My husband spent the last few years planting a forest of 6,000 trees (oak, maple, chestnut, fir, cherry and larch) for our descendants.
One day, long after our names have been forgotten, someone carr...
Good species pick. Chestnut pays out twice, with edible nuts that grow frequent and copious as the trees mature, while oak acorns rank among the most valuable wildlife foods of any eastern tree.