by Jules Smith | May 16, 2018 | eSprout
This past Arbor Day, April 27, 125 Kanawha County, WV students from Mary Ingles Elementary School and DuPont Middle School participated in an Arbor Day celebration at the Blue Creek Mining operation on Campbell’s Creek, south of Charleston, WV. Tents were set up on...
by Jules Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | eSprout, Uncategorized
This year, TACF is initiating a range-wide search for surviving American chestnuts in the forest. From Maine to Alabama, our chapters are working on plans to capture thousands of new sources of American chestnut never used in our breeding programs. New American...
by Jules Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | eSprout
On April 7, a snowy Saturday in northeastern Ohio, TACF’s Ohio Chapter hosted a Chestnut Growers’ Workshop at the Trumbull County Ohio State University (OSU) Extension Office along the shores of Mosquito Creek Lake in Cortland, Ohio. There was a full house of about...
by Jules Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | eSprout
When American chestnut hybrids growing in an orchard contract the blight and are cut down, they will re-sprout and re-grow after this happens. So to promote a particular tree, encouraging it to grow faster and stronger, stumps that are close to these healthier trees...
by Jules Smith | Apr 16, 2018 | eSprout
Among the things Maryland Chapter members enjoy – besides weeding in orchards when temperatures are in the 90s and deburring seeds with the tips of spikes from the burs imbedded in their fingers – is giving presentations on chestnut restoration. In March,...
