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...
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 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,...
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...
All over the State of Connecticut, CT-TACF members are getting their bucket trucks, orchard ladders, and thick rubber gloves to harvest the backcross nuts. Reports coming in indicate success with the harvest. The Enfield team wasn't finished with the analysis,...
