American chestnut trees were almost wiped out by blight. Grow your own disease-resistant American chestnut hybrid tree.

SOUTHBORO — Saved from development in the 1960s, Chestnut Hill Farm continues to grow since being revived several years ago. The Trustees of Reservations bought 39 acres, which includes the remaining ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them are imported from Italy, China and Korea. Yet chestnut trees grow just as well in the Midwest. So the boutique crop ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them imported from Italy, China and Korea, even though the Midwest has perfect climate conditions to grow the nut. An ...

Allan “Buzz” Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION — It is not all corn and beans in those Midwestern farm fields. Increasingly, alternative crops are raising their heads above the twin monoculture sameness as enterprising farmers ...

On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of ...

MOUNT VERNON — Spiky chestnut burrs resembling sea urchins lie on the ground, blending in with orange leaves that have fallen. Beth and Kevin Meenaghan open up a burr to reveal a smooth, brown ...

San Jose resident Neil Catic searches for the best chestnuts out of his harvest from the Skyline Chestnut farms nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (Photo by Sammy Dallal) La Honda’s Skyline ...