by Jules Smith | Dec 14, 2017 | eSprout
The Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard, located in Kingwood, West Virginia, was established in 2013 on abandoned farmland owned by the Preston County Board of Education. Each year, Preston High School’s Greenhouse Instructor, Laah Wolford, have the...
by Jules Smith | Dec 14, 2017 | eSprout
Last fall, on my way back home from Eastern Europe, I stopped in Switzerland for meetings at the Swiss Federal Institute of Forests, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf on the outskirts of Zürich. In the evening, while wandering around Zürich’s altstadt,...
by Jules Smith | Nov 15, 2017 | eSprout
In its fall lineup, The Asheville Museum of Science’s (AMOS) Science Pub series included a presentation by TACF’s director of science, Dr. Jared Westbrook. The series is a free monthly science event and is hosted at The Collider in Asheville. The Fall 2017...
by Jules Smith | Nov 15, 2017 | eSprout
On a crisp autumn day in apple country near Hendersonville, NC, a group of 15 hearty “chestnutters” met former TACF geneticist and stalwart volunteer Paul Sisco for a tour of the Pryor orchard. Managed by Paul and the Carolinas Chapter since 2005, along with the...
by Jules Smith | Nov 15, 2017 | eSprout
At the end of the day, all the chestnuts were eaten and the children used up all the leaves and feathers creating nature weavings. Even the chestnut beer was gone! The 8th Annual Chestnut Restoration Celebration was a roaring success. More than 300 attended on a...
by Jules Smith | Oct 17, 2017 | eSprout
This year’s annual meeting in South Portland, Maine on October 6-7, was a well-attended and hugely successful event. Because so much took place over the course of a few days, we thought it would be nice to share photos from the various educational sessions,...
