Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

SOUTHBORO — Saved from development in the 1960s, Chestnut Hill Farm continues to grow since being revived several years ago. The Trustees of Reservations bought 39 acres, which includes the remaining ...

Chestnuts were considered to be America’s “perfect tree” because of the high quality of their nuts and wood, but an imported blight nearly eradicated the species by the early 1900s. Resistance has ...

SOUTHBOROUGH — Desiree Robertson-DuBois is busy plowing fields and planting vegetables to get ready for the opening of Chestnut Hill Farm after this year's brutal winter. Since April, she has been ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them are imported from Italy, China and Korea. Yet chestnut trees grow just as well in the Midwest. So the boutique crop ...

The homesteading couple behind Gold Shaw Farm expands their perennial plantings to discover why chestnut seedlings are such ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION — It is not all corn and beans in those Midwestern farm fields. Increasingly, alternative crops are raising their heads above the twin monoculture sameness as enterprising farmers ...

Americans eat more than 7.5 million pounds of chestnuts every year, most of them imported from Italy, China and Korea, even though the Midwest has perfect climate conditions to grow the nut. An ...