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On February 9, about 30 MD-TACF Chapter members and volunteers planted 4,000 5th generation hybrid chestnuts in a greenhouse located on the property of the Baltimore County Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park. This was the first large chestnut planting project in Baltimore County. Many of the volunteers were recruited from the...
On March 7, Dr. Jennifer Koslow, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at EKU, volunteered 15 students in her “Chestnuts and Change in Appalachia” class to plant 426 chestnut seeds. The […]
At the beginning of this year, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) released a report entitled Forest Health and Biotechnology: Possibilities and Considerations. The report was the […]
“The loss of the nuts ended a way of life and brought economic hardship to many. ‘The blight was hard on people for chestnuts were used as money at the […]
Did you know chestnuts have helped end famous quarrels between those such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, thanks to chefs such as James Hemings (1765-1801)? Per our long-time friend […]
The Guardian, a heavily-read online media source that covers American and international news, recently published an article about how TACF’s American chestnut restoration efforts offer hope for British trees. Like […]
On February 9, 2019, about 30 members of the MD-TACF Chapter planted 4,000 American chestnut seeds in a warm greenhouse at the Center for Maryland Agriculture and Farm Park in Cockeysville. The work of this committed group of volunteers will allow TACF to study these future saplings, pinpointing the trees that are most genetically...
Audrey Peterman’s Huffington Post blog includes American history from a Black History Month synopsis she received from her friends at the National Park Service: “Since the start of the American […]
As The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) moves closer to the restoration phase of the American chestnut, we will have to rely not only on public lands but also that of private landowners to create a contiguous, self-sustaining...
The Arc of Appalachia’s Land Restoration trail at Ridgeview Farm in Highland County, Ohio offers visitors a look at how biodiversity can indeed be brought back to an abandoned farm. Interpretive panels along the trail discuss techniques used by...
Students from the Center for Technology, Essex – the Essex Junction, VT technical high school, are participating in American chestnut restoration. Their natural resources teacher, Brian Japp, has partnered with […]
The Hermitage of the Holy Cross is an English-speaking monastery under the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia in the Diocese of Eastern America and New York. Holy […]