Qing Chinese Chestnut seedling trees (Castanea mollissima 'Qing')

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Qing trees yield medium to large size nuts of an orange to tan glossy color. Qing scores highly in shelf store and often has the best blight resistance available to chestnut trees. It’s nut drop from the mid to late but drop window and it is hardy to zone 4.

Sunlight: Full sun

Drainage: well drained
Water needs: moderate

Placement: Open field

Growth habit: Upright, 35ft tall

Recommend spacing: Thin to 35x35

Years to first crop: 2-4

Hardiness: zone 4-9

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American Persimmon Seedling (Diospyros virginiana)

Trees produce medium size bright orange fruit with a sweet flavor distinct from other asian species. Fruit drop is in the fall from early September to late October and provides a good food sources for deer and wild life.

Sunlight: Full to partial sun

Drainage: well drained

Field Placement: tree lines and field edges

Growth Habit: upright, is not prone to suckering, can be 35 ft tall

Years to first crop: 3-5

Hardiness zone: 4-9

Mossbarger Chinese Chestnut (Castanea mollissima 'Mossbarger')

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The Mossbarger Chinese Chestnut (Castanea mollissima ‘Mossbarger) is blight resistant, with red to brown very large nuts. It typically has early to mid season nut drop.

Sunlight: Full sun

Drainage: well drained
Water needs: moderate

Placement: Open field

Growth habit: Upright, 35ft tall

Recommend spacing: Thin to 35x35

Years to first crop: 2-4

Hardiness: zone 4-9

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This package has multiple crops that once established will feed and attract big game. In spring, Elderberry bushes will leaf out and have very a palatable foliage, and sweet berries in late summer. American Persimmons will drop next, starting in early September and continue to drop until November. Next to hit the ground will be the chestnuts. These are the big buck makers, packing protein and sugar their nutriment make up is similar to corn and highly sought after by wildlife. Our chestnut trees are hybrid seedlings with strong blight resistance and early bearing characteristics. For the late season, Pecans will wrap up the season in November and December creating a food source into winter.

Contents

• 1 Planting and care package

• 5 American Elderberry cuttings

  • Fast-growing, multi-stem shrubs that produce prolific berries from late summer into fall.

  • Excellent browse for deer, attract songbirds and pollinators, and create understory cover.

• 3 American Persimmon seedlings

  • High-calorie mast favored by deer, turkey, and other wildlife; also useful as a natural food source through hunting season.

• 6 Blight Resistant Chestnut seedlings

  • 2 from each of our blight resistant cultivar mother trees. Qing, Sleeping Giant, and Mossbarger.

  • Produces abundant nuts in mid to late summer; reliable mast producer with vigorous growth.

  • Long-lived trees that supply high-energy food and hard mast over many years.

• 3 Scab Resistant Kanza Pecan seedlings

  • Produces large, nutritious pecans in autumn; excellent long-term mast tree.

  • Provides canopy, cover, and a consistent nut crop prized by deer and other wildlife.

Sleeping Giant (C. mollissima x (C. dentata x C. crenata)

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Sleeping Giant is a three way hybrid tree with Chinese x Japanese x American parentage. These trees bear medium to large light brown nuts in the middle of the chestnut nut dropping window, have strong blight resistance.

Sunlight: Full sun

Drainage: well drained
Water needs: moderate

Placement: Open field

Growth habit: Upright, 35ft tall

Recommend spacing: Thin to 35x35

Years to first crop: 2-4

Hardiness: zone 4-9

We cannot ship to California, Washington, Arizona, New Mexico, Florida, Michigan, or Louisiana.

Bring layered, productive, and wildlife-friendly plantings to your landscape with this curated starter kit. Designed for small-scale food forests, permaculture plots, and agroforestry, this collection combines fast-establishing shrubs, understory trees, and long-term nut producers to create diverse yields across seasons.

What’s included

• 1 planting care instruction kit for each crop

• 5 American elderberry cuttings: Fast-growing, multi-stemmed shrub producing summer clusters of edible berries and summer flowers that attract pollinators. Useful as an early structural and fruiting layer; berries are excellent for preserves and syrups (cook before eating).

• 3 Chicago Cold Hardy fig cuttings: Vigorous, low-maintenance plants that produce sweet figs in summer and autumn where winters are moderate. Works as a small, productive tree or espaliered edge plant in many temperate food forests.

• 3 Pawpaw seedlings: Native understory fruit tree with large tropical-tasting fruits in late summer. Shade-tolerant and a great companion for natives and nitrogen-fixing support species; attracts pollinators and specialty fruit enthusiasts.

• 3 American Persimmon seedlings: Long-lived fruit trees producing sweet, flavorful persimmons in fall. Provides seasonal fruit and wildlife habitat; many varieties are adaptable to a range of soil types.

• 6 Chestnut seedlings: 2 from Qing, 2 from Sleeping Giant, 2 from Mossbarger, all blight resistant. Nut-producing trees with high yields under good conditions. Fast-growing species selected for disease resistance where available; excellent long-term canopy layer for a productive food forest.

• 3 Kanza Pecan seedlings: Large, long-term nut tree with scab resistance offering high-value nuts and deep shade. Best suited to sites with space to accommodate mature spread and full-sun exposure.

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Grown from the seed of a healthy, vigorous and productive tree. Fruit is large and round, with a sweet taste profile. Seedlings are about 12 in tall with a strong taproot around 10 inches long.

Sunlight: Full to partial shade

Drainage: well drained

Water needs: moderate

Placement: Understory

Growth habit: Upright, 20-25 ft

Years to first crop: 4-6

Hardiness: zone 5-8

Kanza cultivar pecan trees are known for their high-quality nuts, which are medium to large in size with a rich, sweet flavor. They are moderately vigorous with good resistance to fire blight and other common pecan diseases, making them suitable for commercial and home orchard planting. Kanza pecans have a relatively early harvest season and adapt well to a range of soil types, particularly in the central United States.

Sunlight: Full Sun

Drainage: moderately drained

Water needs: High

Placement: Bottoms and edges of water ways, will tolerate flooding

Growth habit: Upright, 40ft-60ft tall

Spacing: Thin to 40x40 

Years to first crop: 3-5

Hardiness: zone 4-9, ideally 4-6, will survive zone 4 but will not bear nuts

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