New Jersey cultivators Luke and Rachel Tarvin of Chesterfield have, in the last six years, taken the plunge to plant about 60 acres of prime Medford land with chestnut trees. Their hard work is just ...

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, ...

JENNINGS COUNTY, Ind. — Indiana Governor Mike Braun visited a record-setting tree in Jennings County this week. The tree that drew the attention of Indiana’s governor is a swamp chestnut oak tree ...

Round, brown, and smooth, they are nearly indistinguishable from chestnuts from a distance. Their ripening period and inner flesh also resemble chestnuts, making it easy to mistakenly think, “Can’t I ...

Unlike many other trees, beech trees can survive in lower light strata caused by oaks, tulip poplars and other sun seekers. One of the scarred but still thriving beech trees on the Cylburn trail is ...

Luke Tarvin talks about the Garden State sites for NJ Nut Farms, which he co-owns with his wife, Rachel Tarvin, Aug. 27 and Sept. 22, 2025, in Medford ...

Forest ecologist Mark Harmon has been exhaustively examining dead logs for 40 years, and he’s found a complex world few people see ...

Succulents: Hen and chicks make the ideal fire-resistive plant. With other succulents, such as rockcress, Moss rose, Sedums like stonecrop can tumble among rocks for pretty garden spots that do not ...

A clear, reader-friendly roundup of the latest Greenwich Council planning applications for the week of 1 October 2025, including loft conversions, tree works, a 17.5m mast at New Eltham Station, and ...