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President’s Message
Joining TACF back in 2005 I brought with me little more than a passion for the idea of restoring the American chestnut to the landscape. I had grown up visiting my Grandmother's log cabin built of chestnut and those wonderful memories had inspired me to learn...
2013 CT Chapter Annual Meeting
[click for larger photo] deKoven House, Rockfall Foundation, Middletown, CT Join us on Saturday April 6th for the Annual Meeting of the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation at the Rockfall Foundation's deKoven House in Middletown, CT. We will have two...
2012 Summary Report on Orchard Operations
By Bill Adamsen Member CT Chapter TACF 2012 Summary Report on Orchard Operations The purpose of this report is to present the Connecticut Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation® summary of breeding orchard success following close of 2012. The Connecticut Chapter...
CT Chapter Director Passes
Long-time TACF Member and Woodbridge resident Dr. Robert A. Gregg, passed away November 28th after a long and active life at 94 years of age. Robert was active and involved in his many passions to the end! Dr. Gregg was a member of the CT Chapter of the American...
East Tennessee – New England Chestnut Connection
By Bill Adamsen President, CT Chapter TACF Dr. Paul Sisco, President of the Carolinas Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation sent this note last week. I enjoyed reading about the New England dispersed progeny of former Tennessean John Quillin Tilson assembling on...
Lecture – Rise and Fall of Two Great American Trees
By Bill Adamsen President, CT Chapter TACF A lecture at the Connecticut Historical Society in Hartford, by author and historian Eric Rutkow, Jan. 28 at 2 p.m. The talk explores the histories of the American chestnut and the American elm, two of the nation's...
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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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