Free American Chestnut Seed (not blight resistant)

American Chestnut Restoration provides seed nuts to people who request them, free of charge. Being a member is not required to receive nuts, but we will send nuts to members first. We will send nuts to as many non-members as possible, but may run out depending on demand. We will contact you by email in the fall or spring prior to mailing to confirm that you are ready to receive them.

These nuts are pure American Chestnuts, not GMO or hybrids, so they will not have resistance to chestnut blight. We recommend using these nuts to start your own home planting, and once the transgenic trees are available from ESF, you will be able to pollinate your trees or plant a transgenic tree among them to produce your own blight resistant nuts.

We also have a nut exchange at our annual meeting where anyone who has nuts to give away will bring them, and all attendees are welcome to take nuts for their own plantings.