by Jules Smith | Mar 18, 2019 | eSprout
On February 26 and March 7, volunteers from the Southwest branch of the VA-TACF Chapter came out to the Price Research Farm in Meadowview, VA to help with spring seed sowing. Over 7,500 BC3F3 seeds, harvested in the fall, were sown for a variety of projects, including...
by Jules Smith | Mar 18, 2019 | eSprout
On February 9, about 30 MD-TACF Chapter members and volunteers planted 4,000 5th generation hybrid chestnuts in a greenhouse located on the property of the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park. This was the first large chestnut planting...
by Jules Smith | Mar 18, 2019 | eSprout
On March 7, Dr. Jennifer Koslow, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at EKU, volunteered 15 students in her “Chestnuts and Change in Appalachia” class to plant 426 chestnut seeds. The course is comprised of students in EKU’s Honor’s College who are not science...
by Jules Smith | Mar 18, 2019 | eSprout
At the beginning of this year, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released a report entitled Forest Health and Biotechnology: Possibilities and Considerations. The report was the culmination of more than one year’s worth of public...
by Jules Smith | Feb 22, 2019 | External News
“The loss of the nuts ended a way of life and brought economic hardship to many. ‘The blight was hard on people for chestnuts were used as money at the stores,’ Max Thomas said. Thomas was not alone in his belief that the death of chestnuts helped destroy a...
