About

New Owners Kelley and John Tarr Purchased the Chestnut Farm in February of 2024 They are very excited to continue growing and nurturing the Chestnut Trees, located just outside of Newington, Georgia. We expect Nuts to be Available by Mid September of 2024. We will be launching our new Website soon. Check back for details

We have around 500 Dunstan Chestnut trees. The Dunstan was developed by Robert Dunstan by crossing a blight free American chestnut with several Chinese varieties. The result is a nice mostly Chinese chestnut that is easy to peel. In 2019 we harvested 300 pounds of chestnuts and in 2020 we harvested over 1200 lb!  In 2021 we were hit by a late frost and only had 300 pounds to sell.  So since we cannot control the weather, when you order we will fill the orders first come first serve and refund any order we cannot fill giving you the option to buy another size first. Please bear with us as we learn how to best market our nuts.

 

Here is a drone video of our farm earlier this spring (2022)

We are members of the Chestnut Growers of America organization.  This link takes you to their website’s recipe page and you can see the many things you can make with chestnuts.

Recently several people have contacted me with questions about chestnut farming in the south.  So I decided to share what I have learned about it in the 10 years we have been in operation.  I have a Youtube channel called “Deep South Chestnut Farmer” where I have started to put up what we do in a series of very amateurish videos.  Hopefully I will get better at it. 🙂 Click on the link and subscribe!

Chestnut Recipes

Here is also a link to the recipe page of the Chestnut Hill Nursery page where we purchased our trees:

More Chestnut Recipes

Many, Many more chestnut recipes

Recipe for Capezzoli di Venere (Chocolate Chestnut Truffles)

Here is some feedback from our eBay account:

Dunstans arrived in great condition. Second year I’ve bought chestnuts from this seller. Highly recommend AAA+.

Chestnuts were very fresh and tasty. Great communication and rapid shipping. Will look forward to get more next season. Tks.

Some feedback from our website sales:

Cindy & I tried some last night, and they were incredible. Please feel free to use our endorsement in any way you see fit.
We ordered chestnuts from 5 different states, and it wasn’t even close.