Available Nursery Stock
For more than 25 years, Badgersett Farm has been crossing hazels and chestnuts to produce plants that are highly productive, blight resistant, cold hardy, and low-maintenance. In addition, our seedlings and parent plants have always been grown without the use of herbicides or pesticides, so they will not be dependent on chemicals for high nut production.
Here you will find information about how and why to grow our nut crop seedlings, as well as how to order plants from Badgersett.
Hazels
These hybrids differ substantially from the hazelnut cultivars presently grown in the Pacific Northwest. The most notable difference is that these plants are bushes. Our hybrids are crosses of North American wild hazels (for cold hardiness and resistance to Eastern Filbert Blight) and varieties of European hazels (for larger nuts and higher productivity), making it possible for the first time to grow productive hazels reliably outside the Pacific Northwest region. Read more...
Chestnuts
Badgersett hybrid chestnuts are different from all other hybrids available elsewhere in a number of ways. Our goal here has been to produce a domesticated chestnut tree with good, multi-purpose characteristics. We do not breed here to restore the wild American timber tree. Read more...
Hickories
Badgersett hybrid hickories! Descriptions and pre-ordering information coming soon; earliest availability 2009.
Butternuts
Available in 2008: butternut seedlings from female parents in our woods. These parents have had active butternut cankers for 30 years and have continued to grow and produce nuts. See Badgersett Bulletin 8 for details on the parents of these Survivor butternuts.
Ordering plants
We sell most of our plants as containerized seedlings, which we call "tubelings". Availability for hybrid chestnut and hazelnut plants is excellent this year; contact us for orders over 2,000 plants to discuss delivery timing. We also sell very limited quantities of bare-root dormant tubeling stock.
