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  • From: Douglas Hinds <cedecor@gmx.net>
  • To: nafex mailing list at ibiblio <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] Fwd: Johny A.
  • Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2012 14:46:48 -0600

On 11/11/2012 10:29 AM, Alan Haigh wrote:
From: Alan Haigh<alandhaigh@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 9:59 AM
Subject: Johny A.
To:nafex-request@lists.ibiblio.org

>That isn't to take away from Johnny. He was an apple authority and went
around the country helping folks and propagated popular varieties by grafting.
Actually, according to Pollan's book, Johny thought grafting was devil's
work and that God wanted trees to grow just as they were from seed.
God and Johnny aren't the only ones. Count me in on that two.

How important is it to me? I left the USA due to the relative dearth of fruit from seedling trees there in 1974 and I still don't eat fruit from trees that _aren't_ on their own roots. In fact, fruit from seedling trees is the principle staple food of my diet and at 70, I have not yet begun to go downhill.

An article explaining the reasons why was published in the *1973 California Rare Fruit Growers Yearbook* (the year before I left). Steve Diver asked for for a copy and I e-mailed it to him about 12 years ago. (If Steve is on nafex I'd appreciate being sent a copy, since I don't have it on hand at this time. And if not, Lawrence - I assume you have his current contact data, and I hope you can do me the favor of sending this on to him).

Grafting is unnecessary and creates more problems than it solves. Logically, those subscribing to organic, biological, alternative, sustainable and ecological (as well as permaculture and biodynamic) agriculture would recognize the importance of respecting and maintaining the integrity of the individual organism as a fundamental and unalterable principle, yet no movement (that I'm aware of) has taken up the cause and I think I (along with other sympathetic individuals and groups) need to do something about that. (It's on the agenda we've established with CUCBA, our local Agricultural, Biological, Environmental and Animal Sciences Faculty) <www.cucba.udg.mx> and as time and funding permit, we will be moving ahead with it.

That's all for now, but I can elaborate further if this post generates any interest to that effect.

Douglas Hinds,

Director General
Centro para el Desarrollo Comunitario y Rural, A.C.

Coordinator
Alianza para la Responsibilidad Ecologica y Social en el Desarrollo
(CUCBA, FEPRJ, CNC Jalisco, CeDeCoR A.C.)

Chair
Organic Pineapple Working Group
International Society for Horticultural Science

Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico





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