Badgersett Research Corporation:
Woody Agriculture research and development

Welcome to our new website! Please bear with us as we phase in the new site over the next couple of months. If you have any questions or comments, you'll find the webmaster's email at the bottom of the page.

With roots going back to 1978, Badgersett Research Corporation works on bringing "Woody Agriculture" into the mainstream world of full scale staple food production. Besides selling the nuts we grow, we breed and sell seedlings of hybrid hazelnuts and hybrid chestnuts, and we are involved in all aspects of commercializing these crops, from developing machinery and harvest procedures to consumer products and marketing.

Start here if you're new to Badgersett for information about who we are and what we do.

What is Woody Agriculture? An introduction to the concept of woody ag and its economic and environmental benefits.
Basic info & FAQ: Introduction to our hybrid hazelnuts & chestnuts and why we think the future of the world is nuts
More info: About Badgersett and our CEO, Philip Rutter; planting hazelnuts and chestnuts; back issues of our newsletter, Root & Branch
Way more info: Essays and lectures on Woody Agriculture

Visit the weblog for current news about what is happening on our farm. This is for people who are already familiar with Badgersett and for those of you who have your own chestnut or hazelnut crops.

We sell several varieties of our own delicious, homegrown, pesticide- and herbicide-free nuts. Harvest is in late summer and early fall, and nuts sell out very soon thereafter. If you want to spend your holidays roasting chestnuts over an open fire while munching on fresh hazelnut cookies, place your orders early, as we always sell out!

Hazelnut and chestnut orders

You've read the info and given it some thought (and perhaps sampled some of our nuts), and you'd like put in your own plants. Like our nuts, plants sell out quickly, so place your orders far in advance of the next planting season.

Plant catalog
Plant order form

Lost? Go to the old homepage or email the webmaster.