by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
Growing up I was fortunate enough to experience wild surviving American chestnut trees. I can recall with great clarity helping my grandfather pick nuts from their thorny burs as he searched for viable seeds for next season’s plantings, all the while...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
On May 15, “Chestnut Day” at the Butler Montessori School in Darnstown, Maryland, MD-TACF Chapter member Gary Carver led a program to plant American chestnut trees and talk with young students about the trees and the work of TACF. The first group of 40 first, second,...
by Jules Smith | Jul 8, 2019 | eSprout
It is the Fourth of July as I write this article about George Washington Bush and the two largest American chestnut trees in North America. He was a free black man born in Pennsylvania in 1779 of an African father and an Irish woman and became a pioneer who settled in...
by Jules Smith | May 17, 2019 | eSprout
The Drake Outdoor Leadership Club (DOLC) is an organization at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa whose mission is to allow students the opportunity to explore the outdoors and nature with many outings. Through hiking, rock climbing, conservation work, and more, we...
by Jules Smith | May 17, 2019 | eSprout
On March 23, 2019, a long-dreamed-of and long-planned-for day finally arrived – the opening of the Children’s Garden at the State Botanical Garden of Georgia in Athens. Designated the Alice H. Richards Children’s Garden, in honor of the former Botanical Garden board...
by Jules Smith | May 17, 2019 | eSprout
On April 27, 2019, Cian Evans and Doug Gillis of the Carolinas Chapter greeted folks visiting a TACF display at the Montreat Native Plant Sale in Montreat, NC to talk and learn about the American chestnut and its restoration. Many had some knowledge of the tree though...
