Henry Sakamoto, a legend in Portland’s Japanese-American community and the man responsible for bringing the beloved cherry ...

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OMP resident Tom Dalluge is devoted to saving, nurturing and growing American chestnuts on the Old Mission Peninsula.

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Ever since Mel Tormé and Bob Wells put pen to paper and wrote “The Christmas Song” in 1945, people have associated the winter ...

But in the late 1800s, a bark fungus was accidentally introduced into North America on imported Asiatic chestnut trees. The ...

Film gives the lie to claims by some researchers that genetically engineered trees are the only path to restoration of the ...

Conservationists pose with an American chestnut sapling at the Meadowcroft Estate in Sayville on May 1. From left: The Long Island Conservancy's Melissa Feudi, Frank Piccininni, Marshall Brown and ...

Michael Craver and Simone Gaillard knew instantly they wanted to be together. Less certain was whether she’d be interested in ...

In 2014, I wrote an article on the demise of the American chestnut tree due to the invasive chestnut blight. I’ve been reading the up-to-the-moment research, and I thought I would give a hopeful ...

While our culinary memories of the American chestnut have mostly faded, the fruit of the "bread tree" as it is sometimes called, remains firmly rooted in European and Asian tradition. Andrea Guastella ...

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 ...