Information about who we are and what we do

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• The future of the world is nuts!

  What motivates us, in a nutshell

  
• Intro to Woody Agriculture

  The intensive production of staple foods from domesticated woody plants

• Chestnuts
• • What's a chestnut?

    Horse chestnuts and buckeyes are different

  • About our Hybrid Chestnuts

    Domesticated chestnut trees with multi-purpose traits

• Hazels
• • About our Hybrid Hazels

    Species hybrids, selected for hardiness, high productivity, and low maintenance

  • Movie of mature Hazel rows

    (2 MB, QuickTime)

  • The Hazel Handbook:

    Detailed information about establishing hazel crops, and WHY.

• Planting and growing instructions

  Care for your tubeling chestnuts and hazels

• • Plant orders FAQ

    Frequently asked questions about how we do business

• Chestnuts
• • Why Old-Fashioned Chestnuts?

    They're so small—but well worth the effort

  • Storing & handling fresh Chestnuts

    Info for newbies AND connoisseurs

  • Cooking & eating fresh Chestnuts

    Make every Chestnut experience a wonderful one

• Hazelnuts
• • Cooking Hazelnuts

    Roasted or toasted?

• Chestnuts and Hazels to Eat!

• About Badgersett
• Curriculum Vitae of our CEO, Philip A. Rutter
• • Publications by Philip Rutter
  • • Reducing Greenhouse CO₂ Through Shifting Staples Production To Woody Plants

      December 1988

    • Woody Agriculture: Increased Carbon Fixation and Co-Production of Food and Fuel

      December 1989, Cairo

    • Badgersett Plantings, Projects, and Goals

      1988

    • Kill More Trees, as Fast as Possible Whole Earth Review 77.

      Winter 1992

    • Hybrid Hazelnut Handbook

      2002

• Bulletins of Badgersett Research Corporation (more to come)
• • Bulletin 1: Chestnut Pollinator's Guide
  • Bulletin 4: Suggested Control Tactics For Chestnut Gall Wasp And Other Specialized Insect Pests
  • Bulletin 8: Canker Infested Butternut Trees with 30-Year Survival
• The Root & Branch archives

  Our newsletter (no longer in production)

• • R&B #3
  • R&B #4
  • R&B #5
  • R&B #6