Have you ever wanted to enjoy the satisfying crunch of fresh water chestnuts right from your own garden? In this video, we ...

Michigan offers a variety of nuts ready to pick and harvest from the wild. Here's what to know before foraging.

Sara Fitzsimmons fights to resurrect a tree that once ruled the eastern U.S. forests. Billions of American chestnut trees once shaped life in Appalachia, but a foreign fungus erased them in a matter ...

THE TROUBLE began in 1904, at the Bronx Zoo: Specimens of Asian chestnut trees, resistant to blight, quickly passed the fungus to their American counterparts up and down the East Coast, moving from ...

American chestnut trees — which produce nuts inside spikey pods — still grow in the wild, but are considered “functionally extinct” because they do not typically live to maturity due to a fungus ...

The American Chestnut Foundation, a mostly volunteer organization, is looking for help in restoring the once-abundant ...