[NAFEX] Edible Acorns

Donna &/or Kieran holycow at cookeville.com
Sat Sep 15 16:59:45 EDT 2007


Oh, Michael, so you are harking back to my original story and the attitude 
of the ACF toward acorns.  Well, the irony was that the acorns in question 
were, according to the naturalist, the first ones he'd ever found that were 
as edible fresh as chestnuts.  He thought, seeing as he was among fellow 
enthusiasts of at least one kind of nut, that they would be interested in an 
amazing find in some other species.  Not so.  The ACF is a group with a goal 
and an agenda.  The are not like NAFEX, they are focused so closely on just 
two species: the American chestnut and the chestnut blight, that they close 
out all other species.... like for example phytopthera root rot and chestnut 
gall mites.  The phytopthera may reduce the impact of the hard work they 
have done.  But I do have to admire them for their desire to conserve the 
wide range of germplasm still existing.  But it was far from the reaction 
he'd have gotten from a room full of NAFEXers.
    Well, I was a little aggravated there to think you were simply 
dismissing acorns altogether.   Donna 




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