With a bit of extra care and a lot of natural light, you can have a beautiful home orchard in no time.

About 20 amateur arborists and local property owners got to the root of good tree maintenance practices Saturday morning at Runge Nature Conservation Center in Jefferson City.

But thanks in part to trees planted in areas where the two fungi don’t grow well, the American chestnut isn’t extinct. And efforts to revive it in its native range have continued, despite the long ...