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Kentucky Plays Host to TACF!
Lexington, KY ? The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF), a 5,300 member-strong organization will hold its 22nd annual meeting here next week. Tree-growers, scientists, state and federal government officials as well as citizen scientist volunteers will meet to discuss...
Local Chapter Annual Meetings
Just a Reminder that the Connecticut and Massachusetts Annual Meetings are on back-to-back weekends this year, November 12th (CT) and November 19th (MA). Click here to see the Connecticut announcement, and here to see the announcement for the Massachusetts meeting.
Aton Forest Open House
Saturday sunshine peaked out from behind the clouds for the first time in ages. I had planned on visiting the Aton Forest open house in Norfolk, CT. CT-TACF Director John Anderson is the Aton Forest Executive Director, and he'd kindly invited me to attend (it...
Autumn 2005 Newsletter
After a tumultuous two weeks of editing, rewriting and scrambling to get approvals, we finalized the newsletter and sent it to print. Much thanks and gratitude go out to Linda Bowen of Computer Marketing Services in New Milford, who walked us through this process of...
TACF Earns 4 stars from Charity Navigator
Charity Navigator, a non-profit watchdog group in Mahwah, N.J., has rated The American Chestnut Foundation four stars, its highest evaluation of not-for-profit corporations accepting financial contributions from supporters.
American Chestnut Tree Planted at (Jimmy) Carter Center
September 21, 2005 - Former United States President (and American Chestnut Foundation Honorary Director) Jimmy Carter, and American Chestnut Foundation President Marshal Case participated in the planting of an American chestnut at the Carter Center. The Carter Center...
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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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