Grafted Honey Locust — Millwood (fall 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.

The most well-known of the honey locust cultivars for pods. Yields a high-sugar pod, though not quite as high as Calhoun. Does seem to yield significantly higher volumes than Calhoun. Probably the best bet for high yields anywhere in USDA zone 6 and warmer. 

Below is a description of the original tree: “The original Millwood was a 6-inch tree located near Lake Junuluska, North Carolina, and bore pods with a sugar content of 31 percent (dry weight basis). The parent tree was entirely thornless when first examined but later produced a few thorns on a trunk sprout and a partly thorny root-sucker.”

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  November or early December as a bare root tree.  If your ground is likely to be frozen by that time, we recommend a spring shipment.  

*Restricted and not available for shipment to Arizona or California.

Local pickup options:

December 2 from 9am-5pm at TFG shop on 2363 Stumptown Rd, Lancaster, PA 17602 

December 5 from 8am-5pm at Rodale Institute on Siegfriedale Rd, Kutztown, PA 19530 (at Beyond Grass and Grain)