by Jules Smith | Apr 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Have you taken a photograph of an American chestnut or American chestnut hybrid that should be displayed on the cover of Chestnut magazine? Enter it in TACF’s 2020 American Chestnut Photo Contest! Send your best photo(s) to TACF by September 1, 2020 to enter the...
by Jules Smith | Jan 17, 2020 | eSprout
When people see my work, they usually ask me about the woods I use for carving. They want to know which wood is my favorite. I tell them my favorite is American chestnut wood. I also tell them that a person must be crazy to carve American chestnut. That elicits a...
by Jules Smith | Jan 9, 2020 | External News
In winter 2019 CBS News produced and aired a feature story about TACF and American chestnut restoration on their morning show, CBS This Morning. Crews from the network visited our Meadowview Research Farms on two occasions and spent hours capturing footage and...
by Jules Smith | Dec 18, 2019 | External News
It is hard to overstate the value and cultural importance of the American chestnut tree for those who came before us. The native hardwood was once so ubiquitous, it has been said, that a squirrel could travel from Maine to Georgia in the chestnut canopy. The largest...
by Jules Smith | Nov 18, 2019 | eSprout
On a cool and rainy fall day in mid-October, members of the Lyon Park Community in Arlington County planted a pair of American chestnuts, donated by the VA-TACF Chapter. These 6th generation hybrids represent a select few American chestnuts to be planted in the...
