You ordered our Chestnut Seedling Trees, Now it’s time to Plant them! Open your box as soon as it arrives, don’t let your chestnut roots dry out. Your trees are dormant and it’s time to get them planted in the ground. Bare root trees do best when planted while they are dormant, we ship in […]
Tree Crops
Road Trip to John W. Hershey’s Defunct Tree Crop Nursery
Today I visited the old nursery remnants of John W. Hershey’s Downingtown, PA tree crops nursery. J. Russell Smith, author of Tree Crops, mentions John W. Hershey’s now defunct tree nursery in his book repeatedly. From what I can gather John Hershey worked tirelessly toward the improvement of native fruit and nut trees in the region. Much […]