by Yvonne Federowicz | Jul 30, 2021
Our Winter Quarterly Board Meeting on Saturday, January 30th 2021 will be held via Zoom. Please contact Jamie Donalds with suggestions for the agenda.
by Florian Carle | Jul 26, 2021
Meet the CT Chapter of TACF at the The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station 111th Plant Science Day! Members of the TACF Connecticut Chapter will be on plot 29, near wild Chestnuts From Turkey, to answer all your chestnut-related questions and show you the...
by TACF | Jul 19, 2021 | eSprout
In April of 2021, former TACF Regional Science Coordinator Paul Sisco and a volunteer crew participated in a workday at the backcross chestnut orchard located at Lioncrest, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC. The ground where the trees are planted is known to contain...
by Jules Smith | Jul 16, 2021 | eSprout
Once in a blue moon, I like to gift an extra seedling or two to special friends or major donors when there are extra available from TACF’s Meadowview Research Farms. A long-time friend and former colleague at The Nature Conservancy, Hallie, was the recipient of such a...
by Jules Smith | Jul 16, 2021 | eSprout
In mid-May, TACF members and volunteers worked non-stop to create New England’s first transgenic chestnut seedling orchard in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. Transgenic chestnuts have an extra gene from wheat to protect them from the fungal blight that kills the American...
by Jack Swatt | Jul 6, 2021
When an isolated American chestnut tree flowers without a nearby source of pollen, the tree produces infertile nuts. We have been helping these trees successfully reproduce by bringing pollen to the tree and manually pollenating the female flowers. Join us this...
by Jack Swatt | Jul 6, 2021
When an isolated American chestnut tree flowers without a nearby source of pollen, the tree produces infertile nuts. We have been helping these trees successfully reproduce by bringing pollen to the tree and manually pollenating the female flowers. Join us this...
by Jules Smith | Jun 25, 2021
Join us on Friday, July 16 at 11:30 AM (EDT) for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat, Emerging and Evolving Threats to Chestnut Health. Who has time to worry about blight? There are other issues impacting chestnut, including Gnomoniopsis and gall wasp. Emily Dobry, M.S....
by Yvonne Federowicz | Jun 20, 2021
The meeting will be both in person and on Zoom. We will meet in person at Bolton Town Common Pavilion – 715 Main Street Bolton, MA. Please contact Jamie or Yvonne for the Zoom information, if you would like to attend remotely.
