I continue to operate as a one person office with part time help for bookkeeping and the computer while I personally do everything that involves my customers, such as order acknowledgements, seed packing, etc. Since I am often out working on seed cleaning or harvesting, you will not always get a live person when you call. I apologize for this, but please leave me a message on the phone recorder or by email so that I can get back in touch with you.
This year's crop of conifer cones is among the worst I have seen. It appears that we may not collect a single cone this season. This is very disappointing. Last year's crop was decent after several years of poor crops, but now we have another bad one. I have some inventory, as you can see from this price list, but I wish I had much more. We paid record prices for the collection of cones last fall but we still did not get enough. We are especially short of concolor and corkbark fir.
In the photo gallery on this web site, you can see photos of mountainsides of Abies concolor where half or more of the trees have died due to the last several years of drought. This is especially true for the Cibola and “Swift’s Silver” origins because they are low elevation and drier areas.
I believe we supply the best quality seed available. As with most things, in tree seed you are likely to get what you pay for. Lower-priced seed often turns out to be more expensive when purity, moisture content, germination, incorrect source identification, etc., are taken into account. Our only business is seed and we take pride in the job we do.
I am finding e-mail to be more and more useful and we are happy to correspond with our customers this way. There are some days when we do not check the e-mail, especially when I am busy with collection and processing of seeds. But, be assured, we will respond even if it takes a couple of days. The same applies to phone messages.
I want to thank all of our customers for your patronage and to wish you the very best for 2007. Mine is a small and very pleasant business, in large part because of the type of people who are my customers. I appreciate dealing with you.
Best wishes for the coming year!