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[mIEKAL aND <dtv@mwt.net>]

This is a really good question, I've been thinking along the same lines 
myself after viewing the damage the local tornado did last week.  
Luckily I was a good 2 miles from the path of destruction, but a 
village camping park with 150 year old elms & maples is a 2 acre brush 
pile now.  After viewing the havoc I came home & sat in my container 
orchard contemplating what I could have done to prevent 15 years of 
growing from being spred around the county & I really couldn't think of 
anything.

~mIEKAL

On Aug 25, 2005, at 5:17 PM, tanis cuff wrote:

> 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.