Fresh Chestnuts For Sale Direct From the Farm

The Washington Chestnut Company offers fresh chestnuts for sale right from the farm in northwest Washington State. Orders can be shipped to anywhere in the USA. Chestnuts grown in Northwest Washington experience a cool growing season resulting in sweeter chestnuts, just like the chestnuts from the mountains in France and Italy. The cool growing season also has the chestnut trees hold on to the nuts much longer than warmer growing areas. Later falling chestnuts is good for you because the chestnuts will not have been in cold storage for weeks, giving you the freshest chestnuts possible.

We use best practices methods to manage the orchard and the delivery of the fresh chestnuts to you. Our most important best practice is to help you enjoy chestnuts to their fullest. We look forward to being your chestnut farm of choice when you are in the market for fresh chestnuts.

Enjoying fresh chestnuts in your diet is a great choice. Chestnuts are low in fat, gluten free, high in fiber, and they taste great. It is hard to find a better tasting food item than fresh chestnuts. Chestnuts are also a very versatile ingredient for many types of dishes aside from just eating it fresh from the roaster. From soups to salads, main dishes, and even deserts, chestnuts can be a part of each and every one. To get started using chestnuts in your culinary dishes, order some chestnuts right from the farm where the chestnuts are grown by placing your order today. This is our order form or you can call us toll free at 1(877) 966-7158.

Chestnut trees for sale directly from the grower. Thinking about growing your own chestnut trees? It takes from 3 to 12 years for a chestnut tree to start producing chestnuts. Also, chestnut trees require at least 2 pollen producing trees to produce nuts. So plan on having at least 2 chestnut trees. You will also need a little room. Each chestnut tree needs about 30 feet from any other tree or shade producing structure. And one other thing, do not plant chestnut trees in clay soil. We currently have chestnut seedlings of American chestnut trees and European hybrids for sale. Grafted chestnut trees are availalbe for sale for these chestnut cultivars: Bisalta #3, Belle Epine, Colossal, Marigoule, Marival, and Precoce Migoule (see our products page for more info). If you wondering which chestnut trees are best for you, our chestnut cultivars page has a write up discussing many of the chestnut trees that can be grown in the Pacific Northwest.


Chestnut News

September 28, 2011 - Chestnut tree wind damage
Over the three day period September 25 - 27, orchards in the Pacific Northwest were hit by high winds resulting in tree damage and burrs being ripped from the chestnut trees to the ground. There are still lots of burrs on the trees with most trees left standing, but still an economic loss to the growers. This article "Rising to the Sky and Falling to the Ground" we look at these losses and how to manage them.

June 20, 2011 - New Order Received for Over 200 Grafted Trees

Washington Chestnut Company today received a confirmed order for over 200 grafted named cultivar chestnut trees to be delivered in the early spring 2012. This order represents the months of effort propagating the chestnut trees and working with the customer to select the best chestnut cultivars for their growing conditions and commercial chestnut production. The orchard is located in Eastern Oregon in an area where there is warm summer days and well drained soils. The order includes these chestnut cultivars:

Bisalta #3
Colossal
Marigoule
Precoce Migoule
Regina Montis

These cultivars represent some of the best chestnut producing chestnut trees available to commercial chestnut growers providing primary production with the Colossal and pollination with the rest of the cultivars.

Washington Chestnut Company is a producer of fresh chestnuts from its orchard operations and chestnut trees from its nursery operations. The nursery operations offers over 20 named chestnut cultivars to commercial chestnut producers, retail garden and nursery stores, and direct sales to the public.

May 5, 2011 - Growing Degree Days (GDD) for generating a good fall harvest of chestnuts, is without a doubt, as important to a chestnut grower as the amount of available moisture in the soils. This article about the GDD requirements for chestnuts can help growers better understand the risks with poor growing seasons. Chestnut Growing Degree Days - The Making of Chestnuts

March 25, 2011 - Two new chestnut cultivars are now available for ordering for delivery in late November. These two new cultivars are perfect for those people who have room for only two chestnut trees on their property. They both produce pollen so they will cross pollinate each other (other pollen producing chestnut trees will also pollinate these chestnut trees). These chestnut trees, Regina Montis and Regis Montis both produce medium sized nuts that fall free from the burr and are they so sweet. In addition to being so sweet, the kernel texture is one of the best we have ever tasted. To be a great chestnut it also has to peel easily and this one is as easy as it gets. Both trees are very fast growing with the Regis Montis being more upright than Regina Montis. You can expect both trees to grow 3 to 5 feet a year starting in the second year and continuing until they are over 25 feet tall. One last note, both these trees produce chestnuts in the second year after planting so the long wait to get the first chestnuts is over.

March 18, 2011 - In February of this year a study was completed for the purpose of determining the maximum storage times for fresh chestnuts held in a standard refrigerator found in most kitchens. The study focused on changes in the quality of the chestnuts if held for long time in a sealed plastic bag. The study started with processing the chestnuts using food industry processing standards for sanitation and handling. The chestnuts in the study were all from the same cultivar (Bisalta #3). The study was terminated in the third week of February (105 days post harvest) when some of the chestnuts showed signs of germinating. None of the chestnut kernels had any molds or discoloration at the end of the study. To carry this study to its fullness the chestnuts were allowed to cure/sweeten up for varying days to determine when the peak sweetness would be obtained. The study found that curing/sweetening the chestnuts for 3 days gave the best results for sweetness and taste. The full text of the study is available here - Fresh Chestnut Storage Study.

February 10, 2011 - Chestnut trees require cross pollination to be able to set nuts with the kernel filled in. In this new section titled Chestnut Tree Pollination the issues associated with getting chestnut trees to successfully set nuts is discussed in detail and plain English. It is part of the Chestnut Growers Guide under chapter 4 Tree and Orchard Maintenance.