How a Team of Hobby Growers Made Sonoma a Hotbed of Rare Fruit

How a Team of Hobby Growers Made Sonoma a Hotbed of Rare Fruit

In the late ’90s when David Ulmer first moved to Sebastopol, he and his wife started a compost pile in the corner of their yard. one day, a lone peach seedling sprouted from the mound of leftover food scraps. At this point, it sounds like the beginning of a Roald Dahl novel. And just like any curious character in a children’s book, Ulmer let it grow. “Being a fruit grower, I said, ‘Let’s see what it does,’” he remembers. Today, the tree and the…