Spend a day surrounded by chestnut trees and friendly people as we inoculate chestnut trees with blight to test their blight resistance at the Penn State Arboretum orchard in State College, Pennsylvania. If you enjoy outdoor work then this is for you! The PSU arboretum is also a great living demonstration of TACF's progress using […]
Join TACF at the chestnut orchard at Penn State Arboretum in State College on Friday, June 14th to learn all about the controlled pollination process, and see the many different types of chestnuts at this large backcross chestnut orchard. Controlled pollination is vital to growing trees that are the best of the best from the […]
Do you like to dig holes? We will be digging about 800 of them for an advanced research field trial of all different types of chestnuts on the state nursery grounds on Friday, October 18 from 0900 until finished. This will be a field trial to complement a detailed greenhouse replicate tested by early assay […]
We will be planting an advanced research plot of about 800 chestnut trees in a field resistance trial to evaluate all types of chestnut trees from throughout the breeding program on the same site. This is an important field replicate of a detailed greenhouse inoculation trial meant to test both the trees and early assay […]
Chestnut Seed Orchard Planting at Moshannon State Forest District Office Orchard. Rain or shine. Light-duty work clothes, gloves, boots, water, tick repellent, and sunscreen are recommended. We will bring some snacks and drinks. Sign up to volunteer here! Contact Lake Graboski with questions: gro.fcat@iksobarg.ekal.