Massachusetts / Rhode Island Chapter of The
American Chestnut Foundation
-- dedicated to restoring the keystone forest tree of the east
-- by breeding local American chestnut "Mother" trees into a population of blight-resistant trees
2012:
Our first seed orchard planting!
Contact us for future orchard work dates.
Volunteers are always welcome!
Sentinal Covers Restoration Dinner & Donalds Orchard
Our first seed orchard planting.
Can you help provide a long-term seed orchard to grow potentially blight-resistant MA/RI chestnuts?
Can you help provide a long-term seed orchard to grow potentially blight-resistant MA/RI chestnuts?
2012 saw the first planting of one of our "seed orchards": the next generation of TACF's breeding plan for blight-resistant chestnut, using nuts from our ~28 "BC3" orchards. Seed orchards produce highly blight-resistant offspring for our forests and other locations. More are needed!
We are still pollinating local pure American trees for our "BC3" orchards - so please let us know when you find a blooming local American tree.
Massachusetts or Rhode Island
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4/28/2013 |
Spring Quarterly Meeting of the MA/RI Chapter of the American Chestnut FoundationSee Calendar Above for Details All are Welcome! |
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See Google Calendar announcement above for directions and agenda |