Why an ex-Googler just opened a chestnut farm in rural Pennsylvania

Can regenerative farming also regenerate communities? This Black farmer believes so.

In the 1800s, the United States was full of chestnuts. Then, in 1904, someone accidentally introduced a fungus from Asia that wiped out the entire population of chestnut trees on the East Coast. More than a century later, chestnuts still aren’t a big part of the American diet.