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

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 ...

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 ...

— 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q: I love horse-chestnut trees. Are they hard to grow? A: Not if you have plenty of room and don’t mind cleaning up after them in autumn. The common horse-chestnut tree (Aesculus hippocastanum) has ...

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 ...

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 ...