Down on the farm
Now through Aug. 7 is National Farmers Market Week. Gov. Ned Lamont is urging Connecticut residents to support local farmers by purchasing locally grown products designated with the Connecticut Grown logo and visiting some of the more than 90 certified farmers markets statewide.
In the Greater Waterbury area, Brass City Harvest runs markets Tuesday-Saturday at the Food Hub, Tuesdays at the Waterbury Senior Center, Wednesdays at the Woodbury Senior Center, Thursday on the Green and Saturdays at Bucks Hill Park; the Watertown Farmers Market takes place on Sundays at the Town Garage on Thomaston Road; the Southbury Farmers’ Market is open Thursdays at 501 Main St. South; and the Thomaston-Twin Pines Farm Stand is Wednesday-Sunday at 121 Blakeman Road.
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New orchard of chestnut trees begins on Cherokee territory
CLARISSA DONNELLY-DEROVEN, Asheville Citizen Times
May 23, 2021
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ASHEVILLE, N.C. (AP) Imagine waking up 150 years ago, opening your window and looking out onto the Southern Appalachians. Within view would be any one of the billions of American chestnut trees that once covered the landscape. Places that are now considered coal country were chestnut country.
Today, not so much. The tree is considered functionally extinct, thanks to a fungus imported in on a tree from Japan in the late 1800s. The airborne fungus, Cryphonectria parasitica, flings its spores onto the American chestnut until its bark develops sickly looking blisters that soon spread throughout its body, destroying the tree’s ability to grow tall enough to reproduce.
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