Welcome to Lincoln Oakes Nursery

To shop our year-end sale click on the tab Conservation Days Sale located on the left side of this page.

If you are a retail customer located outside of North Dakota visit our retail website to order. Click on link www.lincolnoakesnursery.com

ND residents order on the Conservation Days Sale tab located on the left to pre-order on left-over stock. Indicate pickup at nursery or delivery via shipping. Shipping is available for potted items, but a total of 40 pots must be ordered can vary varieties. Check with nursery for prices on pot shipping. Pickup starting may15th 2017.

Out of state customers place order at www.lincolnoakesnursery.com

LINCOLN-OAKES NURSERY, is owned and operated by the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts.

The "LINCOLN" unit of the Nursery had its beginning in the early 1930's as the Mandan Nursery under the supervision of the Bureau of Plant Industry. It was both a production nursery and a plant testing facility. In 1935 it was transferred to the Soil Erosion Service. One month later, the agency's name was changed to the Soil Conservation Service. The Mandan Nursery was moved to an area between Bismarck and Mandan and called the Heart River Nursery. The Soil Conservation Service moved it to its present location - on the parade grounds of the Fort Lincoln Military Post. In 1953 the Department of Agriculture discontinued all Soil Conservation Service nurseries and the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts agreed to assume the operation of the 355 acre Fort Lincoln unit south of Bismarck, North Dakota.

The "OAKES" unit of the Nursery had its beginning in the late 1930's by the United States Forest Service south of Oakes, North Dakota. It was closed in 1942 and the nursery was not used for several years. In 1947, the North Dakota Association of Soil Conservation Districts purchased the Oakes Nursery and has operated the 180 acre nursery since that time.