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On Feb 16, 2005, at 10:30 PM, kieran or donna wrote:
. . .   I asked a SSE member in Indiana how she could maintain 150 
varieties of
> beans without a lot of crossing, she said she was in serious farm 
> country,
> and so much pesticide was used that they had no pollinators left at 
> all.
> She had to hand pollinate her squashes and melons.

Wow!