{"id":330,"date":"2017-01-31T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T21:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redfern.burnettdigital.com\/?page_id=330"},"modified":"2026-03-09T18:49:57","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T00:49:57","slug":"chestnuts-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/helpful-info\/chestnuts-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chestnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Chinese chestnuts<\/strong> (Castanea mollisima) can be grown just about anywhere with well-drained, slightly acidic soil, from zone 4 through zone 9. Chestnuts are a much-in-demand, high value crop, both worldwide and in the US. Wholesale prices to growers in the Midwest average over $2.00 per pound; $6.00 per pound for certified organic. Well managed trees in the Midwest can average 3,500 \u2013 4,000 pounds per acre by 15 years of age on a good site. They can be easily adapted to a system of production without chemicals or expensive machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Practical Farmers of Iowa hosted a workshop on growing chestnuts at the Iowa Arboretum February of 2019. They did an excellent job videoing the conference. We have four of those<\/a> videos available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you missed the 2017 Chestnut Conference in Letts, Iowa you can watch videos of the speakers.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For people who don’t like to read much, check out the brief “Chestnuts, planting, establishing<\/a>” handout.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A longer read with\u00a0\u00a0more detail\u00a0is the\u00a0Iowa Chestnut Primer<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A PDF copy <\/strong>of the 2026 version of the Primer is available by clicking <\/a>Iowa Chestnut Primer 2026<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not sure if the soils on your site are good for chestnuts? Try reading Tom’s article “So You’re Thinking About Planting Chestnuts…<\/a>“<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Looking for the Iowa Woodland Suitability Index?  Iowa Woodland Suitability<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Need information on pruning Chinese chestnut trees? Tom has written advice in his “Pruning Chestnuts<\/a>“.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harvesting chestnuts? We recommend using Nut Wizards<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese chestnuts (Castanea mollisima) can be grown just about anywhere with well-drained, slightly acidic soil, from zone 4 through zone 9. Chestnuts are a much-in-demand, high value crop, both worldwide and in the US. Wholesale prices to growers in the Midwest average over $2.00 per pound; $6.00 per pound for certified organic. Well managed trees … Continue reading Chestnuts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":183,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-330","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150179,"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/330\/revisions\/150179"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redfernfarm.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}