety highly to our customers because it is very grower friendly: annual producer, good growth habit, and low apple scab susceptibility. A tarter apple that stores well.

    Ginger Gold: Golden yellow skin with a crisp juicy flesh. This apple ripens in late August and is one of the season's best, also makes a great pie. Highly recommended

    Golden Delicious: A mid October ripening yellow skinned apple. Sweet flesh when fully ripe, a great multipurpose apple. Excellent for pies, cider and sauce.

    Crimson Crisp: Ripens in mid to late September. This apple has a bold red skin with crisp white flesh and really good flavor. Known to be good for making both sweet and hard cider. This apple is also disease resistant making it a great back yard tree.

    Greening: A mid Sept ripening baking apple. Excellent pies, cider and sauce. 100% green, just like a Granny Smith.

    Zestar: Beautiful large apple that ripens in late August. Crisp but melting flesh with a lite bi-colored skin. This softer apple has a subtle hint of berry in it’s flavor profile. A grower friendly tree that likes to bear apples.

    (although some are self fertile, most apples need a mate for pollination, a second variety. We recommend at least three varieties in your orchard for adequate pollination)

  • Priced at $33/tree

    (# indicates low supply, less than 5 trees)

    Canadian Harmony: A yellow flesh freestone that ripens just after labor day. Reliable cropper and easy to manage tree. Large meaty fruit make them great for canning.

    PF-15a (Howard’s Choice): Ripens around Aug 20th. Very similar to Red Haven, the bench mark of yellow flesh freestone varieties.

    Glenglo: Ripens around August 10th. Great size and flavor for an early season peach. Freestone when fully ripe. We like this new comer!

    Contender: Another reliable cropper free stone peach that ripens just after Labor Day. Medium size fruit with good flavor.

    Saturn: White flesh and donut shaped. Known as the flying saucer peach. Pleasantly sweet fruit that ripens around August 15th.

    Sunglo: A yellow flesh Nectarine that ripens around August 20th. Very nice flavor

    Fantasia: A mid September ripening nectarine that is one the season's most asked for fruit here at Butternut. Excellent quality.


    (peaches and nectarines are self fertile, no need for a second variety and they are a highly recommended choice for all back yard fruit growers, including first timers because they are very simple to care for)

  • priced at $37/tree

    (# indicates low supply, less than 5 trees)


    Harrow Crisp: A bartlett type that ripens around Sept 5th.

    Harrow Sweet: A bartlett type that ripens around October 1st.

    Bosc: A round fruited pear that ripens in mid October

    Flemish Beauty: A Round european type pear with a red blush over yellow skin. Sweet and Juicy. A great choice for back yard gardens.

    (for cross pollination we recommend purchasing at least two varieties in your orchard. These varieties will all pollinate one another)

  • priced at $40/ tree

    (# indicates low supply, less than 5 trees)

    Black Pearl: Ripens very early July. Crack resistant and dark mahogany color.

    Burgandy Pearl: A new dark mahogany sweet cherry that ripens in the early third of July. Crack resistant.

    Stardust: A bi-colored sweet cherry, much like Rainer. Ripens in late July.

    Balaton: The most popular of the Hungarian sour cherry varieties. The fruit is on the sweeter side of sour. Great for pies, juicing or any other baking or processing needs, and eating.

    Methley Plum: A vigorous tree that produces beautiful small purple plums. Excellent flavor in this two bite wonder. Self fertile and early ripening.

    Santa Rosa: A larger fruit size with excellent purple over red color and fantastic flavor. Ripens 10 days after Methley.


    (Sweet cherries need multiple varieties for adequate pollination and the more the merrier. Designing a sweet cherry orchard with adequate cross pollination can be tricky, you want two varieties at the minimum.

    Sour cherries are self fertile, only one tree is necessary for pollination)