The American Chestnut Foundation | Rooted in Restoration

VA- Chestnut Planting, Falling Creek Park, Bedford County

by TACF | Aug 14, 2024

The Bedford Area Master Gardeners Association (BAMGA) in partnership with Virginia Cooperative Extension, and Bedford County Parks and Rec have collaborated with the VA Chapter TACF to plant a demonstration plot of a dozen backcross hybrid chestnuts, plus one wild...

Maryland Chapter Fall Meeting

by TACF | Aug 14, 2024

The MD-TACF fall meeting will take place from 10-2:30 pm at Fox Haven Farms. We will have two guest speakers and tour a chestnut orchard from our breeding program. Hope to see you there!

Learn More About TACF’s Research Advisory Council

by TACF | Aug 13, 2024 | Press Release

Over the course of The American Chestnut Foundation’s 41 years, the organization has consistently sought external scientific expertise to ensure that its programming and progress are on track. To reach this goal, The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) holds two...

Press Release: Partnership in Genetic Research Between TACF and Virginia Tech

by TACF | Jul 23, 2024 | Press Release

Partnership in Genetic Research Between The American Chestnut Foundation and Virginia Tech Guides Efforts to Restore the American Chestnut Tree Asheville, NC, July 23, 2024 Indigenous trees adjust to the climate and environmental circumstances of their locality as a...

Chestnut Chat: Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change

by TACF | Jul 19, 2024

Adaptive Silviculture for Climate Change: Exploring Options for Sustaining Eastern Forests in an Uncertain Future Join us on Friday, August 16, 2024, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat. Special guests Tony D’Amato, Pete Clark, and Tim...

SC- Clear Day Thunder Documentary Screening

by TACF | Jul 8, 2024

Join us at Grateful Brew on Sunday, July 14 at 4 p.m. for a screening of Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut, a new documentary detailing grassroots efforts by researchers and citizen scientists to restore one of America’s most ecologically and...

2nd Annual Chestnut Carnival

by TACF | Jul 2, 2024

Join us for the 2nd annual celebration of the mighty Chestnut! Chestnut roasting, tasting, many foods incorporating chestnuts, chestnut drinks, chestnut info, sapling sales, relax under mature chestnut trees. You get the picture…we’ll be getting...

CT Chapter Middletown Backcross Orchard Inoculation

by Jack Swatt | Jun 22, 2024

In order to select the most resistant chestnut trees in our Backcross Orchards, we test the trees by inoculating them with two strains of blight fungus. We will be inoculating our Middletown Backcross Orchard at Higby Reservoir on Wednesday, June 26th at 8:30 AM. ...

Chapter TACF Email Training 2

by TACF | Jun 20, 2024

This internal webinar, led by TACF’s Director of Business Operations Mark Weaver, will advise TACF Chapter leadership on how to effectively use their chapter tacf.org email accounts. The same training will be given on 7/12/24 at 1:30pm. If you are an authorized...

Chapter TACF Email Training

by TACF | Jun 20, 2024

This internal webinar, led by TACF’s Director of Business Operations Mark Weaver, will advise TACF Chapter leadership on how to effectively use their chapter tacf.org email accounts. The same training will be given on 8/16/24 at 1:30pm. If you are an authorized...

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