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Massachusetts / Rhode Island Chapter of The
American Chestnut Foundation
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-- 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? 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. |
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