This time-lapse shows the cold-stratified process and how a chestnut tree growing from a seed to a young plant. We started ...

Foray Bioscience, a plant biomanufacturing company growing plant products from the cell up, today announced its first seed partnership with West Coast Chestnut, a leading tissue culture chestnut ...

Joey Chestnut, a 16-time winner of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, has been banned from the event this year, Major League Eating (MLE) has announced. The ban apparently stems from Chestnut's new ...

An herb with the unlikely name of horse chestnut may prove to hold some of the keys to managing chronic venous insufficiency (CVI). Approximately 10%-15% of men and 20%-25% of women are afflicted by ...

LOVINGSTON, Va. (WDBJ) - David and Kim Bryant are the owners of Virginia Chestnuts in Nelson County. They planted more than 1,500 trees in their orchard by hand. It has truly been a labor of love, and ...

At the turn of the 20th century, it was nearly impossible to go outside in Central Virginia and not see a towering American chestnut tree. At that time, American chestnuts accounted for nearly one in ...

Filled with a deep sense of purpose, scores of volunteers spent a blustery morning Sunday planting seeds in a Martic Township field. Their mission was to help re-establish Lancaster County's ...

In the panoply of smells that mark the transition of fall into winter, few are more evocative than chestnuts roasting on an open fire. The aroma that inspired the first line of Mel Torme’s “The ...

A chestnut tree seed planting event will be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 24, at the old zoo within Springside Park. The event will be put on with the collaboration of The American Chestnut ...

The American chestnut was once the dominant hardwood species in Appalachian mountain forests, comprising as much as 40 percent of the overstory trees in the climax forests of the Eastern United States ...