Alachua, FL (August 1, 2025) – If the goal is attracting more deer with natural food, nothing beats Dunstan Chestnuts. Chestnuts once reigned supreme over the eastern hardwood forests, not just ...
Since the introduction of chestnut blight to North America in the early 1900s, American chestnuts very rarely reach maturity. They sprout but are killed by the blight once they reach a certain size.
The eastern United States is haunted by ghosts of towering giants. They once dominated their lands, but have since disappeared to near total extinction. Their landscapes have moved on without them, ...
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 ...