Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...

Gold Shaw Farm demonstrates a space-efficient method for cold-stratifying and sprouting chestnut trees using simple utility ...

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 ...

In the panoply of smells that mark the transition of fall into winter, few are more evocative than chestnuts roasting on an open fire. The aroma that inspired the first line of Mel Torme’s “The ...

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers dropped ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chestnuts, once a staple in the American kitchen, especially among indigenous people, have all but disappeared. Yet, there are ...

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sen. Kit Bond has helped get federal dollars for a University of Missouri research center, and officials there have helped plant chestnut trees on Bond's Mexico, Mo., property. Under ...

To a passerby, it probably looked like the volunteers wandering a soggy Murrysville meadow one morning this week were just pushing muddy sticks into the ground. In actuality, they were planting three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled ...