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  • From: Phil Norris <COUSINPHIL@ACADIA.NET>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: Re: [nafex] there's hope
  • Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 20:51:56 -0400

Yes, nicely said indeed, Del. I have had similar aspirations for
about 10 years now. But at some point along the line I realized
that the trees themselves are quite beautiful and worth growing even
if you never got a single fruit from them. And if you do happen to
harvest some good apples at some point, well then Deah.......

Phil Norris
East Blue Hill, Maine
Z4

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>This stubborn belief in humanity is part of what powers me into this crazy
>business of planting orchards where none exist, and local experts say it's
>impossible. The dream that in 10 years I'll have a fruit stand selling 25
>kinds of apples and 25 kinds of various other fruit varieties to a
>population that has only imported stuff to eat. And the hope that they will
>actually believe it, and be interested, even if the fruit is 'cosmetically
>challenged'. And if that fails, my wife and our friends will have all we
>can eat, and I've had a blast trying. And in nafex i've met a fine group of
>folk. Mn. Del
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