TREES & Nuts

Trees is the beginning of everything, including creating the most fertile soils after the ice age 12000 years ago.
Nuts are a core part of ecosystem fertility accumulation, storage, and movement.

Our tree projects:

We have various trails with low maintenance and close to nature nut growing in open space, in forest openings and under canopies by planting and direct seeding.
Nut species: Castanea sativa, Juglans regia, J.nigra, J. ailantyifolia J.cordiformis, Corylus avellana, C. colurna, C. americana, Carya laciniosa. and Staphylea pinnata

Sweet chestnut (Castanea sativa), an introduction project in Latvia 2020.-

Private chestnut introduction project to obtain Northern Europe climate-adapted cultivars for nut and timber production. The first stage is to create a chestnut genetic pool from seedlings from the most similar climate conditions available. Seedlings are planted in several locations to test their climate adaptation and deer resistance

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Walnuts (Juglans) on the farm

There are several walnut species planted around in the farm in field and forest conditions.

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Hazels (Corylus)

There are a lot of native hazelnut bushes all around the farm. Hera even lives a hazel dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) .

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Yew (Taxus baccata) conservation

We are part of a private Latvian yew conservation project in a few nature protection areas.

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