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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 […]
Students from Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC planted 160 chestnuts at the campus on November 29 after delays due to cold weather and the first dusting of snow in […]
Champion, written by Sally M. Walker, is The Comeback Tale of the American Chestnut Tree as the subtitle states. First published in 2018, the book is written in a narrative […]
“To do something that has never been done before, to bring a species back from oblivion, is the result of research and teamwork by partners who want to restore the […]
This news article out of central New Jersey explains the efforts being made in that area to restore the American chestnut. The New Hopewell Environmental Commission has teamed up with […]