Why an ex-Googler just opened a chestnut farm in rural Pennsylvania
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Can regenerative farming also regenerate communities? This Black farmer believes so.
In the 1800s, the United States was full of chestnuts. Then, in 1904, someone accidentally introduced a fungus from Asia that wiped out the entire population of chestnut trees on the East Coast. More than a century later, chestnuts still aren’t a big part of the American diet.