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Hamden's Lockwood Farm, Others Look To Bring Back Connecticut Chestnuts
The farm is part of an experiment that hopes to create chestnuts that are blight-resistant, a fungus that has killed off most of the crop in the area.
Recently, 100 chestnut trees were planted at Hamden's Lockwood Farm in an effort to bring back the Connecticut chestnut market.
Overall, 320 modified chestnut trees - half of them seeds, half of them seedlings - will be planted throughout Connecticut this year as part of an experiment by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station and Pinchot Institute to see the best way to grow chestnut trees, according to the New Haven Register. One-hundred of those trees will be planted at Lockwood Farm on Evergreen Ave in Hamden, according to the Register.
New England used to be a hotbed for growing chestnuts, but blight - a fungus - destroyed the area's population, according to the New Haven Register. The plants planted this week at Lockwood Farm are part-American, part-Chinese, and hopefully are blight-resistant, according to the Register.
The goal is to regain the once-prominent chestnut crop in the area, according to the New Haven Register.
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