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 ...

In the panoply of smells that mark the transition of fall into winter, few are more evocative than chestnuts roasting on an open fire. The aroma that inspired the first line of Mel Torme’s “The ...

You can grow chestnuts in Southern California. You will need to incorporate lots of compost and gypsum in the soil prior to planting since chestnut trees (Castanea spp.) appreciate a somewhat acidic ...