by Yvonne Federowicz | Jul 16, 2019
MA/RI CHAPTER SUMMER QUARTERLY BOARD MEETING Broad Meadow Brook, 414 Massasoit Rd, Worcester, MA Saturday 8/03/2019 Please send agenda items to Jamie Donalds 10:00am-3:00pm: All are welcome to the Board Meeting! Please bring a bag lunch. From 3-3:30pm there will be a...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
Growing up I was fortunate enough to experience wild surviving American chestnut trees. I can recall with great clarity helping my grandfather pick nuts from their thorny burs as he searched for viable seeds for next season’s plantings, all the while...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019 | eSprout
On May 15, “Chestnut Day” at the Butler Montessori School in Darnstown, Maryland, MD-TACF Chapter member Gary Carver led a program to plant American chestnut trees and talk with young students about the trees and the work of TACF. The first group of 40 first, second,...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019
The KY-TACF Chapter will have a booth about American chestnut restoration at this year’s Kentucky State Fair at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. The chapter is looking for volunteers to help out during daily shifts. If you can help or would like to...
by Jules Smith | Jul 12, 2019
The KY-TACF Chapter will have a booth about American chestnut restoration at this year’s Kentucky State Fair at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville. The chapter is looking for volunteers to help out during daily shifts. If you can help or would like to...
by Jules Smith | Jul 8, 2019 | eSprout
It is the Fourth of July as I write this article about George Washington Bush and the two largest American chestnut trees in North America. He was a free black man born in Pennsylvania in 1779 of an African father and an Irish woman and became a pioneer who settled in...
by Jack Swatt | Jun 19, 2019
This Thursday, June 20th we will be inoculating the Litchfield Hills orchard with two strains of the blight fungus to determine each tree’s tolerance to chestnut blight. We could use a few volunteers to help with the inoculation process. The work will involve...
by Jack Swatt | Jun 19, 2019
This Thursday, June 20th we will be inoculating the Litchfield Hills orchard with two strains of the blight fungus to determine each tree’s tolerance to chestnut blight. We could use a few volunteers to help with the inoculation process. The work will involve...
by Jules Smith | Jun 5, 2019
The ME-TACF Chapter will be planting American chestnut seedlings and seeds in their Hartland Seed Orchard on Saturday, June 15 (Sunday, June 16 if needed or rain day alternative). This is a great opportunity to get involved in American chestnut restoration! Meet at...
by Jules Smith | Jun 5, 2019
The ME-TACF Chapter will be planting American chestnut seedlings and seeds in their Hartland Seed Orchard on Saturday, June 15 (Sunday, June 16 if needed or rain day alternative). This is a great opportunity to get involved in American chestnut restoration! Meet at...
