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 as an alternative to ordering here and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our offerings on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see all plants 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 will generally have more herbaceous perennials and grasses, 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 the plants 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!
Please be aware that some plants are considered ‘illegal’ in some states. It is possible that some of our plants are not allowed to be planted where you live. If you are in doubt, you can search the plant and your state and see if it they are prohibited or ‘illegal’ to plant and if so please don’t order them. Thanks.
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…
Bundles Flash Sale!
Bundles Flash Sale!
After the fullness of nursery digging, sorting and sharing of our lovely trees and shrubs we are often left with an over abundance of plants hoping to find homes. When we have ample numbers of plant friends of certain types left, we love to make them into incredibly economical bundles to share with the world. This can be an inexpensive and accessible way to establish meaningful numbers of seed grown, resilient, productive and adaptive trees for yourself and future generations.
We offer this opportunity to you as economical bundles of organically grown super hardy food and medicine plants. We have individual plants during our normal Spring and Fall sales and these bundles are intended to move many plants while the window is still open! We can’t do custom requests or break apart packs during this deal, we hope you understand.
10 trees feels like too much? Hey, share a few with friends!
Perhaps the gift of long lived, productive and beautiful trees planted in the landscapes of friends and family can be a lovely gift this holiday season…
Plant 5 and donate 5….
Pot up 8 of them to sell next year and pop 2 in at your spot, get free trees or even get paid to plant your own this way!….
Check in with neighbors and help organize a neighborhood orchard!
Mowing a lawn feeling tiresome? Maybe you are ready to replace it entirely with beautiful and low maintenance plants that generate food for everyone around you.
This moment makes all that easy to say yes to!!!
The trees in these bundles are from very good parent lines, produce remarkable amounts of food and our pricing matches or is below most every conventional nursery out there but has been grown by hand, with home made compost, no plastic, no machines, no fossil fuels. It just makes sense to do! :)
For these bundle sales we offer free shipping for orders at or over $300. You can enter ‘FREESHIP300’ at checkout in the discount area and if you have $300 or more in plants it will apply. This hopefully helps get folks excited to really plant some serious food forests now!
Each plant has much more detail provided on their respective product page, so check them out if you’d like to learn more (those pages are marked as sold out, you’ll order from here :)
Photos can provide a clear sense of size and scale of plants. As time allows we add photos and details for various bundles we offer. We may not have them all here but equivalent sizes to other plants is a reasonable estimate. Please review photos for the plants you are getting so you know what to expect!
Ruler is 24” tall for reference. Many plants will be larger than depicted in photos, very few will be smaller.
Default packs are our ‘Grade A’ which are 1st year field grown or air prune box grown plants with nice robust tops and healthy/full root systems and generally fully ready for field planting, aka can be planted in their final forever home upon arrival…
‘Grade B’ are our nursery grade seedlings. These may have come in a little smaller than the rest due to crowding or have a ding on the top or roots or are multi stemmed, etc. This option is an excellent way to get beautiful plants that need one season of care in a garden bed to get to be wonderful and field ready plants in one year. Some of our ‘grade b’ packs offer 1st year trees that cost as little as you would pay for a seed for that plant! Economical and a great way to build relationship with these lovely friends!
- If you think you may wish to explore being a small scale nursery in your local area our grade b packs can offer a way to ramp up lovely plants that can be sold next year for profit or to subsidize your own planting.
Black Walnut - All our black walnuts are from cultivar parents selected for large nuts, easy cracking (for black walnut!) and early bearing. Priced to find many homes this fall, SO much food resilience and beauty in these trees for generations to come!
American Persimmon - Beautiful Northern adapted line from seed saved from amazing and annually productive trees.
Paw Paw - Seed grown from our own diverse orchards of wild and cultivar mixed paw paws. A very diverse and resilient line
Ashworth Burr Oak - Seed grown from a beautiful tree that crops annually with low tannin nuts, unique and highly adaptable
Hazelnut - Our hazelnuts are from a very productive local orchard. Seeds are selected from trees with high blight resistance, thin shells, large nuts and high production.
Chestnut - Selected seed source from local orchard. We only grow out trees with the largest nuts.
Siberian Peach - Incredible shrub form peach with late bearing, small, delicious peaches you can grow from seed.
‘Shipmast’ Black Locust - Seed grown tree with amazingly straight and fast growth habit. Soil building, bee supporting, firewood producing and arrow straight lumber all in one!