At Long Last

Badgersett will be offering an extremely limited supply of production plants for spring 2025.  

All three of our hybrid species will be available for the first time in nearly a decade. Chestnuts, hazelnuts and hickory/pecans will be available. Email orders to badgersettresearch@gmail.com.

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We are now taking orders for these tubelings. Please place your order before March 1, 2025 for spring shipping. 

REMINDER! Any New Orders placed at this will NOT be shipped before JUNE 2025!  

This website is under construction and does still contain a some outdated information and links; but thanks to years of work by Brandon, we can now freely edit; and we're working on it all steadily.  Please bear with us, and check back often.  

Imagine a world where food production does not include plowing— or water running off naked fields laden with soil, fertilizer, and pesticides.

 That's the world we work for; and we have demonstrated for almost 40 years - it is possible.  And you should be able to make a living, doing it. With our roots going back to 1978, Badgersett works on bringing "Woody Agriculture" into the mainstream world of full scale staple food production.  You can plant them now.

Photo caption: In this photo- you are looking food production equal to soybeans; the nuts are hard to see; but there.

Besides selling the nuts we grow for folks to eat, we breed and sell seedlings of Neohybrid hazelnuts, chestnuts, and hickory-pecans; and we are involved in all aspects of commercializing these crops, from developing machinery and harvest procedures to consumer products and marketing.

Joel Salatin said:
"Anyone ready to innovate outside the box will be blown away by the vision and practical insights demonstrated in Growing Hybrid Hazelnuts. The eclectic blend of science and practical how-to information packed into this fascinating, readable book is enough to inspire a whole new generation of farmers. Turning soybean fields into hazelnut plantations is truly a vision for the stout-hearted pioneer futuristic farmer. Sign me up."--

The first definitive how-to for growing hybrid hazels is here! Available from Chelsea Green Publishing; or direct from Badgersett.

Check the Badgersett Growers' Blog for the most recent updates.

Start here if you're new to Badgersett for information about who we are and what we do.

• Introduction to Woody Agriculture: one-hour talk from 2011 short course.
• 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 Neohybrid 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 "tubelings"
• Site preparation, planting and establishment talk from 2014 short course.
• All info: An index to all the information we have online

Check out the new ways to peel chestnuta: YouTube videos on the Badgersett Growers Blog

The 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.

Keep even more up to date and connected by liking the Badgersett Facebook Page

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!

• Orders for Nuts and Oil to Eat.

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. Our hazel plants sell out quickly, so place your orders far in advance of the next planting season, and allow substitutes for the best options.

• Plant catalogs
• Hazel catalog
• Chestnut catalog
• Hickory-Pecan catalog