Old Forester Distillery Celebrates Earth Day by Completing a 5-Acre Oak Tree Nursery Planting

Written By Barbara Hurt

Article published by Distillery Trail on April 21, 2023

Timed to celebrate Earth Day 2023, the folks at Old Forester Distillery in Louisville, Kentucky planted white oak seedlings to make sure that they will never run out of oak barrels. The site sits on the edge of the Brown Forman Distillery site in Shively. The plantings started on this five-acre site in 2021, continued in 2022 and wrapped up this week with distillery volunteers.

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Barbara Hurt
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