Allan “Buzz” Ferver, a 66-year-old with a fetching grin and an Abe Lincoln-style beard, stood at his kitchen island holding a clear plastic bag. Inside was a pale, nondescript meal, a few shades ...

COLUMBUS JUNCTION — It is not all corn and beans in those Midwestern farm fields. Increasingly, alternative crops are raising their heads above the twin monoculture sameness as enterprising farmers ...

ASHEVILLE - Many may recognize “chestnuts roasting on an open fire” as a line from the lyrics of “The Christmas Song,” but fewer probably know how a chestnut looks, smells or tastes. The classic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. American Chestnut Tree Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images From the northernmost reach of the White Mountains and Mahoosuc ...

There’s an old holiday tradition in the U.S. that's become increasingly harder to celebrate: fire-roasted chestnuts. Thanks to an endemic fungus, about 4 billion American chestnut trees were killed ...

As she walks amongst the sea of green, yellow and orange leaves of a chestnut tree orchard, carefully collecting chestnut burrs from the trees, Sara Fitzsimmons, director of restoration for the ...