In The News
On November 3, seventeen students of Dr. Jay Bolin’s conservation ecology class at Catawba College replanted the Frog Hollow Orchard outside of Salisbury, NC. Cody Fulk of The Land Trust […]
The Duane Waddell Chestnut Demonstration Orchard, located in Kingwood, West Virginia, was established in 2013 on abandoned farmland owned by the Preston County Board of Education. Each year, Preston High […]
Last fall, on my way back home from Eastern Europe, I stopped in Switzerland for meetings at the Swiss Federal Institute of Forests, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) in Birmensdorf […]
In its fall lineup, The Asheville Museum of Science’s (AMOS) Science Pub series included a presentation by TACF’s director of science, Dr. Jared Westbrook. The series is a free monthly […]
On a crisp autumn day in apple country near Hendersonville, NC, a group of 15 hearty “chestnutters” met former TACF geneticist and stalwart volunteer Paul Sisco for a tour of […]
At the end of the day, all the chestnuts were eaten and the children used up all the leaves and feathers creating nature weavings. Even the chestnut beer was gone! […]
Dr. William Powell, professor at State University of New York’s College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) and TACF committee member, was recently interviewed on SciTech Now, a program on […]
This year’s annual meeting in South Portland, Maine on October 6-7, was a well-attended and hugely successful event. Because so much took place over the course of a few days, […]
TACF’s Annual Meeting in South Portland, Maine began on Thursday evening, October 5 with a traditional lobster bake on Peak’s Island and ended with a Saturday inland Maine chestnut restoration […]
The Louisville Nature Center (LNC) is a small nonprofit facility in Louisville, Kentucky. It features a 41-acre urban forest with more than two miles of light hiking trails and a […]
In 1719 a group of Scotch-Irish Presbyterian refugees fled violence in Northern Ireland and came to New England. They settled, in what today is, Londonderry, NH. The abundance of nut-bearing […]
This 10th annual chestnut festival was held Sunday, October 8 in Rowlesburg, WV, a tiny town on the scenic, big bend of the Cheat River. Afternoon activities included music, displays about […]