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 ...

LETTS, Iowa — A program on growing chestnuts commercially in the Midwest will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on February 11 at the Letts Community Room in Letts, Iowa. Topics to be covered will ...

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 ...

If you enjoy roasted chestnuts, you may enjoy growing a few trees of your own. Most chestnut trees are seedlings. That is, they are grown directly from a seed without being budded or grafted. But the ...

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

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 ...

— 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 ...

The American chestnut was once a mainstay in hardwood forests as far north as Maine and as far south as Georgia and Mississippi. A massive chestnut blight in the early part of the 20th century ended ...