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Goodish news everyone
https://tacf.org/meet-the-trees/
tl;dr - conservation efforts to bring the tree back are working.
There are even 100% wild ( 100% American chestnut ancestry as best they can measure / tell ) that appear to be blight resistant and are being “studded” out to other trees.
My friend’s dad just built a new house and he’s got some resistant Chestnut trees he got from Cornell planted around his place. Really excited to see them grow.
I’d like to get some planted in my neighborhood.
I’m gonna petition the HoA to plant some where we just had a few old trees fall (on HoA land), and then just do it if they don’t listen (on my own)
Don't ask if you think they will say no because then they will know who did it. Just go do it. Put mulch or whatever around them like they've always been there.
If all else fails, delete the hoa
In my state in my yard they can’t stop me.
I meant asking to plant some on the general HoA property, luckily my HoA doesn’t suck and asking is more likely to get the HoA to fund it.
Bring back roasting chestnuts over an open fire!
Maybe the American ones taste better, but the store bought ones I had years ago were disappointing. Maybe you need to dress them up, these were plain.
Maybe you just needed Jack Frost nipping at your nose?
gotta try with butter and sugar, maybe cinnamon--remember, we're American. the store bought boxed ones aren't really the same though, they're better for crumbling up into other stuff
Roasted chestnuts just taste like weird potatoes to me
Had some for the first time a few weeks ago, I wasn't a fan, and they were American