With Thanksgiving approaching, many of us will be sitting down to hearty feasts with family and friends. Time-tested recipes on worn index cards or heavily thumbed cookbooks are combed ...

You don't have to be a botanist or cultivator to help bring back the American chestnut tree, which all but disappeared from the United States due to a deadly blight. The American Chestnut Foundation, ...

In the early 20th century, a blight fungus wiped out most of the 4 billion American chestnut trees on the eastern seaboard. The loss was... Blight destroyed the American chestnut tree. Can scientists ...

A startup called American Castanea has joined the quest to revive the American chestnut tree, the first step in its plan to give forests a genetic upgrade. Under a slice-of-heaven sky, 150 acres of ...

On the University of Iowa’s Oakdale campus in Coralville, you’ll find a rare mature American chestnut tree.

Chestnuts, once a staple in the American kitchen, especially among indigenous people, have all but disappeared. Yet, there are signs that chestnuts are reemerging as local and regional farmers are ...