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TN-TACF Middle Tennessee Pollination Workshop
The Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation held a very successful one-day pollination workshop on Saturday 10 June 2023 at the beautiful Chestnut Ridge Orchard in Middle Tennessee. The workshop was a hands-on opportunity to learn and practice the...
Potential Chestnut Orchard Site Examined
On April 30, Sandy showed Jack and me her land which she hopes will become a chestnut orchard site. We dug a soil sample and it looked dark and rich in organic matter and It was not overly wet after the recent heavy rains. I concluded that the site has good potential...
Arbor Day Foundation Honors The American Chestnut Foundation with Public Awareness of Trees Award
https://youtu.be/yrFEpuBP8L4 This spring, The American Chestnut Foundation® (TACF) was presented the 2014 Public Awareness of Trees award from the Arbor Day Foundation. The award recognized TACF for elevating the public awareness and understanding of the importance of...
Planting Chestnut is Like Icing on a Birthday Cake
My wife Paula asked me what I would like to do on my birthday on this past Saturday. I suggested helping to restore the American chestnut, and she was all in. Having completed one generation of...
This Is How We Roll
Volunteers from the Tennessee Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation use the Eagle Point Railroad to haul the planting crew and trees to the site of a 600-tree silviculture test. Watch this short video to get an idea of the kind of work we do on the Cumberland...
Coal Creek Watershed Foundation Plants Chestnut Seedlings for Arbor Day
Congratulations to the Coal Creek Watershed Foundation for completing their 6th annual Arbor Day event last week with the U.S. Office of Surface Mining (OSM) and the Tennessee Mining Association. The Arbor Day 2014 planting event was held on former abandoned mine land...
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Join us TODAY, Friday, August 16, 2024, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (ET), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat.
Special guests Tony D’Amato and Tim Stout will discuss the role of the American chestnut in forest management strategies that address the impacts of climate change and invasive insects and pathogens on eastern forests. Tony will provide an overview of the frameworks and approaches under evaluation and Tim will bring it to a landowner scale by discussing the strategies being tested and applied on his farm in Shrewsbury, Vermont.
To sign up, visit tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-adaptive-silviculture-for-climate-change/
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Join us for Chestnut Chat's 50th Episode Spectacular next Friday, July 19th at 11:30AM ET.
Click the link to learn more about or sign up for this webinar. tacf.org/event/chestnut-chat-50th-episode-spectacular/
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TACF was featured on NPR's "All Things Considered" on Monday, April 15th. Journalist Roxy Todd visited Meadowview Research Farms for the story, and you can read the transcript or listen to this story here. www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/npr/1244900609/researchers-have-been-trying-to-breed-fungus-...
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