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3 – Persimmon

3 – White Oak

3 – Red Mulberry

Wholesale prices on this would be around $100+, retail potted around $270+

This package was picked out to meet the need for wildlife support as well as feeding domestic livestock. All three of these trees will produce copious amounts of carbohydrates for your livestock or white tail population from summer mulberry drop, to fall acorns and even into winter with persimmon. Perfect for packing on some fat for both wild and domestic critters. From the homesteader wanting to feed most any domestic livestock, to the bugout location, or hunting camp. These three trees will bring significant value to your property. This package is best grown in a fantastic wide range of zones 5-9. Conservation Grade bare root plants 12″ tall.

Imagine pork fed on mulberry in the summer while finished on persimmon and acorns in the fall… Delicious! Check out this link from Hobby Farms for an article on finishing pigs on Acorns, Persimmon, and Mulberries.

This is the exact three species I am personally using to plant between paddocks specifically for the purpose of moving the needle towards being able to be 100% self sufficient on our own land while fattening livestock with good healthy carbohydrate rich tree crops that provide year after year.

*note* -While White Oak does produce lower tannin acorns, please be careful overdoing it with oaks in ruminant grazing areas. 

American Persimmon – Diospyros virginiana 

USDA 4-9
American Persimmon has an absolutely stunning flavor that is rich, deep, sweet and complex.  A perfectly ripe persimmon can have a taste like caramel with hints of tangerine and heavy cream with a texture like rich custard. Ripens around Thanksgiving and in cold years, the trees are known to hold their fruit deep into the winter.  Very hardy tree, adapts to a broad range of soils and conditions, can tolerate a lot of pressure from weeds and browse, drought and flood tolerant.  There are both males and females (unknown when 1st and 2nd year seedlings), so you need at least a few trees to be guaranteed fruit. Bare root seedling Conservation Grade 12″.

 

White Oak – Quercus alba

USDA 5-9
If I had to pick one oak to rule them all, it would be the venerable White Oak. Some of the best firewood, lumber and wildlife feed value of all the oaks. It’s one of the best oaks to plant in areas you want to feed white tail deer. Coupled with the American Persimmon, this is a powerful duo for any homestead, farm, or bugout location. The white oak is very long lived and a beautiful shade tree prized in landscaping for it’s form and fall color.  This species should produce acorns at 20 years old and continue for hundreds of years. This is one of the backbone species of the carbohydrate crops I am planting for long term livestock feed personally. And I can’t think of anything currently available that beats the white oak for finishing pork in a forest. Bare root seedling Conservation Grade 12″.

 

Red Mulberry – Morus rubra

USDA 5-10

Anybody who knows me knows I love mulberries. I normally focus on the leaf of the non-native white mulberry for feeding livestock. But this native red mulberry is going to serve a different purpose. When considering what to plant out in a silvopasture system to feed livestock (especially pigs) then this native tree really shines.  This is one of the backbone species of the carbohydrate crops I am planting for long term livestock feed personally. Bare root seedling Conservation Grade 12″.