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5.5K views · 31 reactions | Here’s the scoop: TACF offers wild-type seeds to all members each spring. And depending on your state, your local chapter may also offer seeds or seedlings. Want to learn more? Visit https://support.tacf.org/membership | The American Chestnut Foundation | Facebook

1.7K views · 62 reactions | What happens after harvesting chestnut burs? Our amazing Meadowview Farm staff, National staff, and VA-TACF volunteers shuck the chestnut burs to collect the seeds. Once the seeds have been counted, they get bagged up with a scoop of peat moss and stored in a refrigerator until spring! These chestnut seeds will then be distributed to our seed-level members, research farms, nurseries, and used for other plantings. | The American Chestnut Foundation | Facebook

One of the greatest ecological disasters the US has ever seen. Chestnut blight wiped out the American chestnut tree in less than 50 years. A tree that once made up nearly 25% of the eastern forests was reduced to a functionally extinct species. The Asian fungus Cryphonectria parasitica was accidentally introduced into the United States in the late 1800s. While a few diseased chestnuts were noted in the 1880s and 90s, it wasn't until 1904 that the pathogen was identified in New York City. From th