In 2019, a local producer signed up to be part of a white oak initiative through the University of Kentucky. Acorns were collected from the producers’ land in Cumberland County as the first step. Those acorns were then propagated, and seedlings formed. From those, they have established 20 progeny tests which was phase two, scattered throughout the eastern United States. Now, in phase three, the project is establishing seedling and grafted seed orchards. One of the grafts from a twig from the Cumberland County landowner is producing acorns at only three years post graft. Part of this third phase is getting landowners involved. They will be taking ten landowners to do a small pilot program on. The landowners will receive 50 seedlings from the Kentucky Division of Forestry. They will plant those and at 12 years old they will thin them out to 25 trees. Acorns from these sites will be provided back to the nursery. The impact will be the improvement of the white oak seedling quality and thus improved sustainability of the white oak.