We had another exciting year with significant progress toward our goals of distributing the blight tolerant, Darling American chestnut trees to the public and restoration programs. First, I would like ...

MU's Center for Agroforestry held it's annual Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 at the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New Franklin, MO. On a Saturday ...

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 ...

This is an exciting year with the largest Darling American chestnut harvest to date. This will add to our current 5,165 total trees in our field trials, 2,018 of which are the Darling 58 American ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION — It is not all corn and beans in those Midwestern farm fields. Increasingly, alternative crops are raising their heads above the twin monoculture sameness as enterprising farmers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ken Baker and Cocoa In this and my next two essays, I’d like to explore: (A.) How, in the first half of the 20th century, ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

A new study says genetic testing can speed the return of the American chestnut tree that once dominated Eastern U.S. forests. The tree was functionally extinct by the 1950s because of a fungal ...

Badgersett Research Farms of Canton, Minn., is restoring the American chestnut to its former glory. In the southeast corner of the state, Phil Rutter, a biologist and ecologist, has been working on ...

Chestnuts roast on an open fire in the home of one new nut tree grower. Bob Corbin of Finksburg said his go on an open skillet, and he uses them to make bread. They can also be added to soups and ...