by Jules Smith | Jul 30, 2019
TACF’s New England Regional Science Coordinator Kendra Collins will give a tour of the American chestnut germplasm conservation orchard from 11:45AM – 12:30PM. The tour is part of the 2019 University of Vermont Horticulture Research & Education...
by Jules Smith | Jul 30, 2019
TACF’s New England Regional Science Coordinator Kendra Collins will give a tour of the American chestnut germplasm conservation orchard from 11:45AM – 12:30PM. The tour is part of the 2019 University of Vermont Horticulture Research & Education...
by Jules Smith | Jul 24, 2019 | External News
Over four billion American chestnut trees have been killed as a result of an introduced pathogen, the chestnut blight. But recently, thanks to science and the hard work of TACF and our partners, transgenic blight‐tolerant American chestnut trees have been developed....
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 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...
