Badgersett Research Corporation:
Woody Agriculture research and development
With roots going back to 1978, Badgersett Research Corporation works on bringing "Woody Agriculture" into the mainstream world of full scale staple food production. Besides selling the nuts we grow, we breed and sell seedlings of hybrid hazelnuts and hybrid chestnuts, and we are involved in all aspects of commercializing these crops, from developing machinery and harvest procedures to consumer products and marketing.
New this fall, our hazel maze is open on weekends in October. We'll be open next year as well; see more details, keep up to date and Like us on The Badgersett Hazel Maze Facebook page!
We've updated our plants catalog, with a few new categories of tubelings from machine-picked seed. This pretty much sets the catalog for 2013, so make your order now! Why order this early for next summer? The earlier you get your order in and paid for, the closer you are to the front of the shipping queue- this means you're more likely to get what you ask for without substitutions, and more likely to get your order shipped on or near the requested ship date. Most of the orders we're taking now should get the requested ship date, but that won't last for long!
Also: we do still have some Hickory and Hazel nuts from the 2011 harvest. We've mostly caught up with our hazel processing, so delays in shipping should be minimal at this point.
Information about Woody Agriculture and our hybrid hazelnuts & chestnuts
Start here if you're new to Badgersett for information about who we are and what we do.
- What is Woody Agriculture? An introduction to the concept of Woody Ag and its economic and environmental benefits.
- Hazels and hazelnuts: The history of our Hybrid Hazels, instructions for growers, ordering information
- Chestnuts: What are chestnuts?, our Hybrid Chestnuts, storing and preparing fresh chestnuts
- Planting instructions: Planting and caring for Badgersett hazel and chestnut tubelings
- All info: An index to all the information we have online
Check out the new chestnut peeling youtube videos on the Badgersett Growers Blog!
Our New-Ish Badgersett Growers Blog is the best place to look for the latest updates- and of course you can subscribe to this feed to keep better up to date.
Visit the "New On Badgersett.com" page to find the details of recent updates to our web site.
We sell several varieties of our own delicious, homegrown, pesticide- and herbicide-free nuts. Harvest is in late summer and early fall, and nuts sell out very soon thereafter. If you want to spend your holidays roasting chestnuts over an open fire while munching on fresh hazelnut cookies, place your orders early, as we usually sell out!
You've read the info and given it some thought (and perhaps sampled some of our nuts), and you'd like put in your own plants. Like our nuts, plants sell out quickly, so place your orders far in advance of the next planting season for the best options.
