In The News
When American chestnut hybrids growing in an orchard contract the blight and are cut down, they will re-sprout and re-grow after this happens. So to promote a particular tree, encouraging […]
Among the things Maryland Chapter members enjoy – besides weeding in orchards when temperatures are in the 90s and deburring seeds with the tips of spikes from the burs imbedded […]
On April 5th, officials from the Maryland Chapter and the Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC) marked another milestone in their long-standing partnership by dedicating the new Lyles backcross orchard. This […]
The Florida torreya is North America’s most endangered conifer, with less than one percent of its population remaining. Now, scientists are mounting a last-ditch effort to save the torreya and […]
Greenhouse construction at TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms in VA is in its final stages of development. The greenhouse was funded through the generosity of our 2017 Spring Appeal donors, to […]
While March has come in like a lion for some of us, it also marks the kick off to the growing season with one of the first harbingers of spring. Some may think about blooming forsythia, or the emergence of snowdrops and crocuses as clear signs of warmer weather to come. But those...
TACF’s 2018 seed distribution has come to a close. On Thursday, March 1, staff from the National office in Asheville joined the gang at Meadowview Research Farms in Virginia to […]
Mark Stoakes, GA Chapter board member, marshaled the Georgia Chapter forces on February 20 to plant about 16 American chestnut and six Ozark and Allegheny chinkapin seedlings along the Confluence […]
When it comes to biodiversity, humans have been about as good for life on Earth as a giant asteroid slamming into it. Many leading scientists contend that we are in […]
Over the years, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) has grown from a small and somewhat relaxed organization, into a relatively large and more professional one. While we appreciate having a […]
The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) was invited to participate in McCullough Fellows program at the University of North Carolina-Asheville (UNCA). The McCullough Fellowship Program offers intensive mentoring to undergraduate students […]
Abraham Lincoln, the rail splitter, who spent his early years growing up in Kentucky, is also well known in the Carolinas. His mother, Nancy Hanks married Tom Lincoln of North […]