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What you are actually buying
Not a bare-root whip out of cold storage, and not a mail-order stick in a bag.
Started in February
Every seedling begins in our heated grow shed in early February, with light fertilizer and controlled watering, so it gets a full spring and summer of growth before it hardens off in fall.
Real taproots
Grown in 4" x 12" deep tree pots. You get a developing taproot, not a root-bound plug that spirals and strangles itself two years after planting.
Ahead of their age
Because of that head start, our seedlings are comparable to a two-year-old naturally grown tree by the time they go in the ground.
Tree tubes & posts
Protection is not optional on most Iowa ground. An unprotected seedling is a deer snack.
5 ft tree tube
Comes complete with a fiberglass rod and a bird net for the top, so birds cannot drop into the tube and get trapped.
Buy these on their own — no install required.
Add a tube to your cart
T-posts
Steel posts to anchor tubes and cages. Priced at current market rate according to the length your site needs, so we quote them rather than list a fixed price.
Sold with installation only. If you are planting yourself, T-posts are cheap and easy to pick up at any farm store.
Plant more than one
This is the single most common and most expensive mistake we see. Most of these trees cannot fruit alone.
Wind-pollinated nuts
Chestnut, hazelnut, pecan and oak are pollinated by wind, not bees. A lone tree will flower and set nothing. Plant at least two, ideally more, within a couple hundred feet of each other.
Persimmon is male or female
Individual persimmon trees are one sex or the other, and only females make fruit — and only if a male is nearby. Seedlings cannot be sexed until they flower.
Buy four or more for good odds of getting both sexes.
Want a sure thing?
A named grafted cultivar of known sex removes the guesswork. Those are available for custom installation only, as older two to four year old stock.
How to buy
Seedlings only
Pick your trees and check out. Pickup at the farm near Casey, or a meetup on the west side of Des Moines.
Trees + planting
We deliver, plant and protect. Choose a mulch ring only, or add a tree tube with T-post and steel wire.
Livestock ground
Fenced or caged protection for pasture with cattle, sheep or goats. Every site is different, so these are priced individually.
Nut trees and native fruits are $20. Apple and pear seedlings are $10. One price across every species and every chestnut seed family, in a 4" x 12" deep tree pot. No premium tiers, no guessing which family costs more.
Want nuts or fruit sooner? We also grow trees on into larger 1 and 2 gallon pots. Two, three, four and five year old trees are available for custom plans. They cost more than a seedling, and they are the right call if you want production in a year or two rather than waiting — a three year old chestnut or hazelnut can even bear its first season if conditions cooperate. Stock changes constantly, so email or call to ask what we have.
Looking for specific cultivars? The named selections we grow, and the reasons to choose one over another, are on the species pages — nut trees, native fruits and seedling fruit.
Already running food plots, clearing ground, or starting to farm? We can supplement a food plot plan you already have, identify and mark existing trees worth keeping, and help you repopulate cleared ground. More on that here.
Questions are welcome
Any and all of them. We would rather talk you into the right planting than sell you the wrong one.
Email first, then let's talk. Email is the best way to make first contact — we reply within 48 hours, and normally within 6. But once you are actually planning a planting, a phone call works far better than typing back and forth.
Drop your phone number in your email and we will call you. You are also welcome to call us and leave a voicemail if we miss you.
Timing: we take reservations through the winter. Trees are ready from April at the earliest, and we keep planting through the season, potentially into September depending on the species and the weather.