by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2018 | eSprout
Come take an aerial tour of the Maryland Chapter’s newest seed orchard near Ellicott City, MD. The chapter recently put together a short video to show its volunteers the results of all their hard work. This seed orchard is located on two acres of farm land provided...
by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2018 | eSprout
In February 2018 our chapter received an inquiry from Lisa Collins, Environmental Science Teacher at Norfolk County Agricultural High School (NCAHS) asking if her students could work in our orchards as part of her forestry class. We were intrigued and inspired by the...
by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2018 | eSprout
Whether you’re working on something operational, like planting a backcross orchard, or something new and experimental, like research on small stem assays (SSAs), the key to success is having great volunteers! Case in point: TACF has been experimenting with SSAs as an...
by Jules Smith | Aug 15, 2018 | eSprout
On July 27, a group of chestnut researchers, Georgia and Tennessee Chapter members, and TACF staff convened at Berry College in Rome, Georgia. The purpose was to discuss southern germplasm conservation strategies, vegetative propagation of American chestnuts, and...
by Jules Smith | Aug 3, 2018 | External News
TACF’s Director of Restoration, Sara Fitzsimmons, had an article published recently about the work TACF is doing to restore the American chestnut tree. The article was requested by The Rewilding Institute, an organization whose mission is to “explore and...
