This event will take place Wednesday to Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm Testing our orchard trees for blight resistance requires inoculating them with the blight. We do this by boring a hole in the bark, removing a plug of bark, and replacing it with a disk of agar and mycelium, the chestnut blight […]
This event will take place Wednesday to Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm Testing our orchard trees for blight resistance requires inoculating them with the blight. We do this by boring a hole in the bark, removing a plug of bark, and replacing it with a disk of agar and mycelium, the chestnut blight […]
This event will take place Wednesday to Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm Testing our orchard trees for blight resistance requires inoculating them with the blight. We do this by boring a hole in the bark, removing a plug of bark, and replacing it with a disk of agar and mycelium, the chestnut blight […]
This event will take place Wednesday to Saturday from 9 am to 3 pm Testing our orchard trees for blight resistance requires inoculating them with the blight. We do this by boring a hole in the bark, removing a plug of bark, and replacing it with a disk of agar and mycelium, the chestnut blight […]
Join us at Banshee Reeks Nature Preserve for our annual chestnut orchard maintenance on Saturday, March 8 from 9 am to 3 pm. We can't wait to see you there! Come prepared to work in field or forest conditions; wear appropriate clothing and solid closed-toe shoes (no crocs, sorry!), bring gloves, a hat, sunscreen, bug […]
2024 Virginia Chestnut Orchard Inoculation Program Volunteers are needed for a citizen scientist task - inoculating chestnut trees to test their resistance to blight. A three-person crew, or crews, are required over three weekends, working from 9 am to 3 pm. Please email with your date preference and indicate whether you can work multiple days. […]
2024 Virginia Chestnut Orchard Inoculation Program Volunteers are needed for a citizen scientist task - inoculating chestnut trees to test their resistance to blight. A three-person crew, or crews, are required over three weekends, working from 9 am to 3 pm. Please email with your date preference and indicate whether you can work multiple days. […]
Come help us sow chestnuts in one of our three seed orchards. These orchards are part of our plan to make many thousands of chestnuts available for future restoration plantings in the forests of Virginia. Get your hands a little dirty gently planting chestnuts in the ground and setting up small tubes to protect them […]
Please join us for our annual general membership meeting and a special screening of the exciting new documentary Clear Day Thunder - Rescuing the American Chestnut. After the film we will have a Q&A session and a site visit to our chestnut seed orchard, Help us celebrate the 40th Anniversary of The American Chestnut Foundation!
Volunteers are needed to help plant Virginia’s seed orchards. Volunteers should email ten.nozirev@tuntsehcav for details and directions.