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TACF is a Living Wage Employer certified through nonprofit Just Economics. In 2018, the living wage rate in Western North Carolina is $13.00/hr or $11.50/hr with employer provided health insurance. […]
At the turn of the 20th century, the Eastern United States was covered in billions of chestnut trees. In some places, such as the Appalachian Mountains and Maryland’s Eastern Shore, […]
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 […]