The company buys marginal and degraded farmland, plants them with native trees, and harvests the resulting carbon credits.

Let’s save the American chestnut tree. John Rigolizzo, Jr. is a fifth-generation farmer, previously raising fresh vegetables and field corn in southern New Jersey. The family farm now produces ...

While many trees in the southern range were killed by Phytophthora root rot (PRR), the chestnut blight leaves roots intact, so many chestnuts have been surviving by growing back from the roots ...

Clear the adjoining 2-foot area of weeds and grass. The fast-growing chestnut trees will be ready to produce nuts before they ...

Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let ...

Manager Hans Johsens said the Santa Cruz Mountains provide ideal growing conditions for American-hybrid and Japanese chestnut trees — the coastal fog and rain help sustain the trees, the air ...

Because the Darling trees display only American chestnut traits, they are appropriate highly suitable for reintroduction into our forests. What are the requirements for growing chestnuts? The ...

before most of the country’s chestnut trees were destroyed by a blight at the turn of the 20th Century. Neiger called the farm Big River Chestnuts. But six years is a long time to wait for an ...

The past year has been full of challenges and important progress for ESF’s American Chestnut Research ... some trees die back, others show no symptoms, while a majority develop several non-lethal ...

A new festival in Castanea Township, Clinton County, looks to celebrate the area’s chestnut history and raise awareness about its recovery efforts.