By Dr. David Bingham
A group of Connecticut Chapter volunteers descended on the Salem orchard on April 14th, and planted about 200 nuts before dark on a beautiful day. Fifty of the nuts were from a native American Salem tree. These nuts were harvested last fall and lovingly cared for over the winter by Leila Pinchot, and have already shown high germination rates.
The Winter Board Meeting of the Connecticut Chapter was hosted at March Hall, Yale University by the Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry. Special gratitude to Leila Pinchot for making the arrangements.
Below is the summary of events for 2006, archived as we start developing the calendar for 2007.
Click here to see the 2007 calendar of events.
The Autumn Board Meeting of the Connecticut Chapter was hosted by the Woodbridge Land Trust at the Center Building in Woodbridge. Special gratitude goes out to Dr. Robert Gregg and Dr. Philip Arnold of the Woodbridge Land Trust for making the arrangements and providing refreshments.
Come to Earthplace in Westport for the grand opening at 2:00PM of Natureplace, a new indoor nature experience, and a fun program about the endangered American Chestnut trees. Natureplace features a great big tree in the Explorers’ Clubhouse. Gather near the Clubhouse to hear the story of Chestnut trees in Connecticut and to find out ways that you can help save this endangered species.
The spring Board Meeting of the Connecticut Chapter was hosted by the Woodbridge Land Trust at the Center Building in Woodbridge. Special gratitude goes out to Dr. Robert Gregg of the Land Trust for making the arrangements and providing refreshments. Special thanks also to all Directors for their hard work but in this case especially to Pat van de Kamp for her fabulous meeting minutes.
On April 17th, volunteers from the Northern CT Land Trust (NCLT) and CT-TACF joined forces to prepare a section of NCLT’s Swann Farm for possible use as a chestnut orchard. Located in Ellington, the Swann property has been preserved as working farmland and also helps provide income for NCLT’s land preservation activities. The site offers excellent access to well-drained Narragansett silt loam soils adjacent to a forest with numerous chestnut sprouts.
From Thursday though Sunday, February 23rd through 26th, the CT Flower show is Hartford's big event. A "momentary bloom" in winter's last icy grip, the show provides an opportunity for the chapter to reach throngs of gardners who might not otherwise attend a chapter meeting.
Invitation to a New Jersey American Chestnut Meeting Saturday March 11, 2006 Prallsville Mills, Stockton, NJ
The Pennsylvania Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation (PA-TACF) invites you to a general informational meeting for those who would like to assist in Chapter activities in New Jersey.
Bill Adamsen, President of the CT Chapter of The American Chestnut Foundation will lecture and host a discussion on the natural history of the chestnut, and the Foundation's efforts to capture the diverse genetics of local trees in their breeding efforts. This lecture will take place on April 27th at 7:00PM at the Oliver Wolcott Library on South Street in Litchfield, CT. The lecture will cover the natural history of the tree, tree identification, how to save a tree with blight and current research programs into creating a blight resistant tree.
For more about the lecture see the web sites of http://ctacf.org or http://www.owlibrary.org.
