Bare Root Plants for Sale
Thank you for your interest and happy growing!
PLEASE READ: If you are local or regional to the Finger Lakes area (able to pick up in person), feel free to reach out to hello@edibleacres.org with a clear wish list of plants and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our inventory on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see everything as sold out, please make a note in your calendar to revisit at our next ‘opening’ and pick up some lovely plants!
Our Fall offerings tend to have higher numbers of trees, shrubs, cuttings and a medley of our abundant and fall appropriate herbaceous perennials. Spring offerings will generally have more herbaceous perennials, grasses, etc and a smaller number of trees and shrubs. We weight our inventory in large part based on seasonal appropriateness for establishment. We hope you understand and visit again if you don’t find what you are looking for this time.
If you are super eager to get plants now, we now have a Permaculture Nursery page that lists friends of ours with ethical and thoughtful growing practices. We strongly encourage you to check them out and get some awesome plants from them too!
TIP: Use the tags above to help filter our offerings by characteristic (ie. click on ‘fruit’ to find any fruit bearing plants we offer, etc.) As we add more and more it is a helpful way to find a plant to fit your goals…
Chestnut
Chestnut
Castanea
The Chestnut is a true wonder. Incredibly fast growing, hardy to extremes of cold and heat, beautiful in bark, leaf, flower and burr and remarkably useful as a staple food bearing canopy tree. Some of the tallest and strongest trees we have at our 10 year old food forest site are Chestnut trees. With healthy and diverse parentage, naturally hybrid Chestnuts can live for many many human generations and provide heavy yields of incredibly delicious and nutritious nuts, generally on an annual basis.
Just to help clarify for folks: our offering is of complex Hybrid Chestnuts. This means they come from naturally mixed backgrounds of parents that have many cultures in their history. This is not GMO or laboratory or things of that nature. Imagine these trees as having grandparents and great grandparents that are Native American, Chinese, European descent, etc. All naturally blended into healthy, adaptable mixed beings ready for an uncertain but exciting future…. We specifically collect from a very wide range of parent trees so our offerings can be as genetically diverse and open as possible. Some of these can be the cultivar selections of the future!
You’ll want more than 1 tree to get pollination, so we offer a bundles trees as well as single trees.
Our main offering are at least 1’ tall (generally much taller) and really ready to be planted out in their final homes. For folks wishing to save some money and open to growing out trees one more year in a nursery bed, the ‘grade b’ trees are a super viable and economical way to get some lovely plants at a discount!
Size:
Parent trees are roughly 35’ tall and quite wide and spreading. These seedlings should grow to similar form over time.
Site Preference:
Enjoys full sun and can tolerate drier soils.
Hardiness:
Zone 4
We offer plants that are ready to be planted in their final location and also have ‘Grade B’ which are seedlings that haven’t quite reached a threshold to be considered fully retail ready. These seedlings are completely alive and healthy, just a little small (10” or shorter). They can be planted out in their final homes with a bit of extra TLC, watering, mulch, etc., or best would be to plant them in a communal ‘nursery bed’ to grow for one full season, develop much larger root systems and be very field ready in one growing season. A very economical way to get lots of plants for sure!
