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 ...

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 ...

My friend Bruce Shenker forwarded me an email about a chestnut tree planting event he was attending in Greenwich, NY last Monday and suggested I join him. We’d have to leave Columbia County by 7:30 to ...

Organizers of the fourth annual Missouri Chestnut Roast hope that free samples, a series of hands-on demonstrations and talks and tours throughout the day will encourage families to come to the MU ...

NEW FRANKLIN — The Horticulture and Agroforestry Research Center (HARC) held its annual Chestnut Roast Saturday in New Franklin. Mid-Missourians got a unique look at the nut industry filled with ...

We sing the Christmas carol every year, but let’s face it chestnuts aren’t roasting on open fires in most American homes. But Kit Bond wants to bring the tradition back. There’s no fire required; they ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. “There is a windfall of federal money entering the agroforestry sector. After 30-plus years of work on agroforestry in the United States, the ...

A little more than four years ago, Eric Cartwright was asked by the University of Missouri’s Center for Agroforestry to devise some chestnut recipes for a cooking demonstration at the annual Chestnut ...

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. - Limbs on chestnut trees planted in 2002 are starting to spread in a demonstration at the University of Missouri Southwest Center, Mount Vernon. Center horticulturist Andrew Thomas ...