Bare Root Plants for Sale
Thank you for your interest and happy growing!
PLEASE READ: If you are local or regional to the Finger Lakes area (able to pick up in person), feel free to reach out to hello@edibleacres.org with a clear wish list of plants and we will work to arrange a pickup.
We update our inventory on March 1st for Spring bare root sales and September 1st for Fall bare root sales. If you are visiting this page and see everything as sold out, please make a note in your calendar to revisit at our next ‘opening’ and pick up some lovely plants!
Our Fall offerings tend to have higher numbers of trees, shrubs, cuttings and a medley of our abundant and fall appropriate herbaceous perennials. Spring offerings will generally have more herbaceous perennials, grasses, etc and a smaller number of trees and shrubs. We weight our inventory in large part based on seasonal appropriateness for establishment. We hope you understand and visit again if you don’t find what you are looking for this time.
If you are super eager to get plants now, we now have a Permaculture Nursery page that lists friends of ours with ethical and thoughtful growing practices. We strongly encourage you to check them out and get some awesome plants from them too!
TIP: Use the tags above to help filter our offerings by characteristic (ie. click on ‘fruit’ to find any fruit bearing plants we offer, etc.) As we add more and more it is a helpful way to find a plant to fit your goals…
Bitternut Hickory
Bitternut Hickory
Carya cordiformis
Bitternut Hickory is a beautiful and stately tree found quite often in northern yards as a hardy ornamental tree. The nuts are incredibly oil laden, some of the most oil rich of any of the Carya. The challenge is they are quite bitter as the name implies! We have friends working to collect huge numbers of these nuts in the fall and process them in oil presses to create a real alternative potential for Olive Oil in our cold climate. Perhaps planting some now is a worthwhile effort so in years to come you can be part of the cooking oil solution to your area! Or, plant a bunch and let the wildlife enjoy and fatten up for winter!
Hardiness:
Zone 4-9
