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Chestnut Grafting at Berry College
On Wednesday, April 8, 2021, GA-TACF volunteers initiated a third year of grafting attempts as part of our American chestnut gene conservation program. This phase of the work took place at the Berry College nursery. Scion material was collected in Jan-March from 15...
Georgia Chapter Request for Volunteer Roles
GA-TACF members, collaborators, and other “chestnut” people! For many years, the Georgia chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation has relied on our general membership primarily for volunteer work in the field (pollinations, harvests, plantings, orchard care). But...
More Chestnut Seedlings for the Roy Richards Seed Orchard!
The weather was fantastic (~50 degrees and sunny) for our chestnut planting at the Roy Richards “Southern Road” seed orchard this past Saturday! We want to thank everyone who participated for the enthusiastic help (see list below). Altogether, we added ~115 hybrid...
Flint PRR Orchard Expansion Completed
Great news! The long-sought after expansion of the Austin Flint Phytophthora screening orchard has been completed. This is a critically important project many years in the making. Many thanks to all who have been involved with this project since its inception. The...
Lake Allatoona Orchard Maintenance 2020
Georgia Chestnut Enthusiasts, We just wanted to give you a quick update showing some work being done on behalf of GA-TACF in Georgia. The series of photos below show groups of U.S. Army Corps staff and public volunteers engaging in major orchard maintenance work at...
Chestnuts and the HemlockFest Virtual Festival 2020
Chestnut Enthusiasts! Check out this video "thank you" to Lumpkin Coalition and Hemlockfest music festival for their past support of GA-TACF's American chestnut restoration program. It features long-time TACF supporter and master keyboardist Chuck Leavell, as well as...
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Check out this recent article in Backpacker magazine that focuses on TACF's chestnut restoration efforts!
Nearly a Century Ago, American Chestnut Trees Died Off. Now, Hikers Can Walk Among Them Again.
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Great fun at yesterday's Chestnutoberfest! Met a lot of new people, ate of lot of roasted chestnuts and chestnut blondies, drank a bit of chestnut ale, and listened to some great Appalachian mountain music from Russell Cook and Friends! If we missed you, please come out to one of our future events. Among other things, we will be having some seedling and seed distribution events later this fall and early next year.
If any attendee has some more photos to share, please send them to us. We were quite busy and didn't get many pics!
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River Remedy Brewing Co.
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There's still some of this left at the brewery! Come on over and try it out!
Sooo delicious!
It was a wonderful time- thank you!
We anticipate a beautiful day for today's Chestnutoberfest event at River Remedy. Rome has an exciting lineup of events planned for this weekend. Please feel free to stop by and introduce yourself. Russell Cook and Friends will take the stage during the middle of the 1-7 pm time slot. The American Chestnut Foundation River Remedy Brewing Co.
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