These trees are from Sunset Nursery in Yuma, AZ, which supplies nearly every nursery in town.

We’ll have grapefruit, oranges, lemons, limes, tangerines, tangelos, mandarins, and specialty citrus like calamondsi, kumquat, limequat, sour orange, and multi-grafted cocktail trees.

Final selections and inventories will be updated August 1st-2nd.

Due to how Sunset Nursery operates, there is a small chance that some varieties we order become unavailable by the time we place our final order.

If that is the case, we’ll offer substitutions as well as refunds.

Sunset Nursery has told us that they use Sour Orange, Volkamariana, Macrophylla, Carrizo and C-35.

However, they don’t keep a list of which varieties are on which rootstock as it changes occasionally, and unfortunately we cannot request specific rootstock.

All citrus are best grown in a warm-temperate climate.

Since Arizona is mostly desert, with some areas getting super hot, and other areas experiencing frost/freezing, please do your own research to confirm whether the varieties you desire will work in your USDA zone / region.

In our product descriptions, we will do our best to provide some general climate answers.

From Sunset Nursery:

Due to the citrus quarantine in AZ, these trees are not certifiable organic from the nursery, but would be certifiable after 3 years of not using chemicals on them (about the time the trees would be getting into full production anyway.)

There is currently no such thing as a GMO citrus tree, and synthetic fertilizers are absolutely used and HIGHLY recommended for the health and production of the tree. Compost and mulch will simply not cut it for citrus.

Our wholesale pricing for citrus is as follows:

Sunset Nursery wholesale price

+ Stripe payment processing fee 2.9% + $0.30

+ handling fees of $10 per 5-gallon, $26 per 15-gallon, and $73 per 24-inch box tree

+ 10% program overhead (online store uptime, marketing, logistics)

We do not add any transaction fees, and as a registered 501(c)(3), we are exempt from charging Arizona sales tax—savings that we pass along to you!

All program proceeds go directly towards our food and water security programs like Community Permablitzes and the Phoenix Food Forest.

Arrival timing depends on the grower’s shipping schedule and when our order can be paired with another order on the same truck. We’ll notify everyone as soon as we know the delivery timing.

Free local pickup will be available from at least one location in the Phoenix area. Once that location is determined, it will be listed here, on the online store/checkout, and provided to everyone via email.

Paid delivery (and planting services) will be available throughout the Phoenix Metro Area; pricing will depend on the distance but will be similar to the Wholesale Deciduous Fruit Tree Program.

We’ll email the final date, location, and fulfillment instructions after Sunset Nursery inventory and the group-order schedule are confirmed.

If you are ordering far outside the Phoenix area, we recommend getting a few neighbors together to join the order and split the delivery or pickup costs. (e.g. renting your own enclosed trailer)

We will also help coordinate regional distribution as we do with the Wholesale Deciduous Fruit Tree Program each winter!

If you struggle to afford local nursery prices, or just want the best deals possible, this program is for you.

While we support locally owned nurseries every chance we get, we created our charity (and these programs) to make homesteading as accessible as possible for all.

Last year, we collected over $25,000 in pre-orders for the deciduous program, and we got so many requests for citrus.

We sure do. We want you to be fully confident in your investment into these trees.

We offer delivery from $20 - $50 based on zip code, planting from $95 - $250 per tree based on size, & ongoing care as additional services.

If you need help with planning the design of your planting layout, please request a consultation.

Yes, as with all earned-income charities, we earn net revenue from our operations.

However, our Wholesale Programs are intended to keep your final costs down as much as possible, so we run them just barely above our own costs. Therefore any supplemental donations are greatly appreciated!

We guarantee that we will only sell you living, healthy trees.

If you hire us to plant & steward your trees, we also guarantee their success and will replace anything that does not survive at no cost to you.

Planting your own? We still want to take care of you. If a tree struggles or does not make it, email team@permascaping.com so we can help. We have replaced trees even when planting or watering mistakes were involved and we were not obligated to do so. We review each situation individually and will work with you toward a reasonable solution.

The last day for order changes and refunds will be August 31st. Email team@permascaping.com and we will review each request on a case-by-case basis.

(Don’t worry, we’re very understanding in reasonable situations.)

Please email team@permascaping.com with any other questions. We’re excited to have you in this group order!