by TACF | Feb 23, 2008
This first year of the Great Mountain Forest orchard on Under Mountain Road in Falls Village provides a new orchard for CT/TACF and on-the-ground education for me and local students. The most satisfying part of this experience is the inclusion of the Housatonic Valley...
by TACF | May 19, 2007
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...
by TACF | Aug 6, 2013
It is really easy to grow chestnuts in tree tubes or other pots ? all that is required are the appropriate pots, soil mix, nuts, labelling, and the initiative to plant and care for the young trees. Planting in pots is great if you like to have gifts for friends, or...
by TACF | Jun 1, 2007
by Leila Pinchot I visited the orchard today, and I was delighted to see that 15 of the 20 nuts have sent up shoots (see attached photo). Nuts can sometimes wait until July to sprout, so we may have even more seedlings develop. Thank you all for planting the orchard,...
by TACF | Feb 4, 2008
Fay Abrahamson of the Guilford Courier writes “Last year, the American Chestnut Foundation approached the town with a request: to use a section of a former community garden at Nut Plains Park to bring back healthy chestnut trees. Using enetics and plant...
