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Why Water Is One of the Most Important Resources on a Chestnut Farm
A few weeks ago, we walked out into the orchard after a long spell of extremely hot weather and no rain. Kentucky had given us a good, rainy summer. Then, almost overnight, the rain just stopped. The burrs were still sizing on the trees, and our permanent irrigation system is going in next year. So…
Maps, Forms, and Familiar Faces for Chestnut Farmers
What We Learned From Our Local FSA, NRCS and Forestry Teams A while back, we found ourselves at the desk with a USDA aerial map of our farm spread out in front of us — field boundaries traced in yellow, our creeks and river bends in blue, and a growing stack of questions we didn’t…
Building the Runway: Why United Chestnuts Invested in Chestnut Growers of America’s Future
On our farm lab at EBB Farms in Kentucky, we help plenty of people with personalized farm tours to learn about chestnut farming, create guides to educate those new to the industry, produce the Branching Out: Growing Together podcast, write blogs on a variety of topics and support chestnut farmers with marketing. This work helps our customers, of course, but it also strengthens our regional market.
Grants for Chestnut Farmers: What’s Actually Open in 2026
Melanie walks the 200 acres at EBB Farms — planted rows, bare ground, and the grant program that got her thinking about both
Chestnut Granola Recipe: Proof Chestnuts Belong on Your Breakfast Table
This homemade chestnut granola recipe folds Treeborn’s roasted chestnut chips into a crunchy oat base — naturally sweet, fiber-rich, and ready in under two hours. Chestnuts don’t wait for you to be ready. By the time most people start searching for what to do with them, it’s December, the good batches are already claimed, and…
What Value-Added Chestnut Products Actually Look Like
If you’re a chestnut grower wondering whether your five-acre block can ever feel like a real business, this is the conversation worth having. Value-added chestnut products are quietly rewriting the math of small chestnut orchards. Underneath the question of “what can I make from my nuts?” though, is a quieter one. How do I turn…
Chestnuts as a Long-Term Farm Investment
We hear versions of this question constantly: Is this actually worth it? I have 10 acres, or 30, or 50. I’m thinking about chestnuts. But I’m not a farmer. And I don’t want to wait a decade to find out I made a mistake. It’s a fair question. And the honest answer is: yes, it…
Selling Chestnuts: Know Your Market First
One of the most common questions we hear from new growers is also one of the most important: where am I actually going to sell these? It’s asked by someone with a few acres in the ground, staring down a seven-year runway to first real harvest. It’s also asked by experienced growers who suddenly have…
Chestnut Tree Pruning: Why It Can’t Wait
Folks usually come to me with the logistical questions first — what variety to plant, what it’ll yield, how soon they’ll harvest. All fair. But the practice that quietly decides more than almost any of those rarely makes the list: pruning. If there’s one thing a visit to a chestnut orchard in Chile drove home…
Why Plant Chestnuts on Your Farm?
Chestnut farming might not be the first thing that comes to mind when you’re thinking about what to do with a few extra acres. But for a growing number of growers, landowners, and career-changers across the eastern United States, it’s becoming one of the most exciting decisions they’ve ever made. And once you dig into…
Chestnut Farm Succession Planning: Built to Last
If you’ve ever stood in a young chestnut row and wondered who’ll be there when these trees finally bear, you’re already doing succession work. So that’s really what chestnut farm succession planning is. Not paperwork. Not the LLC. Instead, it’s the slow daily work of growing the people who will love this land. The Question…
The Name on the Gate — Why Naming Your Farm Matters
The EBB Confession: How Our Farm Name Started We didn’t back into the name EBB Farms by accident—we loved it from the start. It stood for our dreams: Expect Big Bucks, with a perfect double meaning. At the time, we were imagining a place that might make a couple bucks and give us a lot of…