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.
We are now taking orders for 2012 delivery of our NeoHybrid Hazel, Chestnut and Hickory trees! We have a good supply of nearly all types of standard tubelings, though XL material is in short supply. We also have a good supply of Experimental hazel and most Chestnut bare-root dormant tubelings. As always, allowing substitutions for your order will help speed delivery
Please disregard the outdated availability information on the plant order pages. Thanks!
Also: we do still have some Chestnut, 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.
Bare-root butternut plants will be extremely limited this year, and may not be available at all.
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
The 2012 Short Course will be March 30-April 1. If you're planning to grow hazels or chestnuts as a business, this will save you money- and you don't have to take our word for it.
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 always 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.
