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  • From: "del stubbsrockyman" <pinewoodel@hotmail.com>
  • To: nafex@egroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] abandoned orchards
  • Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 04:56:20 -0000

dwalsh and wchase
i noticed you are B.C. folk, and it remindd me that 15 years back I was
flying over your fine province and the fellow sitting next to me pointed out
a remote valley that he'd just been in , hired by the Canadian (provincial?)
government to hike into remote homesteads for the sole purpose of cutting
down abandoned apple orchards!!! Presumably to rid the greater area of
potential harbored pests. I wonder if he suceeded? I wonder how many years
and how many orchards and how many old varieties? Could make a person
downright agitated just conjuring it. However, now that that ive let this
cat out of the bag-and i swear its the truth- perhaps there is hope, if a
B.C.er could trace this "program" and get a map of where are now either
rotted stumps or, much better, stumps that have long since sprouted and
are a genetic path to the past. just a thought.
minnesota del


>From: "dwalsh/wchase" <wchase@interchange.ubc.ca>
>Reply-To: nafex@egroups.com
>To: <nafex@egroups.com>
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Online AND Print
>Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 21:40:57 -0800
>
>Jackie,
>
>You don't have to retype the old issues ... a scanner will do it for you.
>
>I did a few articles of the BC Fruit Testers newsletters for our (now
>defunct) web
>page. All text comes out great, drawings need a different program.
>
>Derry
>
>Derry Walsh & Bill Chase email:wchase@interchange.ubc.ca
>Aldergrove, B. C., Canada
>phone/fax (604) 856-9316
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>Home web page http://www.interchange.ubc.ca/wchase/HTML
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: <jakuehn@yourinter.net>
>To: <nafex@egroups.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 9:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Re: Online AND Print
>
>
>: Dear NAFEXers,
>:
>: I've been watching this discussion, sitting back in my chair, but now I
>see that
>: I'm involved, so I'll get involved: I already have all the POMONAs that
>I have
>: been responsible for on computer, and each issue is prepared on the
>computer,
>: except for the final, multiple printings and mailings (I print one copy
>and send
>: that to the printer, who does everything else.) I would be very willing
>to do
>: the sending via email, especially if someone were to talk me through the
>: logistics of setting up the necessary steps to send out all e-issues at
>once,
>: for instance, or as many as possible at once. It would be nice, perhaps,
>to
>: have a small additional compensation for that time, but depending on how
>much
>: time is really involved (it may be quite minimal), would maybe not be
>necessary.
>:
>: Regarding issues prior to Winter 1997, I would also be willing (and here
>I guess
>: compensation seems reasonable) to type them onto computer and make them
>also
>: available.
>:
>: So there's my 2-cents' worth.
>:
>: Good discussion.
>:
>: Now, for me, back to preparing the Winter 2001 issue!
>:
>: Jackie Kuehn
>:
>: PermacultureNo1@aol.com wrote:
>:
>: > As one who proposed this a year or so ago, i have to chime in and
>suggest
>: > that this is entirely up to the editor of POMONA. If she wants to take
>this
>: > on, I think it would be great to have a PAID subscription to POMONA
>delivered
>: > by email, just like i get my HortIdeas or Echo Development Notes.
>: > Obvioiusly, this would require more work and therefore more volunteers.
> In
>: > my experience, volunteers sometimes leave you holding the bag, and in
>this
>: > case it would be the editor who would have to pick up the slack. How
>many
>: > dedicated people do we have who can be SURE they can pitch in if the
>: > volunteer craps out? Eh? Or do we want to pay someone, which opens a
>can of
>: > worms in an organization that has maintained its phenomenal
>affordability
>: > through volunteerism. (I'm thinking of subcontracting the email
>version.)
>: >
>: > Personally, I would love to get POMONA as email delivered to my online
>mail
>: > box quarterly. I could care less if it is on the Web. I can't read
>every
>: > article of the material that comes to me, but whatever makes it to my
>: > computer is subject to a fast and fairly thorough search when I need to
>: > pulltogether everything I have on a topic.
>: >
>: > It seems to me that scanning and offering back issues of POMONA could
>easily
>: > be subcontracted, with someone investing time and energy and the POMONA
>board
>: > or a group of members it designates assuring quality control. This
>would be
>: > revenue for NAFEX and the person who invests the BORING time of
>scanning and
>: > then proof reading every scanned article over and over until perfect.
>I've
>: > obtained Echo Development Notes in that form and this has been great
>when I
>: > do a complete hard drive search for information on a topic.
>: >
>: > So there are two things I'd like to see. 1) My subscription to POMONA
>: > coming online. and 2) All back issues of pomona eventually available
>on
>: > CD-ROM. This is not particularly enjoyable work, so either we pay
>people (or
>: > provide profit sharing in the case of the CD-ROM) or we count on
>volunteers
>: > at the risk of accelerating turnover of the people who are left holding
>the
>: > bag if the volunteers don't come through. (They are volunteers too, of
>: > course.)
>: >
>: > Since I do not have time to do the work, I feel it proper to let the
>people
>: > who would have to arranged for the work to be done to make the
>decision.
>: > Anyone who has the time, software and hardware and is strongly
>motivated can
>: > approach the Board with a proposal to do the job. I'll cheer!
>: >
>: > Dan Hemenway
>: > Barking Frogs Permaculture Center
>: >
>:
>:
>:
>:
>:
>

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