As with all trees, planting chestnuts and hazelnuts takes a little money and a good bit of time. But once they are established, they will produce huge amounts of food for years with minimal human ...

Have you ever wanted to enjoy the satisfying crunch of fresh water chestnuts right from your own garden? In this video, we ...

This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...

Some chestnuts also only tend to succumb to blight after five or ten years, so the foundation must grow the latest generation of trees—which are only 1/16 th Chinese—for at least a decade before they ...

John Vivian shares information on growing nuts for food and profit, including selecting the orchard site, selecting nut trees, harvesting nuts, pruning nut trees, nut tree pests and selling nuts ...

Michigan has become a national leader in growing chestnuts Roasting the nuts at Christmastime still is popular A fungus%2C first noticed in the early 1900s%2C took out billions of the trees ...

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire at the Missouri Chestnut Roast Festival on Oct. 2. Chestnut farming is a growth opportunity for Missouri agriculture. Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of ...

These days our world seems to grow ever faster. Of course, faster is a relative term - for the scientists trying to revive the American chestnut tree,… ...

Chestnuts were fast-growing, rot-resistant, and the wood was used to make cabin logs, barns, furniture, fence posts and railroad ties. Sweet, acorn-size nuts were prized by wildlife.

There’s a new push to plant 1 million nut trees in the mid-Atlantic years after the crop was devastated by blight.