Chestnuts were once a major food source in the U.S. for Native Americans and enslaved Black Americans. But a fungus killed off billions of American chestnut trees.
Now, there are efforts to revive the trees and bring back chestnuts to the American table. Jacob Fenston of WAMU reports.
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