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  • From: hector black <hblack@twlakes.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] changing jobs - fruit interests
  • Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:01:17 -0700

hello Rob,
I would be glad to correspond a bit if you would send me your personal
email address. Not sure my journey or ideas would be of much general
interest.
Hector

----- Original Message -----
From: "rob hamilton" <lostman_amiga@yahoo.com>
To: <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 9:03 AM
Subject: [NAFEX] changing jobs - fruit interests


> Hello all,
>
> This may be odd place to talk about this, and I dont
> know if anyone can really offer me any real advice
> about this, but I am not sure where to go.
>
> I am pretty new a fruit culture, but I am finding it
> really interesting...more interesting than what I am
> doing now.
>
> Let me back-up a bit.
> I am about 36 years old and I am working at Spelman
> College and lab tech and teacher of Computer Graphics.
>
> It's a nice job with pretty good perks, but I am not
> as interested in computers as I once was. For a while
> now, I have been just floating along with no real
> interest in anything. I bought my first house about 6
> years ago with 1/4 acre lot. I had no interest in
> plants at all then (which is why I got the small lot),
> but with constant prodding of the guy next door to
> keep my lawn cut, the issue of yardwork was forced
> upon me. After 2 years of mowing and cutting hedges, I
> begin to tell people that "grass does not put food on
> the table, so why am I spending so much time with
> it!". I thought about what I said and it clicked. If I
> am going to work in the yard, it needs to be something
> I enjoy. Suddenly, I thought fruit trees! Why not! So
> I started and haven't stopped yet. Now most of my free
> time I am reading books and web pages and planting
> anything and everything in the yard. I have planted
> many trees and bushes. I have met many wonderful
> people who have encouraged me. Most of them on this
> list! I have learned more that I have ever wanted to
> know about fruit culture and I am still a novice. I
> have rooted my first cutting last year and budded my
> first tree this spring. I seem to be getting deeper
> and deeper in to the hobby with no way out. :)
>
> Today I see a crossroad coming and I am not sure of
> what to do. Do I keep this as just a hobby (and get
> buy more land) or do I make it really work for me. I
> have no formal training in horticulture. Do I go back
> to school, and if so what do I do when I get out? Will
> this be a fruit thing be just a passing fancy, or will
> I start breeding my own cultivars.
>
> I know, these are questions I need answer myself, but
> I always found it good to hear for others about their
> journeys and what they do.
>
> Anyone care to share?
>
>
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