When the chill of winter sets in, certain traditions bring warmth and nostalgia to households worldwide. Among them is the iconic image of chestnuts roasting on an open fire, a seasonal ritual that ...

AUGUSTA — The Viles Arboretum has been working since the 1980s to bring back the American chestnut tree, which was thought to be lost after a blight from Asia in the early 1900s. Arboretum officials ...

About 2,500 feet above Palo Alto in the Santa Cruz Mountains, there’s a 20-acre farm that nurtures a rare crop for this area: chestnuts. Skyline Chestnuts is the only such farm in the Bay Area, and ...

Jack Frost might nip at your nose. Tiny tots will find it hard to sleep on Christmas Eve. But the opening lyrics to Nat King's Cole's 1946 classic, "The Christmas Song," probably falls flat with most ...

Sorting through this year’s crop of chestnuts, Debbie Milks, left, and Tina Haladay look for bad nuts at Chestnut Charlie’s, 1840 E. 1450 Road. Workers are already picking through rows of trees as ...

Christina travels to an ancient town in Tuscany that has produced chestnuts for centuries. Chestnuts have been a food source for thousands of years. They can be eaten raw, roasted, ground into flour, ...