Alaska Fruit Trees

web address:  www.alaskafruits.com                                 email: alaskafruits@gmail.com

Apple Flower with Honey Bee Photo by Sarah Masterman

We are a small family-owned and operated orchard in Fairbanks, Alaska. All the plants we sell grow in the Fairbanks area.

We sell a number of varieties of apple, plum, cherry, honeyberry, saskatoon, blackcurrant, Seabuckthorn and gooseberry plants. All the grafted trees are grafted by us and, many of the bush fruits are also propagated by us. We have a small U-pick in late summer as the fruit ripens, and also sell scionwood. 

There are photographs and descriptions of most varieties on the apples, pears, and plums pages. Much of the information is copied from sources included on the links page, but augmented with Fairbanks specific observations. (To see information about each apple variety, click the ╲╱ symbol next to "Apple Varieties' in the menu). 

All of the fruit varieties included in this web site fruit in orchards around Fairbanks. This site includes information on the rootstock as well as the apple hardiness, ripening times, fruit characteristics and storage time. For information about purchasing trees or scionwood, click here. 

We have included some information on planting and caring for your trees. This is the very basic planting and care information. There is much more detailed information available in books and over the internet.

If you have any photographs,  information or experiences you'd like to share, please email us and we'll include them. The more knowledge and experience we can gather together in one spot, the better off we will all be. 

Our orchard

Not all the varieties we grow will survive in all locations in Alaska, so please see the page on hardiness to determine which apples to grow in your location. For comparison, our orchard is at about 750 feet in elevation, faces west, and is about 10-15 degrees warmer than the Fairbanks airport. Most of these varieties are doing well in our orchard. Our coldest temperature for the past 10 winters is -40 degrees. Some of these varieties have survived temperatures of -57F in a small orchard in McGrath, Alaska.

Shafer 2012

Shafer 2012

"The best time to plant a fruit tree was 20 years ago, the next best time is today!"