How Do You Restore a Chestnut Forest or an Apple Orchard? Very Slowly.
20 July 2024 at 07:29
This botanic garden is determined to bring back the American chestnut tree and heirloom apples that taste like those grown 500 years ago. It won't be easy. Margaret Roach for the NYT. "When you operate a botanic garden, you hope that it's here in perpetuity," he said, and you work with that horizon in mind, not just the current year's displays. "You expect that this property, that this garden is going to survive long past anyone who's actively managing it."