We
can accept no more orders for seedlings until fall, when this notice
is changed and the 2008 price is announced in the newsletter.
To take part in the American Chestnut Cooperators' Foundation seedling and/or
nut distribution, you fill out and sign a Cooperating
Grower Agreement Form
and send with a check made out to ACCF for your annual contribution of $20.
New grower orders are submitted on the Grower
Agreement Form (above). Orders from established growers must
be accompanied by the annual report of your surviving American chestnuts
(unless we already have your report on file). Mail to: ACCF,
Forest Service Road 708, Newport, VA 24128. Growers
whose Agreement Forms we already have on file, need not send another form,
except to indicate change of address, phone or e-mail.
The REPORT FORM is at accf-online.org/greport.htm: send in your reports as soon as you are able.
The ACCF offers chestnut grafting instruction, to members by appointment, mornings in the month of April at the Blacksburg airport demonstration plot. This instruction does not include nut- or bench-grafting, but is limited to grafting in the field on established root systems. Contact Lucille via e-mail (bottom of this page) and propose a date that is not on a weekend.
It is never too early to establish defenses to keep deer out of your plantings: here in Virginia, where the deer herd is out of control, we must protect all chestnut seedlings and grafts with staked weld wire cages, 5 feet tall and at least 2.3 feet in diameter.
Before you ask that question, PLEASE check our other pages which hold most of the answers.
Last updated 07/17/2008