Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

They were traditionally a staple food in many cultures, particularly in Asia and Europe. Chestnut trees thrive in acidic, well-drained soil under temperate climate conditions. On the other hand, ...

Chestnut trees began disappearing from eastern deciduous forests in the U.S. almost a century ago due to a nasty fungus. That has contributed to a vastly different eastern forest landscape today.

For nearly a decade, Jared Westbrook has worked on resurrecting the American chestnut, an iconic tree that nearly vanished ...

Maysville Community and Technical College will soon host an informational session about agroforestry. The practice is the ...

21). As readers may or may not know, the American chestnut tree was once very nearly extinct due to the chestnut blight caused by a fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica. Making operations such as ...

Most of the chestnuts available in supermarkets during the chestnut season (late September to December) are from Europe rather than home-grown. If you buy your chestnuts fresh, choose plump smooth ...

SIMSBURY— A single rare tree found deep in the woods of Simsbury could some day help experts produce chestnuts that are resilient to blight. The American Chestnut tree once thrived ...

The game involves players using conkers — the glossy brown seeds from the horse chestnut tree — threaded onto a string to try and smash their opponent’s chestnut. Each player takes three ...

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15, 2024. (Cory Sharber/WHYY) Chestnut Hill’s development began in the early 1700s before being incorporated into Philadelphia in 1854. Much of the neighborhood’s character comes from the architecture ...