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2018 Annual Meeting
2018 Annual Meeting | April 14th | 1:30pm | CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation® CT Forest & Parks Goodwin Center, 16 Meriden Road, Rockfall | Speaker: Andy Newhouse Agenda: 1:30 Opening Reception 2:00 Annual Meeting Minutes of prior meeting...
Proposed Amendment to the ByLaws
Four members in good standing of the CT Chapter TACF have submitted a proposal for amending the Chapter ByLaws (link below). Those members include the three members of the Nominating Committee (Baker, Adamsen, Harris), plus the Chapter Treasurer (Jim Gage). The...
Nominating Committee Report – 2018
CONNECTICUT CHAPTER-TACF 2018 REPORT OF THE CT-TACF NOMINATING COMMITTEE CT-TACF Nominating Committee Members Woods Sinclair, Bill Adamsen and John Baker are recommending the following Candidates for the Board of Directors and Chapter Officers: Nominees for...
CT Flower Show
Stuck inside because the "bomb cyclone" is blasting Connecticut with a polar vortex? Schedule a visit to the CT Flower Show at the Hartford Convention Center. While there stop by and visit us at the CT Chapter of the American Chestnut Foundation display, and learn...
A Tree Grows In Salem
“They’re the perfect food,” says David Bingham referring to the American chestnut. From a story by Sayzie Koldys with photos by Glenn Hilliard in the 2016 Winter Edition of the Edible Nutmeg Magazine. David Bingham makes a small X with his knife in each of the...
American Chestnut Seedlings at the Greenwich Land Trust
GREENWICH, CT – On Saturday, November 15th, 75 volunteers planted nearly 400 American Chestnut seedlings at The Greenwich Land Trust’s American Chestnut Sanctuary. The Greenwich Land Trust (GLT) partnered with The American Chestnut Foundation and the Greenwich Tree...
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What an incredible tree the American chestnut was! As The American Chestnut Foundations continues its decades-long work to restore this species, we welcome you to join the cause!
Become a member, volunteer with your local chapter, or simply spread the word about this incredible tree. Visit support.tacf.org/membership to get started.
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They can bring back a dead wolf from hundreds of years ago but they won’t bring back something useful like the American chestnut
And they are all gone because of humans
Thank NYC, destroyed not only the tree, but a way of life 😢
Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Duane McKenna and Michael Charles will discuss beetle evolution and the rediscovery of a lost species, the greater chestnut weevil.
Visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-beetle-evolution-greater-chestnut-weevil/ to learn more and register.
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Huge thanks to our amazing Bonner Scholars, Maddy, our dedicated Farm Assistant, and Gabbie, our creative Social Media Intern for all their hard work this semester! We’re so grateful for their contributions and can’t wait to welcome them back in August for another season of collaboration.
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Join us on Friday, May 16, 2025, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Duane McKenna and Michael Charles will discuss beetle evolution and the rediscovery of a lost species, the greater chestnut weevil.
Visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-beetle-evolution-greater-chestnut-weevil/ to learn more and register.
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Why don't they make a weevil that can't have babies? And put them in the wild? So it'll past it to overs so they'll die out!!!