The Chestnut Plant Catalog

Please see What is a Tubeling? if you are not familiar with this term.

Badgersett Farm is the coldest, driest place anyone tries to grow chestnuts as a crop- and our breeding to deal with these conditions is paying off! Our 2012 crop was only slightly affected, if at all, by the extremely late spring freeze and extreme drought this year. Overall seedling performance is still not as reliable as our hazels, but a properly culled seedling field of these trees will be some of the tastiest, most reliable chestnuts around. For taste, don't just take our word for it: check out the article in the Atlantic Monthly from a few years back.

Detailed planting and care instructions for your tubelings will be shipped with your order. Click here to read up on the instructions now.

While seedlings will be variable, the majority will resemble the type stated. We only sell seedlings from tested parents. Our parent trees have proven hardy, healthy, and productive with test winters of -40F (that's 40 below 0). Parenting ability is also tested and proven for decades. These seedlings will perform!

ST-Che Standard Chestnuts $10.00 ea

Since we're a research operation, we offer several chestnut seedling types, and it can get confusing! Order our "Standard Chestnuts" and we'll send you what we've got. Availability and shipment on your requested date are most likely with this selection! A good deal for test plantings, and could be the right choice for part of your back yard or production plan as well. These are most likely to be All-Purpose or Nut type, possibly Select, and not likely to be Tree type. Breeding IDs not available.

SPECIAL NOTE: The chestnut blight is working its way through our plantings now, and more Tree-Type chestnuts are dying than other types. We expect several of our tree-type chestnuts to survive and do well, but this testing is currently under way, and waiting a couple of years for your tree-type purchase is Very Likely to result in better blight resistance. 

Chestnut Seed

Now taking orders for seed from the 2025 harvest

For the first time in over 20 years, we're offering chestnuts for seed. If you've got the facilities to safely keep these nuts in cold storage, and can get them going while providing effective protection against the massive array of nut eating pests, these could work for you.

That said, please read why we haven't sold seed for the past twenty years! There are really a lot of things that regularly go wrong; mostly they get eaten by mice.

Seed nuts are currently:

• -Only available as "Standard" genetics. Most likely to be All-Purpose or Nut Type.
• -Must be ordered by September 15.
• -Shipped in late November, without having been given cold hours. You will need to keep them moist and cool without freezing in order to allow germination in the spring.
• -Not guaranteed to germinate, since we cannot control your storage conditions over the winter.
• -Not shipped at any other time of year, since our facilities get the nuts germinating in February, when it is too cold to ship actively germinating seed.
• -Subject to the same quarantines as the plants.

Seed is sold on a "viable at shipping" basis. If you order 100 nuts, we will send you enough nuts that you will get at least 100 that are alive when we ship them. If they are treated well over the winter, you could expect 70%-90% of these to germinate.

SD-Che Standard Chestnut Seed 1–100: $2.00 ea
101–1,000: $1.75 ea >1,000: $1.50 ea