Regional Science Coordinator Leila Pinchot, working with Greenwich Land Trust Environmental Director Dan Barrett and Board Member Dick Lane, as well as other volunteers, have planted a test orchard in a field off Stanwich Road. If all works as expected, we hope to use the site to plant backcross hybrids starting in spring 2008.
Greenwich Times Staff Correspondent Meredith Blake wrote a great article covering the event as published in the on-line version of the Greenwhich Times.
Greenwich Land Trust Environmental Director Dan Barrett and Board Member Dick Lane examine new seedling growth on American chestnuts planted as nuts earlier this sping. Photographer Leila Pinchot [click on photo to see larger version]
Greenwich Land Trust Executive Director Van Parker explains the Chestnut Story as Board President Bill Boysen and Greenwich Times reporter Meredith BLake listen. Photographer Leila Pinchot [click on photo to see larger version]
