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Chestnut Orchard Tour at Pryor Farm in Western North Carolina Featured Image

Chestnut Orchard Tour at Pryor Farm in Western North Carolina

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 […]
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Good Times Had at TACF’s 8th Annual Restoration Celebration Featured Image

Good Times Had at TACF’s 8th Annual Restoration Celebration

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!  […]
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SciTech Now: Saving the American Chestnut Tree Featured Image

SciTech Now: Saving the American Chestnut Tree

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 […]
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2017 Annual Fall Meeting Photos Featured Image

2017 Annual Fall Meeting Photos

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, […]
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Chestnut Restoration Tour in Maine Featured Image

Chestnut Restoration Tour in Maine

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 […]
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Louisville Nature Center Features Video About American Chestnut Featured Image

Louisville Nature Center Features Video About American Chestnut

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 […]
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An Educational Planting in Londonderry, New Hampshire Featured Image

An Educational Planting in Londonderry, New Hampshire

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 […]
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A Fun and Festive 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival Featured Image

A Fun and Festive 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival

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 […]
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Arboretum Unveils New Chestnut Information Panels Featured Image

Arboretum Unveils New Chestnut Information Panels

The Viles Arboretum in Augusta, Maine has been working since the 1980s to bring back the American chestnut tree, which was thought to be lost after a blight from Asia […]
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NE-1333 Meeting at Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley, NC Featured Image

NE-1333 Meeting at Cataloochee Ranch in Maggie Valley, NC

Cataloochee Guest Ranch in Maggie Valley, NC, was the venue for the annual meeting of chestnut scientists, now in its 35th year. First organized to facilitate research in hypovirulence, it […]
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Tour of Chestnut Orchard Inspires Students Featured Image

Tour of Chestnut Orchard Inspires Students

This summer, students at Virginia Western Community College (VWCC) in Roanoke, had the opportunity to tour TACF Virginia Chapter’s Catawba Breeding Orchard in Blacksburg. The Plant Life of Virginia class, […]
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10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival Featured Image

10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival

Come to Rowlesburg, WV this fall and enjoy one of only two public chestnut festivals on the east coast. The 10th Annual West Virginia Chestnut Festival will take place rain […]
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