Pawpaws sold in September at on-site pay-what-you-can farm stand and Ferguson Farmers Market booth; the 2024 crop ran to about 800 lb and sold out weekly.
Where to Buy Pawpaws in Missouri
9 verified places to buy or pick pawpaws in Missouri. Confirm availability before you visit. Pawpaw season is short.
Missouri sits well within the pawpaw's native range, and its nurseries and festivals make trees and fruit easy to come by. Forrest Keeling Nursery in Elsberry and Stark Bro's in Louisiana ship pawpaw trees, and the EarthDance Organic Farm School in Ferguson keeps an orchard and hosts the Ferguson Pawpaw Fest. Missouri pawpaws ripen from late August into early October, and the full season lets most varieties ripen well.
Orchard
1Festival
1Annual September harvest festival at the Ferguson Farmers Market, a morning event.
Nursery
5Online retail pawpaw orders are farm-pickup at Elsberry; wholesale RPM grower (17 pawpaw cultivars) ships nationally to the trade.
State seedling program; nominal cost; online ordering roughly February to May, Missouri residents first.
Missouri-native plant nursery; pawpaw stocked seasonally with waitlist when out.
Stark Bro's
Ships13 pawpaw varieties including licensed KSU cultivars; one-year survival guarantee.
PricingFree shipping on orders $99+
Sugar Creek Gardens
In stockSells the named cultivar Nyomi's Delicious Pawpaw (Asimina triloba).
Online
2Budde Farms (Etsy)
ShipsFamily-run Etsy shop selling 10-count packs of fresh pawpaw seed harvested from the Missouri Ozarks, shipped with tracking.
Etsy shop (Perennial Crops Nursery LLC); 2-year pawpaw seedlings from improved parent trees; ships year-round as available.
Nothing close enough?
Fresh pawpaws also move by mail in season, and frozen pulp ships year-round. See where to buy pawpaw fruit for the verified sellers that ship, typical prices, and how the short season works.
Pawpaw tree nurseries in Missouri
5 verified nurseries in Missouri sell pawpaw trees:
- Forrest Keeling Nursery in Elsberry
- Missouri Department of Conservation State Forest Nursery in Licking
- Missouri Wildflowers Nursery in Jefferson City
- Stark Bro's in Louisiana
- Sugar Creek Gardens in Kirkwood
Want to plant your own?
The nurseries above cover buying a tree in or shipped to Missouri. Plant at least two genetically different trees so they can cross-pollinate, and check whether pawpaw fruits where you live before you order.
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