Chinese chestnut

Bare root seedling trees. It requires at least two trees for cross-pollination. Chestnuts are wind-pollinated.

Feralwood select: A late frost kept this one out of the inventory last year! The mother tree is planted within the Feralwood food forest at Ardea, and produces the largest nuts I have yet to see on a non-grafted Chinese chestnut. At nearly 13 years old, the tree is very healthy and highly productive.

Red Feather select: In the area of rural North Carolina where I dwell, chestnuts are a somewhat regular sight, being feral throwbacks of the old homestead life. Of the dozens of chestnut trees I have mapped out and regularly forage from, I select seed annually from a single tree (within a patch of seven). This tree, located at Red Feather Farm and Pottery near the South Mountains in NC, is robust and reliably produces an abundant crop of large chestnuts. (see image)

Seedlings range in height from 1 to 3 feet tall. Chestnuts provide abundant and nutritious food for humans, livestock, and wildlife.