35th Annual Golden Gate Scion Exchange in Pleasant Hill, Feb 8, 2025

Photo courtesy of the California Rare Fruit Growers

Mark your calendar for the Golden Gate Chapter California Rare Fruit Growers’s Annual Scion Exchange. At the event, fruit growers select from hundreds of fruit varieties grown in Northern California. The event includes a free beginner class, free grafting class, demos, rootstocks for sale, fruit tasting, and a plant sale. Select from hundreds of varieties to graft onto your trees including almonds, apples, Asian plums, cane berries, cherries, currants, gooseberries, European plums, grapes, kiwis, mulberries, nuts, olives, other fruits, peaches, pears, persimmons, plumcots, pomegranates, quince, vegetable seeds, and seedlings that are seasonally appropriate for propagation. You don’t need to bring scions for trade if you don’t have any. 

What is a scion? Instead of starting from seed, fruit trees require scionwood. New branches which grew last spring can be grafted onto rootstock to create a new fruit tree that joins the strength of the rootstock with the desired characteristics of the scion. Gardeners who want named cultivars of fruit growing in their yard do this sort of grafting. Or you can have your tree grafted for a fee to make your own tree at the exchange.

35th Annual Golden Gate Scion Exchange 2025
Saturday, February 8, 2025, noon–3pm
(CRFG members can arrive at 11am to join or renew before doors open to the public)
Diablo Valley College, Horticultural Nursery, Lot 9
321 Golf Club Rd, Pleasant Hill
Admission: $5
More info: At the CRFG website, details are being updated as the event grows closer, so check back!