Huff is optimistic the American chestnut can be saved, and that’s why he meticulously tends to the 74 plots he has planted over the last several years.

We are here to see more than 2,500 transgenic chestnut seedlings at a seed farm belonging to American Castanea, a new biotech startup. The sprouts, no higher than our knees, are samples of likely ...

Retired financial planner Jim Brady spends his days tending to his hundred-acre wood − maintaining trails, spotting wildlife and fostering American chestnut trees. When he bought the property on ...

The game involves players using conkers — the glossy brown seeds from the horse chestnut tree — threaded ... She was the first American to win the title since the World Conker Championships ...

The overall title of World Conker Champion was won by Kelci Banschbach, originally from Indianapolis. The 34-year-old was ...

Last week I received an email from Lisa Power, who manages the seed library at Banks Public ... (Happy Filipino-American History Month, by the way!) I used a lot of vegetables, but was also ...

The traditional game, played by generations of British schoolchildren, involves players using conkers — the glossy brown seeds of the horse chestnut ... She was the first American to win the ...