by Jules Smith | Sep 16, 2019 | eSprout
On July 8, TACF staff and volunteers from the southwest branch of the TACF-VA Chapter braved the heat and humidity to inoculate over 3,300 B3F3 trees for this year’s small stem assay (SSA) at TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms. Seeds for the SSA were planted in...
by Jules Smith | Jul 24, 2019 | External News
Over four billion American chestnut trees have been killed as a result of an introduced pathogen, the chestnut blight. But recently, thanks to science and the hard work of TACF and our partners, transgenic blight‐tolerant American chestnut trees have been developed....
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
Growing up I was fortunate enough to experience wild surviving American chestnut trees. I can recall with great clarity helping my grandfather pick nuts from their thorny burs as he searched for viable seeds for next season’s plantings, all the while...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
On May 15, “Chestnut Day” at the Butler Montessori School in Darnstown, Maryland, MD-TACF Chapter member Gary Carver led a program to plant American chestnut trees and talk with young students about the trees and the work of TACF. The first group of 40 first, second,...
by Jules Smith | Jul 8, 2019 | eSprout
It is the Fourth of July as I write this article about George Washington Bush and the two largest American chestnut trees in North America. He was a free black man born in Pennsylvania in 1779 of an African father and an Irish woman and became a pioneer who settled in...
