its one thing to farm or be a gentleman farmer caring for the land part time. its a whole different story once you plant trees. you really become a steward of the land because you are not planting them for you to enjoy but future generations to admire. Great job.......

When we lived in south central Illinois and planted walnut trees over three hundred. I planted them in marginal pasture and now thirty years later our oldest son have a good crop of Black Walnut trees to help him with his retirement plans.

That solves the mystery of what showed up in my backyard, the hull of a chestnut. 🌰I live in the suburbs with no trees on my tiny property, but a lot of squirrels. 🐿

Time flies when you're enjoying your life😃❣️

Thank you for the update! We love your videos and the chestnut updates are some of our favorites!

Trees are starting to grow up! Nice job.

Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!

I have found #3 rebar cut to the desired length makes the best and most economical stakes for tree tubes.

Hi Evan, the tree are looking great. Thanks for sharing.

I'm glad to see that the trees are doing well. that was a great idea to plant trees that would help the wild life. I look forward to seeing them when they get bigger. keep up the good work.

Wow, we had no idea chestnuts came in burrs! How interesting. Thanks for sharing!!

Yalls Orchard is doing Good! Another Success Story!

That is Awesome!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Week!! 😊⚘❤

Loved the way you pictured the future, sitting and watching the deer...

Thank you for planting trees. We need them. I sure enjoy your videos.

Good for you I wish more people would plant these and elms!

So I didn't even know those tree's were available. I think it's neat that you planted these, sounds like they are doing well.

Nice pick . This tree needs a comeback!

i have three chestnuts and i love them

Great update. Your Chestnut tree's look so nice.

Nice update!! Thanks

Nice job 👍 I have a couple growing in my yard in Wisconsin that I planted from seed. Started getting burs last year.

Thanks for the update, I copied your techniques for germinating and planting dunstan chesnuts for a deer plot in mid Michigan area. It's a pretty cheap way to create a long-term deer plot, just takes a while to get it goin.

Very interesting Even. Hope the new trees grow well.

Thanks for sharing Evan, looks like they have taken root and will produce when they are allowed to spread out and grow. I understand about having to protect them from the animals until they are big enough to take care of their self. Can't wait to see a bunch of the all full blown growing and producing Nuts. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

ENJOYED YOUR POST TODAY...I GREW UP IN A GROVE OF CHESTNUT TREES IN THE FORTY'S! The spikes on them were a killer when we were bare foot all of the time...I wish I could remember more about what we did with then as a kid..probably sat and watch a car drive over them and hear them POP!!!! Maybe even had a Chestnut sale thinking the neighbors would buy them...anyway it's been fun watching you talk about the growth part as I doubt I never knew that...Thanks Evan....from Helena Montana...

Thank you for sharing. I am going to clear out a lot of brush this fall and want to plant chestnuts once its cleared.

Excellent video....Thanks for what you are doing for wildlife

I bought a house years ago and there were 3 full grown of these trees in back yard close to the house. Liked the nuts but it was horrible dealing with the burrs and a lot of work to remove them so the pets and our feet didn’t get damaged. We finally cut them down after a trip to the vet for 2 cats with paw damage and all of us coming in contact with the burrs on the ground even months after they fall off the trees. Definitely would have them again only never near the house or area where kids would like to play. Your place is looking so nice love the fall colors starting and the drone shots too. Susan

GREAT drone opening! I think Oct 22 is a Saturday ... an excellent day.

Thanks Evan

Good to see the chestnut trees are coming along, do you have any blueberry plants, we had some old plants and just in the last few years replaced them for new stock. Good one Evan, love the looks of your place, thanks for sharing, have a great week.

Loved it. Now I want so E of them

Great share. I'll have to order some to add to my property. Try pawpaws at your place, I started those plus English walnuts and hickory nuts. You can find similar tubes (different style but same function) in the wine-grape industry. Really need to protect the trees against deer and rabbits. Apparently chestnut trees were a big people food staple and cash crop in Appelatcha -- so they are not just deer fodder.

As at least one other commenter has said, Great job!

It is great that you are taking the time, money, and energy to get the trees growing. It will enhance your property in the long run too. I wonder how many people do this just to increase the number of trees as opposed to doing something just for profit. Take care, jack

Can’t remember which big tree you were showing but it was the one with a “second tree” coming out near the trunk. That “second tree” is sucking the life away from the first. Hence the word “suckers” which they are called. Prob would be 1/3 bigger if you get it off of it. I’ve been considering planting some of these. Can’t wait to keep seeing the progress updates and if you have an issues with them (prob burrs, disease, etc)

Hello from the Netherlands . thanks for the video . Sincerely, Hollandduck

Great info thank you !

The drone footage of the pond was awesome. Show more drone footage of ur farm please.

*How are these Chestnuts doing? i need to bring a box of bees there to pollinate them hahaha Best honey ever is chestnut honey. Hope the trees are still there and healthy.*

We start pecan trees.. Bought our first batch,but took cuttings off those to propagate the rest..takes longer but it’s cost effective

I’ve got my first chestnuts off of one tree. Other tree fertilized the other. Got about 90 nuts. Most only had one nut fertilized in the burs

JudithB We planted an Almond and 2 pecans along with apples, plums and peaches our first year. I want to plant some Hazelnut bushes soon, but planting apples and figs this year. Putting in new blackberries, Concord grapes and blueberries this year too. The deer seem to want to eat everything I plant unless it is poisonous!

I love chestnuts! Nice video! Are you headed to the equip expo next week? Keep up the good work

I planted some seedling last fall. Build a chicken wire cage around it. Went back last week and the cage was knock over and flatten. The seedings was gone, eaten down to the ground. I guess the deer really love eating the plant stalk too.

I recently learned about the American Chestnut and the blight. Learned about the ones that were bred to make them resistant. I am looking to put two of them on my land here in Virginia.

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Are you going to roast them? I remember when i bought a bag of roasted chestnuts in Hong Kong in the 80s. They were roasted in a half 50 gallon barrel, oh they tasted so good!

Your concern for the trees to be environmentally friendly to animals especially deer is admirable. I assume you have a bit of an ulterior motive (do I see venison dinners in the future?) Also, the pictures showing the pond are great. The pond looks almost back to normal. How about the fish? Have you restocked it?

Maybe for pollination purposes planting fruit trees with the nut trees and a variable yield. Waiting for the tree yield would drive a farmer to his porch and a rocking chair. Hopefully next year they'll be some chestnuts.

3/4” rebar would make great stake for chestnut tree. Get 20’ sticks and cut 5’ stake 2’ in ground 3’ out to tie tree tube to. Enjoyed

If you get the grass under control around the trees and put some bark around the trees to hold the moisture you will see a lot more growth looking good

Just planted three Dunston chestnut trees from my mother tree

I bought seeds from chestnut ridge and planted home-grown seedlings in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 and 2018 seedlings from chestnut hill were planted. The 2015 losses were significant. Adding drip irrigation made a world of different in survival rate. My growing zone is 8, which is quite warm. My orchard currently has 60 trees. First harvest in 2020 - not many burs. 2021 harvest, 8 of 60 trees produced 25 pounds of nuts. This year 27 of 60 trees produced 78 pounds of nuts. There are 35 pounds of unopened burs that I will cast into the forest for the wild animals and hopefully self-seed. I gave last year's harvest to the Georgia Nursery but haven't heard of their germination rate. I doubt that it was very good because they said that they would germinate them in a 6-inch trench like they do pine trees. I gave them references of successful growers like Chestnut Ridge and Hill and KZfaq videos like John Sangl"s. Why learn from others, when you are a government expert, right? I don't think they stratified them either.

Have had walnut (squirrels love walnuts) and cherry trees on west coast of Canada, though never chestnuts. Always wanted to try sugar maples. You should have a nice crop of chestnuts in a few years. Your site would be perfect for a couple beehives too.

Ahhhhh <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="341">5:41</a>, it's like music to my ears. ❤😊

I had planted hazelnut trees back in 2017. In the last year or so they've been producing. But the squirrels won't leave them alone!! Stealing lots of them. But those little squirrels actually compensated me with walnut trees by squirreling away some walnuts....forgetting about them and I now have 2 small walnut trees on the go. But yeah, they'll likely steal those nuts one day too!

Very interesting. 🙂🇨🇦

Plantra's fiberglass stakes are great with their tree tubes .

Hazelnut’s May be an option. Nice update from you

If i were younger and owned more property, i would have grown Walnut trees. I have Oaks and Hickory trees on most of this new place i live at. In Florida i eliminated all the palm trees on my property, mainly because they are messy. All i had there was Live Oaks and Slash Pine trees

Have you ever looked into all the different grafted varieties that are out there? There are trees that produce high quality, big nuts that drop early (Like 'Jenny') Trees that produce equally nice nuts that drop mid season ('Qing') and others that drop late ('Black Satin') We have been growing chestnuts for about 30 years now, and we started out with seedlings too and eventually ended up grafting 95% of them to something bigger and better.

The chestnuts are looking amazing! I plan on getting some seeds soon and was wondering, what is your planting distance between each tree?

I would buy one. What about a few persimmon, paw paw and pecan trees?

Thanks Evan, What happened to all the dead fish?

Thanks for the video. At what point do they go in ground? Mine are about 8 inches tall now. I live in Michigan zone 6a.

We just moved to an older home that has a chestnut tree in the yard, with burrs. How should they be stored and do they have to be cooked before eating or just dry a little like pecans? I'm not far South of Memphis, TN and Chestnut trees are not common around here, it's the first one we've actually ever seen! Thanks for your help!

The last couple of years I would get a cereal bowls worth of chestnuts off my two little trees. This year I got almost six pounds (out of the crazy needle filled shell) and 95% of that was off of one tree. The second one is a rebel.

Here I am with the opposite problem. Always clearing Forrest.

Thanks for the video, if you want to simply open a chestnut without carrying gloves. Put your shoe on the edge of the chestnut and with the other shoe you break it open.

You may want to consider planting some “soft” mast trees such as persimmon.

I was thinking of a cheaper alternative to the tree tubes with perforated corrugated field tile??? Though it's black usually and seems to be about the same in per foot cost.

I planted sumac tree today with manure In Valparaiso, IN. maybe that can help your trees?

Is there any use for the thousands of prickly shells that you may have every year ?

Put honey bee hive in area when in bloom help with pollenization of trees

great roi on trees - try different varieties - dig big holes and mix in bag of cow manure and they will grow faster - you will have lots of product in just a few years

Awesome, great job!

What can you do to get a better fertilizing?

Do you need 2 different variety of sweet chestnut trees to produce fruit? Or 1 tree is enough as they are self pollinating.?

In Appalachia, these trees supported a big part of thee economy. They sold thee chestnuts ,ate them, and fattened up hogs on chestnut . And let me tell ya. If you've ever tried pork fattened out on chestnuts ,you'll flip. Lol. God bless. And hurray for bringing back thee chestnut. It is truly thee best lumber you can get.

They look really good 👍 Are you still considering any other nut trees? What kind are good for the pigs and maybe the goats and cattle? 🤔 Thanks for the update

The tree that grew fast and made a second trunk you should airlayer that second trunk and make a new tree, it will have the same maturity so will be ahead of other seedlings ready to plant this same year you take the layer.

I wonder if you can help them pollinate with pollen bags or whatever they call them. Take the pollen direct from tree to tree, instead of relying on the wind.

I don't know if they would grow in my area, but I would love to support your dream of repopulating these trees. I live in southern New Mexico. We don't have the rain that it looks like you do, but I do have an excellent well. I currently have 17 pecan trees that are doing very well. I think these would be an excellent addition to my land. I don't have the talent to sprout these trees but I do have a passion for growing trees from bare root or potted. If you sell them I would be interested in 10 to 20.

Have you hunted any this year if so what weight

What time of year do you plant them out

How are the fish going

Hi. Jim here. I wanna buy your Homestead..Lock--Stock--and Barrel. Name a Price , and make it Big !

How far north will these grow? Northern Indiana?

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire Jack Frost nipping at your nose Yuletide carols being sung by a choir And folks dressed up like Eskimos Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe Help to make the season bright Tiny tots with their eyes all aglow Will find it hard to sleep tonight

Ever grow any black walnut trees?

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have you tried growing other type of nuts ? Pecan ? Walnuts ?

What part of the country are you in? Im in western NC in the smokies. I know where several huge old chestnuts are- there are still some around.

Are you fertilizing the trees?

Did you stick a few hazel or filbert trees around just to see what happened?

Hello. I wonder, What state are you in? I've started all kinds of nut trees from seed, but my chestnuts keep molding when hardening off in the fridge!? I dry them out in the sun for 2-3 weeks before bagging them up in peatmoss,,, but I never have them root while in the fridge,,, just mold. What brand of peatmoss do you use? Is it treated for mold? (NE Ohio) I have better luck when I triple chop up oak leaves, & mix the chestnuts in a 5 gal bucket. Leave the 5 gallon bucket full outside in the garage for the winter. After 3 months, I place the buckets of nuts down the 65* cellar & they all start rooting, without any molding. I think, The tannins in the leaves prevents mold. While Producing nuts,,,,, Then the Chestnut Weevil will come,,, hatch out of the ground like a Japanese Beetle, fly up, lay a million eggs on the catkins, & destroy all of the growing nuts!! Just like a house fly on a dead possum! One year, before I started preventative measures, I had 2-4 grubs/ maggots in each & every nut, & that's before they hit the ground! & at least one maggot in every white oak nut that fell. & I had 100's of gallons of white oak & burr oak nuts that I raked up, hoping to harvest. Thousands of maggots came eating their way out,, totally destroying the nuts. Have Fun,,,,, ;>)

what type of gloves do you use? cotton, nytrile, rubber, leather... those burrs poke through.

Where canni purchase seedlings? Thx