LEADING BY EXAMPLE
The American chestnut tree survived all adversaries for 40 million years, then disappeared within 40
Ken Blenk is bringing them back and, he’s doing it properly. All his trees and nuts are American Chestnut (castanea dentata) grown all naturally, completely non-GMO, and never backcrossed with any hybrids.
HISTORY OF CASTENEA DENTATA
More than a century ago, nearly four billion American chestnut trees were growing in the eastern U.S. They were among the largest, tallest, and fastest-growing trees. The wood was rot-resistant, straight-grained, and suitable for furniture, fencing, and building. The nuts fed billions of wildlife, people and their livestock. It was almost a perfect tree, that is, until a blight fungus killed it more than a century ago. The chestnut blight has been called the greatest ecological disaster to strike the world’s forests in all of history.