Alachua, FL (August 1, 2025) – If the goal is attracting more deer with natural food, nothing beats Dunstan Chestnuts. Chestnuts once reigned supreme over the eastern hardwood forests, not just ...

Brown, curled leaves on an American Chestnut tree indicate it was killed by blight. Ed Suba Jr. Tribune News Service Q: I’ve read that white tail deer enjoy chestnuts, and there is a variety called ...

Since the introduction of chestnut blight to North America in the early 1900s, American chestnuts very rarely reach maturity. They sprout but are killed by the blight once they reach a certain size.

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 ...

n the early part of this century, there was nothing that could protect the once-beautiful American chestnut from a bark fungus, accidently introduced from the Orient. The blight, first discovered in ...

From Vermilion to the Pennsylvania border, streams flowing into Lake Erie hold enough steelhead this time of year to draw anglers from around the state. Frigid air isn't much of a deterrent, though ...

Michael Peterson of Eastover Nut Farm in Richland County grows Dunstan chestnuts, because they’re easy to peel and taste sweeter than European imports, without the tannic tang that chestnut detractors ...

Thanks for the picture. It always helps in trying to decipher what a plant may be, especially when someone has an idea of what they think it might be. In this case you have not spied a golden rain ...