Most of the wild crop of edible nuts — walnuts, hickories, chinquipins, filberts, Chinese chestnuts, butternuts and heartnuts — are consumed by squirrels and other animals or are damaged by worms and ...
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 ...
The scent of freshly roasted chestnuts and hot apple cider filled the air at the ThorpeWood lodge near Thurmont on Sunday afternoon. The lodge itself is made of chestnut wood, making it a fitting ...
Malabar chestnut trees have many names and many uses. They are very adaptable plants that have traditionally been cultivated in several styles and sizes and are well suited to tropical climates like ...
Abandoned strip mines are a blight on Pennsylvania’s landscape, but another type of blight stripped the landscape of chestnut trees. The trees that once grew on rocky ridge tops throughout the ...
Some people report finding what they think are healthy American chestnut trees with nuts growing in the wild. They hope nature has intervened, by causing the blight to disappear or producing trees ...
LOVINGSTON, Va. (WDBJ) - David and Kim Bryant are the owners of Virginia Chestnuts in Nelson County. They planted more than 1,500 trees in their orchard by hand. It has truly been a labor of love, and ...