Chestnut (ZCC) seedlings - 2 yr. old - Bare root- Hardy Chinese Chestnut

Chinese chestnut is desired for its hardiness, disease resistance and of course their nuts.  You can eat fresh or make your own gluten free deliciously sweet flour.  The nuts fall free to the ground.  All you have to do is pick them up.

Our ZCC tree regularly produces 100 pounds of nuts in good years. 

These are regionally proven trees to grow in the Northeast. Please see our web pages on chestnuts to learn more.

These are from locally grown and adapted Chinese chestnut trees on our farm.  So, you know if they can grow at our windy elevation of USDA zones 4B/5A they will grow in yours.  Try in zones 4a.  Dormant trees are 20" to 45" tall when shipped. When mature at 25 years they are about 25 to 30 feet tall and 25 feet wide, with a round form as shown. These nuts are typical of many Chinese chestnuts and are on the smaller size of orchard chestnuts. 

These are tasty, sweet nuts! If you ask us they taste like a sweet pistachio.

Wild Life Food Plot Heaven.  This is the tree for feeding wildlife.  Nuts drop early October to fatten up deer, bear and turkey for the winter.

Chestnuts often start producing nuts in year 4 or 5 and your tree will leaf out in year 3! Get it off to a good start and you may see nuts the following year.

These are tasty sweet nuts!

When do we ship trees in the fall?

We are at the mercy of nature when we ship trees.  We must wait for the trees to be dormant to supply you with the healthiest trees for spring vigor.  Juvenile trees do not like to go dormant until there is “killing frost”. The term killing frost just means the trees will stop growth and go dormant for the winter.

Spring we typically ship late-April to late-May weather dependent, dormant and bare root.  In the fall we ship mid-October to early November, dormant and bare root. 

You will be notified of pending shipment to your address, when a shipping label has been made for your order.

 Seedlings are typically 16"-40" tall. 

You need two trees for pollination.  We cannot ship to the west coast states or where chestnut gall wasps quarantines exist, like Michigan.  Cannot ship to Canada for small orders.  We do not have chestnut gall wasps on our farm.