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Sweet Flavor Keeps Chestnut Buyers Coming Back for More By CECILIA PARSONS | Associate Editor Be Brighter Off Looking out for our customers is about more than powering companies with renewable energy solutions. It means empowering you — the people behind the business. We meet every partnership with dedicated support, upfront information, and the kind of guidance and expertise that shines a bright light ahead for you and your business. We are JKB Energy, and we’ll see you through. Your Solar Questions Answered 209-668-5303 | JKBENERGY.COM Chestnuts in California have very few pest or disease problems (all photos courtesy Jenni Avila.) Chestnuts are not just a Christmas season specialty. The familiar Christmas song gained this unique tree nut a place at the holiday table, but its sweet flavor places chestnuts among the ingredients for many dishes prepared year-round. Joe and Jenni Avila, chestnut growers in the Modesto area, were familiar with chestnut use in Portuguese cuisine when they began growing chestnuts, but found their customers of diverse ethnic backgrounds value chestnuts for their sweet flavor. The Avila family operation, The Chestnut Farm, grows, harvests, processes and sells chestnuts onsite. Weeks prior to Christmas, in most years, they must hang their ‘sold out’ sign. Not a Native Nut Like most tree nuts grown in California, chestnuts are not native to the state. According to a UC Small Farms report, historically, chestnut tree forests were found in most East Coast states where trees grew to heights of 100 feet and the trunks were three to four feet in diameter. In the early 1900s, the species was decimated by the fungal disease Chestnut blight. More recently, development of a chestnut species tolerant to blight was initiated by State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY). Last year, the university sought deregulation of Darling 58, an American chestnut variety developed using genetic engineering for tolerance to chestnut blight. Continued on Page 62 60 West Coast Nut <strong>Dec</strong>ember 2021
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