Richard Wilhelm knows about the rise and fall of the American chestnut — how a foreign blight inadvertently wiped out the grandest tree in the North American forests in little over a half century. He ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...

— Linda Black walks down the orchard path outside her back door with her head bent, eyes scanning the dirt and scant grass. For what seems like the hundredth time before noon on this mid-September day ...

My friend Bruce Shenker forwarded me an email about a chestnut tree planting event he was attending in Greenwich, NY last Monday and suggested I join him. We’d have to leave Columbia County by 7:30 to ...

HEDGESVILLE, W.Va. — The American chestnut was virtually wiped out by blight that began more than a century ago. As a result, the tree largely disappeared from Appalachian hardwood forests, including ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them imported from Italy, China and Korea, even though the Midwest has perfect climate conditions to grow the nut. An ...

Chestnuts at the Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival on Oct. 2. Chestnut farming is a growth opportunity for Midwest agriculture. The U.S. imports a lot of chestnuts, and there is an opportunity for more ...

The chestnut has been a dietary staple in Europe since the days of ancient Greece and Rome. It’s a nut, but really more like a grain, with a starchy meat that can be ground into flour or cooked like ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to planting since chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) appreciate a somewhat acidic ...

Michigan farmers are working overtime to keep up with the demand of an old holiday favorite, roasted over an open fire. The state leads the nation in the number of chestnut trees and farms, and due to ...