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 ...

Brown, curled leaves on an American Chestnut tree indicate it was killed by blight. Ed Suba Jr. Tribune News Service Q: I’ve read that white tail deer enjoy chestnuts, and there is a variety called ...

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.

Michael Peterson of Eastover Nut Farm in Richland County grows Dunstan chestnuts, because they’re easy to peel and taste sweeter than European imports, without the tannic tang that chestnut detractors ...

n the early part of this century, there was nothing that could protect the once-beautiful American chestnut from a bark fungus, accidently introduced from the Orient. The blight, first discovered in ...