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

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started with a chestnut encased inside a small ziplock filled with moist peat-moss.

At the Kingman Research Farm just outside of the University of New Hampshire campus, there’s an orchard of chestnut trees, growing under the watchful eyes of researchers. The American chestnut was a ...

Question: I would love to grow American chestnut trees on my property to harvest the nuts for the holidays. Is this possible? Answer: The quick answer to this question is no – though work on ...

Many folks only think about chestnuts today when they hear the holiday tune about “chestnuts roasting on an open fire”. They ...

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 ...

Environmental advocates plan to plant and study chestnut trees in a Cayuga County nature preserve. The Finger Lakes Land Trust on Friday announced that it has partnered with SUNY College of ...

Gold Shaw Farm shows how to grow thriving chestnut trees in simple 5-gallon buckets. Jury awards $10 million to teacher who ...

The application of genetic engineering to food crops is controversial, and rightly so. Critics worry that changing genetics may have harmful, unanticipated effects on food safety and the environment.

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...