This event will take place on Monday and Tuesday from 9 am to 3 pm Here is a Google map link to the chestnut orchard location. 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 […]
This event will take place on Monday and Tuesday from 9 am to 3 pm Here is a Google map link to the chestnut orchard location. 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 […]
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 ProgramVolunteers 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. It […]
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 […]
Enjoy a free screening of the new documentary film Clear Day Thunder: Rescuing the American Chestnut! The film will be shown at Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, VA on Oct 21st at 2PM. Please join us!
Volunteers are needed to help plant Virginia’s seed orchards. Volunteers should email ten.nozirev@tuntsehcav for details and directions.
Volunteers are needed to help plant Virginia's seed orchards. Volunteers should email ten.nozirev@tuntsehcav for details and directions.
We will be working at the Blandy seed orchard Tuesday, April 16, and Wednesday, April 17. We will be clearing the aisles, fertilizing, overseeding, and mulching. Time: 9:00-3:00 Location: 400 Blandy Farm Lane, Boyce Bring: If you have them -- work gloves, garden rake, shovel, broadcast spreader, water, sunscreen. RSVP to Cathy Mayes
We will be working at the Blandy seed orchard Tuesday, April 16, and Wednesday, April 17. We will be clearing the aisles, fertilizing, overseeding, and mulching. Time: 9:00-3:00 Location: 400 Blandy Farm Lane, Boyce Bring: If you have them -- work gloves, garden rake, shovel, broadcast spreader, water, sunscreen. RSVP to Cathy Mayes
Harvest at the larger orchard at Blandy at 9:30 If you are unsure where the orchard is, meet at the parking lot near the front of the Quarters. However, if you arrive later than 9:30 you can head straight to the orchard.
Harvest at the larger orchard at Blandy at 9:30 If you are unsure where the orchard is, meet at the parking lot near the front of the Quarters. However, if you arrive later than 9:30 you can head straight to the orchard.
--Meet at the smaller orchard (the one nearest the Quarters building) at 9:30 or later. 400 Blandy Farm Ln, Boyce, VA 22620 (off U.S. 50 near U.S. 340) If you are unsure where the orchard is, meet at the parking lot near the front of the Quarters. However, if you arrive later than 9:30 you […]
--Meet at the smaller orchard (the one nearest the Quarters building) at 9:30 or later. 400 Blandy Farm Ln, Boyce, VA 22620 (off U.S. 50 near U.S. 340) If you are unsure where the orchard is, meet at the parking lot near the front of the Quarters. However, if you arrive later than 9:30 you […]
Remarkable Trees of Blandy: Foundation of the State Arboretum's (FOSA) Arbor Day Celebration When: Friday, April 27, 2:00PM-7:00PM Where: Blandy Experimental Farm, 400 Blandy Farm Lane, Boyce, VA 22620 Description: Outdoor workshops, panel discussion, Foundation of the State Arboretum annual meeting, and social with refreshments 2:00PM-2:45PM Native Trees for Your Backyard 3:00PM-3:45PM Spring Pruning for […]
Remarkable Trees of Blandy: Foundation of the State Arboretum's (FOSA) Arbor Day Celebration When: Friday, April 27, 2:00PM-7:00PM Where: Blandy Experimental Farm, 400 Blandy Farm Lane, Boyce, VA 22620 Description: Outdoor workshops, panel discussion, Foundation of the State Arboretum annual meeting, and social with refreshments 2:00PM-2:45PM Native Trees for Your Backyard 3:00PM-3:45PM Spring Pruning for […]
The Virginia Chapter of TACF will be growing chestnut seedlings in the new greenhouse at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Virginia. We are planning a potting party for the afternoon of Tuesday, April 25. Many hands make light work, so we would like to recruit volunteers to help. We will start around 1:00PM. Volunteers should […]
The Virginia Chapter of TACF will be growing chestnut seedlings in the new greenhouse at the Blandy Experimental Farm in Boyce, Virginia. We are planning a potting party for the afternoon of Tuesday, April 25. Many hands make light work, so we would like to recruit volunteers to help. We will start around 1:00PM. Volunteers should […]