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Sandy Russell on Chestnut Operational Maturity
Season 4 Episode 1
Chestnut operational maturity is the difference between a hobby orchard and a resilient business. In this episode of Branching Out, I am joined by Sa…
20 hours ago
High-Tech Harvest: Transforming Orchards with Drone Technology
Season 4 Episode 3
Can a drone really change the way you manage a chestnut orchard? This week, I’m sitting down with Caleb Canter from AeroAg to talk about the leap fro…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Welcome to The Chestnut Blueprint
Season 4 Episode 2
While much of American agriculture is stuck in debt and overproduction, a quiet revolution is growing beneath the canopy of chestnut trees. In this e…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Branching Out Growing Together OffShoot Edition -Messy Middle
Season 4 Episode 1
Messy in the Middle: What It Really Looks Like to Build a Chestnut Orchard (and an Industry) What happens after the excitement of planting trees fade…
2 months ago
Roger Blackwell on Growing a National Chestnut Movement
Season 3 Episode 11
Melanie Jones sits down with Roger Blackwell, President of Chestnut Growers of America, to talk about the momentum building in the U.S. chestnut indu…
5 months, 3 weeks ago
What the Heck is SEO (and Why Chestnut Growers Should Care)
Season 3
🌐 What the Heck is SEO (and Why Should Chestnut Growers Care?)
Hi friends—Melanie Jones here with United Chestnuts, and today we’re breaking down a b…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
Ecdysis at EBB Farms: Inside the 1000 Farms Initiative
Season 3 Episode 10
Today we’re out in the orchard with Nora D’Antuono from the Ecdysis Foundation, talking real‑world regenerative agriculture: soil health that sticks,…
7 months ago
OffShoot Edition - Reserve Chestnut Seedlings and Chestnuts Now
Season 3
🎙️ Branching Out: Growing Together
At EBB Farms, our Grow-Bag Strategy makes all the difference. We raise each seedling in a three-gallon breathable g…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Regenerative Roots: Willie Huston on Farming, Music, and Land Legacy
Season 3 Episode 9
At Pick N Grin Farm in western Kentucky, Willie Huston is doing more than raising crops—he’s cultivating a way of life rooted in observation, resilie…
7 months, 2 weeks ago
Finding Your Why: The Deeper Reasons We Grow Chestnuts
Season 3 Episode 8
What drives you to grow chestnuts—not just in year one, but year ten? In this episode, Melanie revisits a question that keeps surfacing in our orchar…
8 months ago