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2019 Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Chapter of TACF

The Annual Meeting of the Connecticut Chapter of TACF will be held on Sunday, March 31, 2019 at 10:00 AM (Opening reception at 9:30) at the CT Forest & Park Association’s Headquarters, 16 Meriden Rd., Rockfall, CT.  Our guest speaker will be Dr. Jared Westbrook, TACF’s Director of Science, who will present “Finishing Selection in Backcross Seed Orchards and Diversifying Transgenic Populations”.  Also, we will be having an optional tour of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s chestnut orchards where the Clapper and Graves trees are located.  Those who want to attend can meet at the CFPA parking lot at 7:30 to car pool down, or just meet us at the CAES Lockwood Farm at 890 Evergreen Avenue in Hamden at 8:00.

This event has been preapproved for 1 CEU credit for Connecticut DEEP’s Certified Forest Practitioners Program.

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Save this for when you plant your chestnuts! All you need is a deep pot, well-draining soil, and proper seed orientation for success. 🌱

Want to learn more about growing chestnuts? Visit this link to learn more: tacf.org/growing-chestnuts/

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I appreciate the effort, but you’re just planting a tree that will die young.

Another way is put out a bunch of chestnuts, walnuts, acorns etc and let the squirrels plant them (they won't eat them all)!

Where do you get the American chestnuts?

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I highly recommend checking out this article by Robert Foster, in which he reminisces about the time he helped save a large, standing American chestnut tree. He also shares an older article that tells the full story of the tree and the effort to preserve it. The original piece, published in American Forests magazine, is titled “Saving Something of Value” by Herbert E. McLean and is copied below his introduction.

Click the following link to check it out: rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree

#americanchestnut #nature #explore #fighttosave #story
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I highly recommend checking out this article by Robert Foster, in which he reminisces about the time he helped save a large, standing American chestnut tree. He also shares an older article that tells the full story of the tree and the effort to preserve it. The original piece, published in American Forests magazine, is titled “Saving Something of Value” by Herbert E. McLean and is copied below his introduction. Click the following link to check it out: https://rfoster.substack.com/p/one-big-tree #americanchestnut #nature #explore #fighttosave #story
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