Nut trees make great additions to your yard - and your kitchen - but which are worth growing, and which should you avoid? Let's weigh the pros and cons.

Oak trees are stately trees that can live for hundreds of years. These are the most common types of native oak trees that ...

State chapters of the national foundation cross locally-adapted pure American chestnut trees with the Chinese chestnut, which is resistant to cryphonectria parasitica, known as chestnut blight.

CRESSONA — Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American chestnut tree. Early Friday morning, a team of volunteers ...

Fall is an excellent time to plant trees, so thought it would be a good time to pass along information from three University ...

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 ...

SilvoCulture, a nonprofit environmental organization, hosted its third annual chestnut roast at the lodge to raise money to help the organization meet its goal of planting 1 million nut trees in ...

Jeffrey has 30 trees growing in her back yard in an orchard she manages for TACF. Planted only five years ago, they are already, she reported, taller than she is. The long plastic "grow tubes" are ...

Are there any chestnut trees that can grow well in our hot climate and produce edible chestnuts? What kind of upkeep would it require?

COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Sen. Kit Bond has helped get federal dollars for a University of Missouri research center, and officials there have helped plant chestnut trees on Bond's Mexico, Mo., property ...

Saving the struggling American Chestnut tree is key to future food chain Stephen Zuk tills the soil to prepare for chestnut tree planting on his property in Cressona, Friday, June 20, 2025.