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 ...

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 ...

Sally Weed cherishes the chance to watch someone walk by her stand at the Healdsburg Farmer’s Market, smell her freshly roasted chestnuts and get transported to another time and place. “They just are ...

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 ...

The 38-foot tall chestnut tree behind Rick and Jen Hartlieb’s Robesonia farmhouse has to fight for sunlight from a neighboring maple. Of all the chestnuts on their 12-acre farm, this hardy specimen is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jeff White, owner of Chestnut Creek Farm, is seen with a Broad Breasted White tom at the farm in Westminster on Friday, Nov. 5, 2021. A Broad Breasted White tom at Chestnut Creek Farm in Westminster ...

On September 22, 1870, Henry Ward Beecher — a clergyman and social reformer as well as the brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin author Harriet Beecher Stowe — took to the Pittsfield Sun newspaper to write of ...

San Jose resident Neil Catic searches for the best chestnuts out of his harvest from the Skyline Chestnut farms nestled in the Santa Cruz Mountains. (Photo by Sammy Dallal) La Honda’s Skyline ...

‶Everybody loves the reindeer. It’s not just the kids,″ says Jessica Devine, who handles community relations for Chestnut Hill Farm in Southborough. Three years ago, staff and volunteers at the farm ...