Seeking Volunteers for Outreach Event
2024 Outreach Opportunities
Lancaster Native Plants & Wildlife Festival | Lancaster, PA
Twelfth Wild Earth Fest | Mountainside, NJ
Central PA Native Plant Fest | State College, PA
Environmental Day | Hanover, PA
ECO Event at Codorus State Park | Hanover, PA
Duncannon AT Festival | Duncannon, PA
Ag Progress Days | Pennsylvania Furnace, PA
August 14, Wednesday 9:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
August 15 Thursday 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Milford, PA | Grey Towers
10/27-29/2024
Autumn Lights Festival | West Milford, NJ
Spring Growers Meeting Slide Show
TACF Chestnut Chat
Coming up …
Evolution of Castanea and Cryphonectria
Join us February 16, 2024, from 11:30AM – 1:00PM (EPT), for the next LIVE Chestnut Chat. In this edition, Joanna Malukiewicz will discuss the interplay in the evolution of Castanea and the chestnut blight fungus (Cryphonectria parasitica). Listen in to learn about the fascinating history of ancient natural hybridization among chestnut species across East Asia, Europe, and North America, and whether or not hybridization has played any role in the relative blight resistance or susceptibility of the extant chestnut species.
Volunteer Workdays 2024:
Get All-In, On Restoring the American chestnut Tree!
Sign up to join hands-on volunteer work at Penn State University. Contact our Orchard Manager to sign up to be kept in the loop on upcoming volunteer days.
Noah Vincent, PSU Orchard Manager
484-725-4044 | nev5073@psu.edu
Targeted American Chestnut Conservation Missions
In order to help achieve our wild American conservation objectives, Chapter Board Member, Lake Graboski is setting up targeted “American Chestnut Conservation Missions”. Each mission will identify areas of special interest to our breeding program. We encourage individual hikers and local conservation groups to join these missions to help search for American chestnuts.
Mission #1: Southwestern PA (Issued 6/3/2022)
Mission #2 Southern New Jersey
Returning to the Historic Allen Theatre
We are excited to return to the Allen Theatre in Annville, PA for our 2024 Spring Growers Meeting. We met here 2 years ago as we came out of the isolation of the pandemic and it was a delight. Located at 36 East Main Street in Annville, the theatre was originally known as the Hippodrome in the early 1900s. Later known as the Aster theater the story of this small-town theater on Main Street is similar to the stories of many of its kind. Small and serving a rural community it operated as a second-run theatre, declining in the ’60s and ’70s with the rise of malls and shopping centers it was forced to close down in the ’80s.
That could have been the end of this story but in the early nineties, the fates smiled on Annville and its closed-down theatre. A local grandmother, Mary Jane Hicks (1915-2006) won the Pennsylvania State Lottery and funded the restoration of the theatre and adjoining café under the direction of her son Skip. The theatre was reopened as the Allen Theatre on September 21, 1995, in memory of Skip’s father, Allen Hicks who had passed away in 1981. The Allen Theatre provides a nostalgic experience with all the perks of a modern facility including a cool cafe and very comfy seating.
Annville is one of those charming small towns that dot the rural landscape of Pennsylvania. Located in Lebanon County, east of Hershey, PA, and north of Lancaster, PA. It is home to Lebanon Valley College. Parking is free and we will be providing a map to help with that.
PARKING: Free public parking is available.