Grafted Honey Locust — Calhoun (spring delivery)

Honey locust is in all likelihood the best species for ruminant silvopasture. They have a dappled canopy that lets a lot of light to forages beneath, and their pods drop from October through February and last for months on the ground. That’s exactly what is needed in a rotational grazing system, allowing one to stockpile several tons of high-energy pods to the acre. The one problem is their thorns, which can be long and vicious. These grafted trees will not have thorns, though in some cases the tree they were originally selected from may have had thorns, which means their progeny are more likely to have thorns as well, though folks with long-standing honey locust orchards in Virginia and Mississippi have told us that they do not have issues with seedlings becoming a nuisance. Honey locusts can produce pods without being fertilized by another individual.

Calhoun: Most likely the same as Big Fatty. In what little data we have on the tree, it yields the highest percentage sugar pods, but less heavily than Millwood. It does seem to yield some every year, even though the quantity will fluctuate. Here’s a description of the original tree: “The original Calhoun was a thorny, 15-inch tree found growing in a woods near Gadsden, Alabama, bearing pods with 36 percent sugar (dry weight basis). This parent tree had thorny lower branches but the top of the tree was thornless.”

Height: 2-5′

Volume discounts: 4-9 trees for $48, 10-24 trees for $35. 25-99 trees for $30, 100+ trees for $24

Shipping: This product will ship out in March or early April as a bare root tree depending on your region.  If you want to plant earlier and your ground is not yet frozen by early December, consider a fall shipment. Any trees over 6′ will be headed back to just under 6’ for shipping since shipping boxes longer than 6’ becomes much more expensive. Trees picked up will not be topped but remain at full height.

Local pickup: March 13, 2026 from 9am-5pm at TFG shop on 2363 Stumptown Rd, Lancaster, PA 17602