Hybrid Chestnuts with Dick Jaynes

The Forest Garden

With the chestnut harvest season approaching, we have our annual chestnut themed episode today with a true living legend in the field of tree crops research, Dick Jaynes. On today’s episode we discuss Dick’s decades of research on hybrid chestnuts, specific cultivars that emerged from his breeding work, limitations to commercial chestnut growing, Nut Tree Culture in North America (the handbook he published with the Northern Nut Growers Association) and a variety of other related topics. If you are interested in reading some of Dick's published work, try searching google scholar or jstor for Richard A. Jaynes with keywords like chestnut or Castanea. Alternatively, you could try to hunt down a copy of Nut Tree Culture in North America. The book is out of print, but resellers are still circulating copies. Finally, if you join the Northern Nut Growers Association you can gain access to a massive pdf that is a digitized version of all of the NNGA annual reports, where Dick contributed for many years. Linked below are a few of his published articles that don't require a school or library login to view. Finally, check out Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, CT for all of your rare tree and plant needs! Links: Sample of published works: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/DOCUMENTS/Publications/Bulletins/B657pdf.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=7aatGd2WqCAC&oi=fnd&pg=PP5&dq=richard+a+jaynes&ots=x7yuqO5Agc&sig=eMyyQKlOoO9__UN7AO6xZUSZBno#v=onepage&q=richard%20a%20jaynes&f=false Lockwood Farm & Sleeping Giant Plantation: https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/DOCUMENTS/Biographies/Anagnostakis/LOCKWOOD-FARM-chestnuts.pdf https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/DOCUMENTS/Biographies/Anagnostakis/PLANTATION.pdf https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/CAES/DOCUMENTS/Biographies/Anagnostakis/Chestnut-Work-at-CAES.pdf Broken Arrow Nursery: https://www.brokenarrownursery.com/ https://www.instagram.com/brokenarrownursery/