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Asheville’s Sustainable Farms Though the Generations

BARNS! American Chestnut -
Long-Lasting Family Farms Asheville American Chestnut Tobacco Barn- Asheville NC
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American Chestnut trees have played an important role in our forest ecosystems here in the Appalachians. (see earlier post) Back in the day, wildlife prospered with crops thousands of American chestnuts produced every single year.

And the American Chestnut’s durability made it a perfect choice  to use for building barns and homes….a few of which I have seen near Asheville....like this American Chestnut Tobacco Barn you too can see in person.

Paul Gallimore,  founder of Long Branch will tell you that this American Chestnut structure was built around 1920 with locally sawn rough cut lumber from that gallant and now nearly extinct tree.. Gallimore is an educator, author, consultant, and planner in renewable energy, environmental design, permaculture, appropriate technology, and recycling/resource recovery.

 

Resources: Asheville’s Long Branch Environmental Education Center    

Resources:
Slideshow: Asheville Farms and Farmlands for Sale
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7 comments • janeAnne~ 828-776-0773~ for The AT LAST! Mountain Homes and LAND • January 03 2012 11:44AM

Long-Lasting Asheville Family Farms & The American Chestnut Tree

Asheville Farm Homes on the Land-
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The All-American Chestnut Tree
and Asheville’s Long-Lasting Family Farms
and Barns (slideshow)

Around Asheville a hundred years ago, the American Chestnut was a common  sight. In fact,according to Wikipedia,   25 percent of the trees in the Appalachian Mountains were American Chestnut. And there were billions of American Chestnut trees across the range.

So it is startling to realize that this  magnificent hardwood timber tree  today is nearly extinct. In fact, the number of large surviving American Chestnut trees over 60 centimeters (24 in) in diameter within the tree's former range is now probably fewer than 100.

Chestnut Trees of approximately 20 feet in diameter in this turn-of-the-century photograph from the Forest History Society, Inc. 

 

Good News: An Asheville-based nonprofit The American Chestnut Foundation began a special breeding process which has produced the first potentially blight-resistant trees, called Restoration Chestnuts. These wee trees are planted in many locations across the Eastern US…and here at Asheville’s Arboretum. The program  depends on so-called “mother trees” that have Somehow avoided blight long enough to produce seeds. 

More Good News: We are always on the lookout for sustainable farms and land for sale on which you may find and American Chestnut treasure.

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