T-shirt days, leafy trees, vegetable seeds, apple blossoms and bumblebees… it’s gotta be spring! It’s our first here at GTG and we ain’t wastin’ any time.

Our priority for this year was to get roots in the ground. Literally. And so, as our first order of trees came in, we transformed an old, overgrazed pasture into a chestnut orchard.

This first bunch was Chinese chestnut. Eighty of ’em. Why Chinese? Because American chestnuts are susceptible to chestnut blight, a deadly fungus to which the Chinese are mostly immune. We’re still growing Americans here, to carry the genetics forward, but we decided against a whole orchard of them.

We’ll also plant a hybrid chestnut, a mix breed of Chinese and American, for the blight-resistance of the Chinese trees and the cold-hardy traits of the American.

If all goes well, this first planting should begin producing nuts in about three years. We cannot wait!

Get ready for some nuts, y’all.