Dutch elm disease and chestnut blight have long since routed New Haven’s native elms and chestnuts. Now American beech trees—a keystone species in eastern forests, distinguished by their smooth, elephant-gray bark and leaves lined with spike-tipped veins—are under siege…
Tag Archives: Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Smoke Signals
The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where…
This Week in New Haven (August 2 – 8)
This first week in August musters national and local pride as well as live music both outside the box and just plain outside.
It also signals the beginning of Daily Nutmeg’s annual Summer Reading Month. …
Growing Pains
Some projects require a lifetime of patience. Take, for example, the attempt to rescue the American chestnut tree. …
Smoke Signals
The air is spiced with smoke inside The Owl Shop on College Street, where patrons are puffing on their favorite cigars. It’s a vestige of an earlier New Haven, where…
Farm’s Reach
For 109 years, almost without interruption, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station’s Lockwood Farm in Hamden has…
This Week in New Haven (August 6 – 12)
American exclamations start the week. Then Puerto Rican and British ones finish it. …
Action Station
People show up every weekday at the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven with bugs, sick plants, dirt. …
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