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Special Membership Promotion

For the period of the Hartford Flower Show (February 21-24, 2008) the Connecticut Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) is offering a special membership promotion – Enhanced Regular Memberships which include gifts of recently published and hard-to-find books celebrating the American chestnut.

This offer applies to Connecticut Residents only.

Regular Membership (benefits below) at $40 can be enhanced with one of two options.

  • The Bark and New Leaf (quarterly TACF Newsletter and periodic Chapter Newsletter)
  • The Journal of The American Chestnut Foundation (semi-annual scientific Journal)
  • Membership in the Connecticut Chapter of TACF
  • Access to expert advice on growing and caring for American chestnut trees.
  • Opportunities to participate in local breeding and research activities.
  • The opportunity to purchase American chestnut seed and seedling kits.
  • Help ensure the future health of the eastern American forest ecosystem.
  • Invitations to attend meetings and meet scientists working on chestnut research.
  • A welcome to visit, tour, and/or volunteer at TACF and CT-TACF research farms

Option1 – Enhanced Regular Membership at $60 total – all the benefits of the Regular Membership plus “Mighty Giants – an American Chestnut Anthology” (in softcover — list price $24.95)

Option 2 – Enhanced Regular Membership at $80 total – all the benefits of the Regular Membership plus “Mighty Giants – an American Chestnut Anthology” and “American Chestnut – Life, Death, and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree” by Susan Freinkel (in hardcover — list price $27.50)

You can join by completing a membership at the show, or by registering directly at the TACF Website.

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Well done West Virginia TACF Chapter !!! * * * *

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Save this for when you plant your chestnuts! All you need is a deep pot, well-draining soil, and proper seed orientation for success. 🌱

Want to learn more about growing chestnuts? Visit this link to learn more: tacf.org/growing-chestnuts/

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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?

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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.

Click the following link to check it out: rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree

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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. Click the following link to check it out: https://rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree #americanchestnut #nature #explore #fighttosave #story
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