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 ...

MU's Center for Agroforestry held it's annual Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024 at the Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center in New Franklin, MO. On a Saturday ...

The grove at the Northeast Portland park already has been picked over at 9 a.m. on a weekday in mid-October. Each “thwop!” – the sound of a chestnut falling from its spiky husk and striking the grass ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car. Every Christmas, ...

Chestnuts were considered to be America’s “perfect tree” because of the high quality of their nuts and wood, but an imported blight nearly eradicated the species by the early 1900s. Resistance has ...

Michigan's forests grow a range of edible nuts each fall — making squirrels, deer and even a few bears happy — and if you're up for the adventure, you can bring some home for a treat as well. Many of ...

“It looks like the Natural Land Institute’s Legacy Tree Program has found yet another Illinois state champion tree: a rare American chestnut (Castanea dentata) in Freeport,” said Alan Branhagen, ...

Phil Spencer was sitting in a restaurant in East Ridge one day about 20 years ago when a woman walked in clutching a napkin. She unrolled the napkin to reveal a tiny chestnut tree which she had pulled ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...