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By Bill Adamsen Director of The American Chestnut Foundation President, CT Chapter TACF Wilton, CT |
With the rush of autumn harvest over, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF
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We love helping students get excited about, and involved in, the American chestnut tree!  0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Save this for when you plant your chestnuts! All you need is a deep pot, well-draining soil, and proper seed orientation for success. 🌱 7 CommentsComment on Facebook I appreciate the effort, but you’re just planting a tree that will die young. Another way is put out a bunch of chestnuts, walnuts, acorns etc and let the squirrels plant them (they won't eat them all)! Where do you get the American chestnuts?
I highly recommend checking out this article by Robert Foster, in which he reminisces about the time he helped save a large, standing American chestnut tree. He also shares an older article that tells the full story of the tree and the effort to preserve it. The original piece, published in American Forests magazine, is titled “Saving Something of Value” by Herbert E. McLean and is copied below his introduction. 0 CommentsComment on Facebook |