Issues regarding food safety including legislation

All the issues about planning, planting and maintaining a chestnut orchard.

Discuss equipment, sorting, grading, storage, and any related issues.

Everything about the many cultivars out there -- taste, adaptability to an area, attributes, etc.

Get help or offer help on pests and diseases and means of controlling them.

Comments and questions about how to market, where to market, legal requirements, packaging, etc.

Express your ideas, questions and concerns about USDA and other standards and how they affect the growers.

The pros and cons of organic agriculture. What's different about sustainable agriculture?

Let us know about your association's next meeting or orchard tour anywhere in the world.

Let us know all the good news about the nutritional values of chestnuts.

Add your favorite chestnut breakfast recipes -- pancakes, scones, etc. If they're not original make sure to credit the source.

Enter your recipes for turkey stuffing, brussel sprouts with chestnuts, pasta with chestnuts, use your imagination. Make sure to credit the source.

All your recipes for baked goods and/or desserts using chestnuts. Make sure to credit the source.

Do you have any special recipes for chestnut bisque or other type of chestnut soup? How about beverages, snacks and sandwiches? Make sure to credit the source.

If you know of an event of interest to cooks let us know.

Let's share your recommendations for restaurants whose chefs prepare exemplary chestnut dishes.

What works/what doesn't? Got special tricks to peel chestnuts? Found a way to use shells as mulch? Do the dogs like them?

Feel free to introduce yourself to our user community if you wish -- where are you from, what do you grow?