https://www.catalogdb.com/tags/backyard-orchard/Recent content in Backyard Orchard on CatalogDB.comHugo -- gohugo.ioenCatalogDB.comFri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogdb.com/post/stark-bros/Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.catalogdb.com/post/stark-bros/ <h2 id="stark-bros-two-centuries-of-backyard-orchards">Stark Bro's: Two Centuries of Backyard Orchards</h2> <p>The Red Delicious apple traveled from an Iowa farmstead to backyard orchards across the country through the catalogs of <a href="https://starkbros.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stark Bro's</a>, a nursery that has been shipping trees directly to American growers since 1816. When Clarence Stark encountered a chance seedling grown by Iowa farmer Jesse Hiatt in the 1890s, the meeting produced one of American agriculture's most storied brand moments — Stark tasted the fruit, declared it delicious, and <a href="https://starkbros.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stark Bro's</a> acquired propagation rights to what would become the most widely grown apple variety in the United States for much of the twentieth century. That single variety's commercial ascent carried <a href="https://starkbros.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Stark Bro's</a> from a regional Missouri operation to a national name, though the nursery had already been shipping trees from Louisiana, Missouri for nearly eight decades before Hiatt's seedling entered the picture.</p>