First Annual Pig Roast at Otter Creek Farm
Come celebrate the season with an afternoon of delicious food, great company, and live music at Otter Creek Farm.
New England Grazing Network 2026 Luminary Roadshow with Trees for Graziers in New York
Join Joshua Greene, Director of Education for Trees for Graziers, for a full-day, hands-on workshop at Breadtree Farms exploring how well-designed silvopasture systems can improve livestock performance, farm resilience, and long-term profitability.
Variety Showcase
The Variety Showcase is a public tasting and community-building event produced by the Culinary Breeding Network and Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming. The event is dedicated to illuminating the importance of organic seed and advancing a more inclusive plant-breeding process that engages everyone across the food system.
NOFA VT — Opportunities for Integrating Tree Crops with Grazing Systems
Join Breadtree Farms to learn how they are stewarding 20,000+ food-producing trees and shrubs — including chestnut, hickory, oak, seaberry, apple, pear, mulberry, and persimmon — in orchards grazed by sheep and cattle. Together, we’ll tour their multi-function landscapes, hear about their ongoing research projects and learn about their mission to bolster food sovereignty and security, while fostering healthy ecosystems, biodiversity, and sequestering carbon.
2026 Northern Nut Growers Association Annual Meeting
This year the 117th Annual Conference of the Northern Nut Growers Association will be held at University of Massachusetts Campus in Amherst, MA. If you’re curious about tree crops and agroforestry, this is a wonderful opportunity to come get immersed! Breadtree will be presenting this year and will also host a field trip to our home farm.
2026 Forest & Field Festival
We’ll be tabling at Smokey House’s 1st annual Forest & Field Festival, a free community celebration of Vermont’s farms, forests, food, and local partnerships.
Boston Public Market Pop-Up
Pop-up roasting and selling our wares the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
OMDG Webinar 5
Join us for the 5th installment of our webinar series! We will share a simple spreadsheet we created to help other farmers model chestnut establishment costs and the implications of design decisions.
Spring 2025 Community Planting Day
Whether you're brand new to planting trees or an experienced orchardist, come join us for a day of spring planting!
Rhode to Regenerative (Speaking Engagement)
Noah will be on a panel discussing Multi-Functional Agroforestry, with our peers from Propagate and Sunset Farm. The event runs 9:00-5:00 on May 19-20 at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI, and focuses on agroforestry, ocean farming, and land-to-sea connections. Register here.
Regenerative NYC (Speaking Engagement)
Russell will be on a panel discussing Funding the Missing Middle: Supply Chain Infrastructure, with our colleagues from Terra Regenerative Capital and Walden Mutual. While the panel is 3:30-4:30 on the 23rd, the event runs all day on April 22nd and 23rd. Register Here
OMDG Webinar 4: Italy Report Out Round 2
For current and aspiring chestnut growers - come dive into the details of the processing facilities we visited on our November 2024 research trip to Italy.
OMDG Webinars — Italy Research Trip Report
Our team recently returned from a three week research trip to Italy and we learned a lot! We’ll report on our trip, share key takeaways we’re bringing to our facility’s design process, and dialogue about the future of chestnut processing in the U.S. We’re hosting two sessions so that everyone who’s expressed interest can make it live, and we’ll send out a recording for those who can’t.
Big River Chestnuts 4th Annual Chestnut Festival
Save the date for the 4th Annual Chestnut Festival @ Big River Chestnuts in Sunderland, MA! More details to come, always a good time.
(Thanks to Mike Amato of @forestgardenpodcast for the photo from last year’s festival)
Northern Nut Growers Association Meeting
This year the Joint Conference of the Northern Nut Growers Association and the Chestnut Growers of America will be held at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, NY. If you’re curious about tree crops and agroforestry, this is a wonderful opportunity to come get immersed! Breadtree will be presenting this year. More details to come! Register here.
Chestnut Blossom Open House & Picnic
Come visit Breadtree's oldest orchard in bloom right on the heels of the summer solstice! We’ll start with a tour of the orchard and answer all your tree crops questions (if we can!) and then go back down the hill for Otter Creek burgers.
Spring 2024 Community Planting Day
Whether you're brand new to planting trees or an experienced orchardist, come join us for a day of spring planting!
Hebron Preservation Society Presentation
Breadtree is invited to present to the Hebron Preservation Society. We'll start with the history of chestnuts in New York and globally, and then move on to the future that we see for chestnuts and other tree crops in Washington County.