Chestnut Breeding Presentations at the County Fair

Join us Saturday August 9 at the Grayson County Fair at the Grayson LandCare table. Clint Morse will discuss exciting developments of American Chestnut breeding and teach a new testing method. He will demonstrate the oxalic testing method at 9:30, 10:30 and 11:30 and be available to talk about the program from 9-noon. The test needs to run for 23 hours. Part 2 will be Sunday August 10 at 3pm.

Did you enjoy part 1 and want to learn more about the project? Join us at Clint’s house, please call or email for directions, to learn to read the oxalic test. After the test results, we will visit the new site at Clint’s for a tour of the first of its kind pure American chestnut test orchard. He was recently selected to home 400 seedlings from trees that the American Chestnut Foundation(TACF) known to have some level of resistance from around the country. It is really exciting! Seven years from now when TACF does the blight test in the orchard, we will know just how much resistance Americans actually have. This is part of a new breeding effort in cooperation with Matthews Forest and the American Chestnut Foundation.