Thank you for your interest in joining our cold-hardy avocado breeding project!

The project is currently looking for people willing to plant first-year (untested) seedlings in Summer/Fall 2024, and second-year trees (seedlings and grafted) will be distributed again in Spring 2025.

Before you sign up, you should make sure you have sufficiently low expectations, and that you understand what your membership in the project will entail. Here is a summary:

• The project is open to anyone in USDA growing zone 8b or higher in the lowlands around the Salish Sea or along the oceanside coast of the Olympic Peninsula.
• Second-year trees will be distributed each spring, with most members needing to come to Seattle to pick up your trees (some limited delivery will still be offered). When there are excess first-year trees, those will be distributed on a rolling basis through summer and fall until they have all been potted up or planted out.
• We expect a significant percentage of the trees we distribute to die, but we'll replace dead trees in future years.
• You do not need to pay for the tree(s), but members agree that we can take and propagate cuttings from any trees that survive bad winters.
• In order to track the trees in our project, we need each member to post occasional updates to our website on the health and size of their trees.

If that summary leaves you with lingering doubts or questions, feel free to read the long version instead. If you still want to join, please send an introduction email to thedrymifolia@gmail.com, and you will be added to the project soon. Due to abuse by spam bots, there is no longer a form here to add your own email address to the project.