Chestnuts Return to America
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
From: Guy Hand
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After a blight killed most of America's chestnut trees back in the 1930s and 40s, a new industry has sprouted up using new varieties of blight-resistant chestnuts. Producer Guy Hand visits one of those chestnut groves.
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Chestnuts
Edible Idaho Feature: 1216GH_Chestnuts.wav Feature 4:00 12/16/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] This is Edible Idaho with Guy Hand, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food. (4:00 to soc out)
[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to radio.boisestate.org/edibleidaho.
[SCRIPT]
Paul: Think we got a rainstorm coming in Guy. Hand: Guess so.
Hand: On a dark November day, Peggy Paul and I are walking through her commercial chestnut orchard near Nampa. It looks more like an enchanted forest.
Hand: They’re a beautiful tree. I mean they could be an ornamental landscape tree. Paul: Very, very beautiful tree. And as you can see the wood, that chestnut wood is just phenomenal, like a very golden, beautiful color. And it’s very hard.
Hand: And relatively rare. A blight killed most of America’s chestnut trees in the 1930s and 40s. They’re only now coming...
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