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Maryland Chapter Spring Meeting

MDTACF Spring Meeting

Our Maryland Chapter Annual Membership meeting will be Saturday, April 25 at Milkhouse Brewery 8253 Dollyhyde Road Mt. Airy, MD 21171, 12 – 3 pm, rain or shine.

The event will take place at Milkhouse Brewery, where we will host guest speakers, provide
a tree-planting demonstration, and enjoy the company of fellow enthusiasts.    Admission: Free (Family-friendly)

Featured Presentations –
“What fungal genetics can tell us about resistance” by Bruce Levine
(University of Maryland).
“The Return of a Forest Icon: Strategies for Restoring Castanea dentata” by
Cassie Stark (TACF).

Agenda:
11:30 AM – 12:00 PM: Pre meeting set up –
12:00 PM – 12:30 PM: Business Meeting –
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM: Presentations by Bruce Levine and Cassie Stark –
1:30 PM – 2:00 PM: Chestnut tree planting demonstration –
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM: Networking, seedling sales, and chapter apparel sales
The meeting will be held in the covered pavilion. The brewery opens at 12:00 PM and
will feature a food truck and a special tap of our chestnut lager. Come for the great
company and talk about chestnuts

For more information on the brewery, please visit Milkhouse Brewery
(https://www.milkhousebrewery.com).

Chestnut questions, contact MDTACF
at gro.fcat@retpahCDM.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Just a few years apart: the same wild American chestnut tree before and after chestnut blight took its toll.

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I have had these on the farm for years

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From looking at the leaves that is NOT an American chestnut. The leaves do not have the good fishhook profile on the edges, and from what can see they look like Japanese chestnut leaves which have small feathery edges.

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Small Stem Assays involve inoculating young chestnut stems with the blight fungus and monitoring the resulting cankers, allowing researchers to assess how well different trees respond to infection.

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You don't find out if the tree is resistant until it matures. That could be a decade later.

I am always amazed how big you all can grow them in 1 year. That is how big my second year seed8 gs always are!

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