This year’s NOFA New York Winter Conference had a huge range of workshops, from practical presentations on cover cropping and compost to discussions about reducing food waste and how to advocate for a ...

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 time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started with a chestnut encased inside a small ziplock filled with moist peat-moss.

If you have space and time, try raising your own chestnuts to roast in future years. Gaylord Moore, University of Missouri Extension horticulturist, Springfield, recommends planting a Chinese chestnut ...

Chestnuts were reputedly served at the first Thanksgiving and thanks to dedicated breeding programs may be available locally ...

The scent of freshly roasted chestnuts and hot apple cider filled the air at the ThorpeWood lodge near Thurmont on Sunday afternoon. The lodge itself is made of chestnut wood, making it a fitting ...

LOVINGSTON, Va. (WDBJ) - David and Kim Bryant are the owners of Virginia Chestnuts in Nelson County. They planted more than 1,500 trees in their orchard by hand. It has truly been a labor of love, and ...

Abandoned strip mines are a blight on Pennsylvania’s landscape, but another type of blight stripped the landscape of chestnut trees. The trees that once grew on rocky ridge tops throughout the ...

Allan “Buzz” Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades ...