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Touts chestnuts as food source of great potential; says local farms can grow trees

By Cathy DeDe, Chronicle Managing Editor

Russell Wallack has a mission — “to build the organic chestnut industry to a watershed scale in the Northeast.”

Breadtree Farms LLC, created by Mr. Wallack in 2019 in Greenwich, just received a $1,957,328 USDA Organic Market Development grant toward establishing a $2,777,000 chestnut facility at the former Atwater Farm in Salem.

The chestnut trees are already being grown in Greenwich and Granville.

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