Summer of Food Forests: The Chestnut Grove in Highbridge Park

New York Restoration Project (NYRP) works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees, promote urban agriculture, and build partnerships that transform the city’s landscape. Together with community members NYRP works to make NYC a greener and more resilient city.

Visit the Chestnut Grove in Highbridge Park established by friends at New York Restoration Project (NYRP) in partnership with NYC Parks Dept and longtime American Chestnut Conservationist Bart Chezar. Learn how NYRP has been working to bring back the functionally extinct American Chestnut, by establishing a hybridized variety created to withstand the original Chestnut Blight that destroyed our American Chestnut population.