We’re planting an orchard for fruit, shade, and long-term resilience. North Texas is hot, dry, and clay-heavy in spots — every tree here has to earn its place. This page is the running inventory.
Stone fruit
- Peaches — the workhorse of North Texas orchards. Low chill-hour varieties bred for our climate.
- Plums — both Japanese types and native-cross hybrids that handle late frosts better than most.
Pome fruit
- Apples — limited to low-chill cultivars (Anna, Dorsett Golden, Ein Shemer). We’re realistic: this isn’t apple country, but they fruit.
- Pears — Asian and European pears, plus a couple of fire-blight resistant varieties.
Citrus & subtropicals
- Figs — practically a weed here once established. Several varieties for staggered ripening.
- Persimmons — both Asian and native American.
- Pomegranates — drought-tough, beautiful in fall.
Nuts
- Pecans — Texas’s state tree, and ours when we get them in.
- Almonds — experimental; we’ll see how they do.
Berries & vines
- Blackberries — thornless varieties along fence lines.
- Muscadines — native grapes that laugh at Pierce’s disease.
- Strawberries — a small dedicated bed, replanted every few years.
How we manage the orchard
- Guilds. Each tree gets a polyculture around it — nitrogen fixers, dynamic accumulators, and pest-confusing aromatics.
- Mulch heavy, water deep. Establishment irrigation for the first two summers, then they’re on their own.
- No spray by default. We accept some loss; healthy trees on healthy soil mostly take care of themselves.
- Records. Every tree is logged in the Farm Tracker with planting date, variety, source, and outcomes.
Want to buy fruit?
When we have surplus we sell at the gate or by arrangement. Contact us at hello@texanpermaculture.com.