Darling-58 sprouts, a transgenic American chestnut created by ESF researchers, grow in a nutrient solution. Darling 54, a ...

Jim Brady discovered an American chestnut tree on his property in Olean. It sparked his quest fighting against a 200-year-old blight to revive a species that once numbered in the billions and ...

Seeds lying deep inside a sleepy hillside orchard could play a crucial role in the regeneration of the embattled American ...

Stephen Zuk tills the soil to prepare for chestnut tree planting on his property in Cressona, Friday, June 20, 2025. The planting is part of an effort to develop a hybrid, crossbred with a Chinese ...

The Purdue Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center has signed a commercial partnership agreement with Tree Pro to distribute select hardwood seedlings from its breeding program beginning in ...

The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to plant 1,000 thriving American chestnut trees that are a hybrid with the blight-resistant Chinese chestnut tree in the five boroughs.

The hybrid American chestnut seedlings. With the 1,000 Chestnut Challenge, NYRP seeks partner individuals and institutions to plant and monitor hybrid American chestnut seedlings as part of a ...

"Gold Shaw Farm, located in Peacham, VT, is a 158-acre homestead-in-progress. Started in 2016 by Morgan and Allison Gold, they're building a regenerative farm from the ground up. Catch their ...

Fifty American chestnut tree seedlings were planted in Chestnut Ridge Park in Orchard Park on Arbor Day, the first time in memory that pure American chestnuts were planted at their namesake county ...

An open burr of the American chestnut tree. Functionally extinct since the mid-20th century, the American Chestnut Foundation has been spearheading a multi-pronged approach to bring the tree back ...

The horse chestnut tree in front of my house looks worse than ever. Its remaining leaves are brown, and many fell early. Is my tree in trouble? What can I do to help it? — Peggy Schwartz ...