For those who really thought ahead and froze some chestnuts for later use think chestnut ice cream for this summer. We enjoyed chestnut ice cream in Italy and I've never been able to replicate that experience, but I have placed a pretty good recipe on our recipe page. We fixed it for the 4th of July party!! Enjoy.
Be sure to check out the new chestnut pics. You might see yourself or someone you know!
Harvest is getting close!! We are seeing some of the burrs starting to brown and "ripen" up. For about 3-4 years running one tree always dropped the first nuts, on September 14th. But we've had it start as early as Sept 1, so we just wait. The weather has cooled a bit, finally, and some recent rains should help the nuts fill out well.
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We don't have a retail store at the orchard but we welcome visitors by appointment. Call or e-mail us.
Chestnut in July
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GREEN BEGINNINGS
We started planting chestnuts, pecans and Christmas
trees in 1995 on old farm ground north of Lawrence, Kansas. Following
organic practices since the beginning, the plantation has been
certified organic annually since 1998.
Growing up around wild black walnut trees in eastern Kansas, and being inspired by the visionary J. Russell Smith, author of Tree Crops, a Permanent Agriculture, I have always been driven to plant trees that produce food. Since cancer rates began to increase in the 1950s and '60's,
and pesticides and other synthetic farm chemicals showed up in ground
water and were implicated in the the poor health of farmers, it has
been my bedrock conviction that we would farm organically or not at
all. The more I learn about modern petrochemical-based agriculture,
the more convinced am I that tree crops offer a lifesaving, sustainable
path to the future.
certified organic by ICO
We are proud members of the Chestnut Growers of America
