American Chestnuts. anyone growing them?

just wondering what your experience has been, where did you get them? what variety? B3F3? genetically modified with wheat?

I bought a bunch of Dunstan chestnuts a few years ago. They are healthy and growing well, and some started bearing about three years. They are now five years old and bearing a few lbs each year. I am very happy with them. I bought them at chestnuthilltreefarm.com. These are not true American chestnuts, but are cross bred with them.

I also gave them as gifts to others for Christmas that year, and all of them are growing well also. Some are growing in heavy shade, some in open fields, some in wet heavy clay. Zone 6A and B, north america.

People grow them around me. Out west blight isn't an issue because we lack summertime humidity. Blight is present but can't activate unless overhead irrigation is used

They're wonderful trees. They grow tall and are living skyscrapers of bee forage, in spite of being wind pollinated

I found a pair of trees in an orchard that seems to be mostly abandoned. One only had empty husks, and showed blight on the trunk; the other doesn't have signs of blight. Last autumn, we found nine chestnuts; I gave three away, and kept some, which I kept cold until they began to sprout, after which I sowed them in the meadow. So far, three have survived; all but one was eaten by deer, but two of those, who were growing in richer soil under an old pile of branches, have resprouted and look healthy.