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  • From: "Christopher Mauchline" <mauch1@aol.com>
  • To: nafex@yahoogroups.com
  • Subject: [nafex] Re: So what is the point?
  • Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 14:11:41 -0000

I'm going to jump in on this. (I'm somewhat inspired by the book I
mentioned in an earlier message [which I haven't finished]).

What's the point?

This:

If NAFEX dies, we lose wealth. I.e. social capital. We (as members)
have, to some degree, our fruit growing lives (and sometimes beyond
that) made easier. We exchange information, seeds, scions that would
have more cost to us in time, energy, or money to locate and
determine. We pay back into the system by contributing ourselves.
As the circle shrinks more value is lost.

What can we do?

I'm not sure. Some on this forum have offered some ideas that may
help. But we're bucking a national trend. The Boomers and GenX do
not join organizations like the GI generation did (they do join more
as they age, but never at the rate or involvement of their forebears).
And the millenial "cohort" is too young to know their involvement
trend.

Chris Mauchline
(on the cusp between Boom and GenX)







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