For nearly a decade, Jared Westbrook has worked on resurrecting the American chestnut, an iconic tree that nearly vanished from the United States a century ago. The American Chestnut Foundation, a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an ...

Q: Are there any chestnut trees that can grow well in our hot climate and produce edible chestnuts? We would like to plant one in our backyard but wanted to make sure they can take the weather. What ...

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

Scientists have a plan to restore the nearly extinct American chestnut to its abundant glory, and they need New York City residents’ help. The New York Restoration Project has launched an effort to ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to planting since chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) appreciate a somewhat acidic ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...