Maine Chapter of the
American Chestnut Foundation
Established in 1998
Announcements
The annual meeting of the ME chapter will be held on Sat., Oct 23 in Orono, ME at the Senior Citizens Center next the new public library. We will start at 9: am with "Meet and Greet" and have a full morning at the Center. At noon we will break for lunch. In the afternoon we will visit the Veazie orchard, which was planted in 2005, then travel to Bradley. At Bradley (Penobscot Experimental Forest) there is an orchard that was planted in 2006, and then to Leonard's Mills to see the two B3-F3 trees that are 2 years old and were transplanted in May of this year. And finally out to the edge of PEF to see where the first seed orchard might be planted. We should be finished by 3 pm.
To Contact ME-TACF:
call: 207 945 6945
email: glenrea42@msn.com
write: ME-TACF
231 Buck Street
Bangor, Maine 04401
We would like to note the passing of our dear friend and long time ME-TACF member, Austin M. Jones, who left us on January 15, 2009. For more about Austin, please click on photo.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT BC3F3 (SUPER) SEEDS FROM
The American Chestnut Foundation!!
TACF and ME-TACF are excited to announce that The American Chestnut Foundation’s breeding program is beginning to bear fruit--NUTS to be exact! Beginning in the Spring of 2009, TACF will make available for purchase a limited supply of chestnut (super) seeds. These sixth generation potentially blight-resistant BC3F3 seeds are the result of TACF’s on-going breeding program at the Meadowview Research Farm in Virginia and the various state chapters. Currently, Meadowview is the only producing BC3F3 seed orchard. (Click here for Maine Breeding Program Update).
Approximately 1000 seeds from the 2008 Meadowview harvest will be available to the first 200 members of TACF. Dr. Garold Thumm, a retired professor of political science from Bates College, is the only person in Maine to be in the top 200 members who will receive 5 seeds. He is donating them to the Maine chapter and we will start them indoors and plant them outside this spring. Eventually, we hope to plant them on Bates College land - in honor of Dr. Thumm who is now 93 years old.
To be eligible for TACF blight-resistant BC3F3 super seeds, you MUST be a member of TACF. Seeds will be made available to TACF members on a seniority basis. To find out more, please click here or contact ME-TACF.
Please join us in our efforts to restore the American Chestnut. Become a ME-TACF member and, most importantly, become a volunteer!
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Upcoming Events
ME-TACF Annual Meeting, Saturday October 23, 2010 at the Senior Citizens Center in Orono, Maine from 9am to 3 pm. For more information, please contact Glen Rea at glenrea42@msn.com.
