| February 10th | Connecticut Chapter (CT-TACF) Board Meeting from 10am-1pm. Woodbridge Community Center, all are welcome to attend. Contact Bill Adamsen or Leila Pinchot for more information. First order of business will be review and approval of last meeting's minutes. |
| February 22nd – 25th | Connecticut Flower and Garden Show at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Come help tell others about CT-TACF. Contact Pat van de Kamp or Leila Pinchot for more information. |
| April 14th (April 15th Rain Date) |
Salem Land Trust. Come help plant our second year's crop of CT-TACF Backcross Chestnuts in the Salem Orchard. Contact David Bingham or Leila Pinchot for more information. |
| April 18th | The Stamford Museum and Nature Center will be doing a Chestnut tree planting during their “Take a Hike” event. Times are at 1:30pm and 3:00. See the Stamford Museum and Nature Center web site Contact Pat van de Kamp for more information. |
| April 21st | Woodbridge Land Trust. Come help plant our second year's crop of CT-TACF Backcross Chestnuts in the Woodbridge Orchard. Contact Philip Arnold or Leila Pinchot for more information. |
| April 21st & 28th | Orchard planting at the Northern CT Land Trust Swann Farm in Ellington. Please contact Leila Pinchot or Gayle Kida for more information. |
| April 22nd | Earth Day |
| April 27th | National Arbor Day |
| April 28th | Our Earth Day Festival at Earth Place. For more information contact Pat van de Kamp. |
| May 5th | Guilford Conservation Commission Test Orchard Planting – Saturday, May 5. For more information contact Leila Pinchot. |
| May 29th | Great Mountain Forest Orchard Planting – Tuesday, May 29th. For more information contact Leila Pinchot. |
| July 14th | Salem Work Party With a rain date of the 15th. For more information contact David Bingham. |
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We love helping students get excited about, and involved in, the American chestnut tree!
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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/
#planting #growing #americanchestnut #plantingseason #explore
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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?
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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