The homesteading couple behind Gold Shaw Farm demonstrates a simple method for growing chestnut trees using a bucket.

The homesteading couple behind Gold Shaw Farm shares low-cost planting tips to grow chestnuts and acorns for very little ...

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 loss of American chestnut trees, Castanea denatata, ranks as one of the most devastating botanical disasters in U.S. history. Before the introduction of chestnut blight in 1904, there were over 4 ...

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 ...