New Hampshire State Forest Nursery Now Selling Seedlings Online

CONCORD, NH — The state of New Hampshire’s forest nursery is now selling seedlings and other items online.

The nursery, which has been growing tree and shrub seedlings for more than 110 years, had more than 1,000 customers purchase seedlings, about 150,000 of them, during the first two weeks of the online store's operation.

The nursery has a new website, BuyNHSeedlings.com, which looks similar to the print catalog the department issues. More than 50 species are available for sale, including balsam fir, red oak, white spruce, black walnut seedlings, hazelnut, and ninebark shrubs.

During the past decade, the nursery received around 1,000 orders each year. Last year, orders increased to 2,500.

“Sales at the N.H. State Forest Nursery have increased dramatically over the last several years,” N.H. Division of Forests and Lands’ Chief of Forest Management Will Guinn said. “Much of this is due to a renewed interest in the outdoors as a result of the pandemic, as well as a desire to help mitigate climate change through planting trees to sequester and store carbon.”

Customers include organizations performing major reforestation projects to tree farmers to residents working on small landscaping projects.

Guinn said the online ordering process would better serve the increase in the influx of customers.

“Feedback has been overwhelmingly positive, with almost 95 percent choosing to use the online system,” he said.

For more information about New Hampshire’s State Forest Nursery, visit nh.gov/nhnursery.

To order seedlings and trees online, visit this link.

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