American chestnut trees were almost wiped out by blight. Grow your own disease-resistant American chestnut hybrid tree.

The American chestnut was once one of the dominant tree species in the eastern forests of the United States, towering over all other tree species in the forest. Due to its dominance of presence in the ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. For generations, American chestnut trees (Castanea dentata) fed people and ...

There was a time in Appalachia when every ridge and holler was lined with towering chestnut trees and the mountains glowed ...

ASHEVILLE, NC - April 29, 2013 at 10 am, volunteers from the Carolinas Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) will gather to plant 100 potentially blight and root-rot resistant American ...

The once-prevalent American chestnut tree was wiped out of West Virginia by blight nearly 100 years ago, but you may be able to help with its restoration efforts.

In the first essay of this three-part series on American chestnuts, I discussed the tree’s near-extinction together with a bit of the ecological, economic, and cultural reasons why that mattered. Once ...

Chestnuts were reputedly served at the first Thanksgiving and thanks to dedicated breeding programs may be available locally today.

In 2014, I wrote an article on the demise of the American chestnut tree due to the invasive chestnut blight. I’ve been reading the ...

Hello Mid-Ohio Valley farmers and gardeners. Hopefully we have said goodbye to the heat and humidity of summer as we now focus on college football, cookouts and canning and preserving the harvest. An ...

To facilitate a harvest that could prove a key step in the decades-long effort to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut, Go Native Tree Farm employees used a 55-foot lift to gather the neon ...

NELSON COUNTY -- A much-mourned American legend still grows in the woodlands of the southern mountains. Quietly, on Appalachian hillsides millions of its progeny peek through the leaf litter. A few of ...