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5 Blackberry Varieties for Deer
Soft mast species, like blackberries, can add cover for protection from predators and the elements as well as added nutrition for whitetails.
Add Diversity and Fill Nutritional Gaps with These Trees for Deer
Chestnut Hill Outdoors offers an array of soft mast species to supplement nutritional gaps that are not filled by hard mast species.
Why Dunstan Chestnuts Are a Go-To Tree for Whitetail Hunters
For deer hunters looking to improve habitat, create a reliable food source and attract more whitetails to their property, few trees have earned more attention in recent years than the Dunstan Chestnut.
Get a Head-Start on Next Year’s Trees
Get tips on how to keep your trees alive over winter after you’ve planted, and find out where you can get trees shipped directly to your home.
The Best Trees for Deer
What are the best trees to plant on your deer hunting dirt? Learn the trees deer love the most and which varieties are best for certain areas.
Deer Love Chestnuts
Learn about the worst ecological disaster in American history, and how a new blight-resistant chestnut filled the nutritional gap.
Top 4 Food Plot Seeds, Trees and Implements for 2023
Grow your best food plots with these new seeds, trees and an implement.
These Trees Are Magnets for Deer
Unlike oaks, these trees bloom later, and those crops contain larger, nutritionally superior nuts with four times the carbohydrates of a white oak acorn, 2.5 times the protein, only a fraction of the fat, and no bitter tannins.
Filling the Nutritional Gap for White-tailed Deer
With the decimation of the American Chestnut came a gap in several supply and food chains, but a new blight-resistant chestnut was created.