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["tanis cuff" <tanistanis@hotmail.com>]

What kind of contingency plans are NAFEXers making for their plantings?  I'm 
thinking mostly of those explorers who are doing increases on their 
collections of great selections, and breeders who are making crosses and 
looking 20 or 30 years ahead.  For example, a plum breeder could lose a year 
just because of a cold at blossom time.  Examples from the list include a 
nursery owner who had a temporarily disabling bike accident, & someone who 
had to move a 10-year-old orchard because of a land-use dispute, and most 
recently the death of Tom V of "Applesource" (which is a service rather than 
an orchard, but same principle applies.)

I have a couple nice chance-seedling apples which I hope I'll share with 
enough people (and how many are "enough"?!) before I quit gardening in 4 or 
40 years.  But I'd like to learn what the more serious explorers & breeders 
have planned for preserving/continuing their work.