Welcome to the family! 🌳 Roots to Fruits Nursery is a family owned and operated team dedicated to helping you grow your dream harvest. Rooted in Gays Mills, Wisconsin, we ship high-quality trees, berries, and vines to growers all across the country (bare roots ships nationwide and containers can ship up to 200 miles within our zone maps from our location.)
We specialize in unique heritage varieties and serve everyone from backyard beginners to seasoned orchard pros. Looking to graft? We also offer scionwood and rootstocks. Whether you're starting a small edible garden or a full-scale orchard, we provide the plants and expertise to help your sustainable landscape flourish.
Visit retail location for shopping and pick-ups at our sister orchard and tree nursery, 1913 Orchards🍎✨.
Noel Miller
Photo Credit: Gillian Pomplun
Evidence of Noel's green thumb came early. When he was 8, he grew the largest zucchini in his hometown and won a local competition. He even got his picture in the local paper. As an adult, Noel turned to apples and got into the fruit tree nursery business in 2005. He loved it so much, he wanted to start growing his own trees, so he reached out to BIll Meyer at Kickapoo Orchard. Bill inspired Noel to start grafting and growing his own trees. He taught him all about grafting, growing, and pruning apple trees. Noel soon fell in love with the Driftless area and moved there to start a nursery business.
We have an excellent relationship with all the fruit tree growers in the area. We test all our trees at our local orchards and travel around trying new varieties and making sure they will thrive in our local environment. We want to serve as a complete orchard stop.
Harrison Heilman
I was volunteering as an English teacher in the Philippines for the Peace Corps after my undergraduate years. Of all the places I have actually worked for money, Yellowstone National Park in the housekeeping department for Canyon Village was probably the most interesting.
Across the street from my mother’s house is this 95 year old gingko that is absolutely enormous. Ginkgos are extraordinarily slow growing trees but they can live over a millennium. Around the end of October every year this tree uniformly turns the most magnificent shade of yellow. The color lingers on the tree for 3 or 4 weeks. Then, seemingly overnight, the entire tree sheds all of its leaves in an overly dramatic fashion before hibernating for the winter.
My favorite tree is the Harrison apple - unsurprisingly it is a yellow apple that produces renowned cider. The cider is vinous, thick, and delightfully flavorful. It is also an incredibly rare apple, only having been saved from extinction by chance around the turn of the century.