Comments by "Wakeup and Sniff the Coffee" (@Wakeupandsniffthecoffee) on "The Appalachian Storyteller" channel.

  1. This year I bought three hybrid American Chestnut trees to plant on my property in Virginia. I may not be around long enough to ever see one grow that large.
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  2. I was born in California, moved as a child to Hawaii and lived there into my 50's and finally moved to Oregon and then Virginia. I feel a certain kinship to the mountains and country. The music, the lives, the land, farming and raising animals. I'm retired in Virginia with a piece of property and animals, gardening and farming in small plots and couldn't be much happier, but still feel a drive to at least visit Appalachia and the mountains.
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  3. ​ @nativeamericanfeather9948 it's really too bad how many of us don't really have roots anymore.
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  4. Actually the American Chestnut trees are pretty fast growers from what I've learned.
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  5. Your video and further research on the American Chestnut trees really hit hard on my heart. I was sad about it and then after researching I found that people created a hybrid of the American Chestnut tree. This hybrid blended both trees to become resistant to the Chestnut blight brought to America, that killed off some many of these forests. I bought a few varieties from Whitetail farms, the difference is when they produce chestnuts. Some have an early crop and others produce late into the fall and winter. I've been growing them in large pots, but after a year they need to be planted in a permanent home. I realized that while I could grow them on my 1.6 acres, eventually they would outgrow the space, being top story trees. I recently contacted the parks department of Newport News. Virginia and am happy to say they agreed to give them a home in the Newport News Park. They plan to plant them in April and I can't wait. At over 8,000 acres, these trees will have an excellent home. One day I hope my future generations will be able to view these trees in all their magnificent glory. Also, the nuts will feed the wildlife of the park. I have never seen one before my small plantings and would love to see some of the long lost bases of these trees. I refer to them as the redwoods of the east coast. The pictures of people actually living in the dead trucks of these trees is awe inspiring.
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  6. I have to say that I'm surprised you don't do narrations for Disney or other films. You remind me if the old Disney films I grew up with.
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