About
West Coast Chestnut is a family owned and operated farm and chestnut nursery based in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Over the past 30 years, we've grown chestnuts, hazelnuts, and blueberries as well as other crops. We're now focusing on making tissue culture chestnuts available to other growers across the U.S.
We began working on getting chestnut trees into tissue culture after watching our grafted chestnuts die after 5, 10, and even 20 years. No one could give us a solid answer on why this was happening and there weren't any scalable alternatives to grafted trees.
Tissue culture propagation is the norm in other permanent crops, but we couldn't find anyone producing tissue culture chestnuts. So, we decided to give it a try ourselves with some serious help from a few key experts. Fast forward 3 years, and we were successfully propagating baby Colossal Chestnuts through tissue culture. Now, we're focused on propagating additional varieties.