Winter is a great time to notice more about the tree in your yard, on your street or road, especially by taking a walk or hike at a local park. The fresh air will do you some good on a sunny day.

The American chestnut tree, or číhtkęr in Tuscarora, once grew across what is currently the eastern United States, from Mississippi to Georgia, and into southeastern Canada. Now, a transgenic version ...

Sara Fitzsimmons, in the red shirt on the left, speaks to a group of college students about chestnuts. More than a century after a blight wiped out the majority of American chestnut trees across the U ...

“We called them gray ghosts,” the now 77-year-old retired forester says of the American chestnut tree scattered throughout his former North Carolina home and still towering over the forest floors.

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 ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to ...

Maybe you’ve never roasted chestnuts on an open fire. And if you have, what you bought at the store wasn’t an American chestnut. When Mel Torme wrote “The Christmas Song” back in 1945, the American ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...

Gold Shaw Farm explains how to grow chestnut trees successfully from seed to maturity. Trump announces deal to lower weight ...