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["Stephen Sadler" <Docshiva@Docshiva.org>]

It’s good to hear the CRFG bulletin board is still up and running.  Bill G. was talking about deactivating it.  I’ve found it to be an underused but useful board. 

I’ve volunteered to set up and maintain an email group for CRFG.  Here was the reply:

 

“Stephen,

Thanks. We do have a bulletin board but usage is very infrequent. Take a look at http://www.crfg.org/phpbb, where you'll see just a few of the topics but you when you join (and I approve) you see many more. We get more spam attempts than actual users. Most people that I know are involved with Cloud Forest or Leo Manuel's Rare Fruit mailing list.”

 

BTW, I had joined (and he had approved) over a year before this mail.  If CRFG has an interest in the future, I would still set up an email group.  I own a group, and moderate three.  I do belong to Rarefruit and Cloud Forest, and find good information and other CRFG members.  They are excellent resources for us warmer-region fruit explorers.  Location-specific concerns can be addressed, and I’ve corresponded with members who are very nearby.

 

Myrica rubra is mentioned in the CRFG fruit list, but there’s no information.  I don’t see it mentioned in the boards, but I may have missed it.

 

From: nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:nafex-bounces@lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Spidra Webster
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 8:08 PM
To: North American Fruit Explorers
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Yumberry, Myrica rubra

 

On Mar 8, 2008, at 7:40 PM, Lon J. Rombough wrote:

Too bad the California Rare Fruit Growers don't have a discussion list.  Myrica rubra is grown by a number of their members.  There have been articles about it in their magazine.  There may be sources listed on their website, www.crfg.org

-Lon Rombough

 

Well, CRFG has several different online fora and discussion lists so I think what's missing here is one single list that CRFG members all over the world participate in.  I don't know why, but most CRFG members I've met are a lot less keen on online stuff than  the NAFEX members on this list.

 

The one online thing I know about that is accessible to CRFG members regardless of chapter affiliation AND the general public is the CRFG Bulletin Board. It's used very lightly despite the efforts of a couple members to invigorate it.  But CRFG President Bill Grimes is still operating the board for the time being so you're welcome to register and post there and I'll make a point of telling other CRFG members that there's a question there on Myrica rubra for them to answer.

 

www.crfg.org/phpbb

 

The current issue of The Fruit Gardener has an article on yumberry, in fact.  I haven't had the chance to go to an Asian market so I can sample what it tastes like and decide whether to grow it.

 

Megan Lynch

 

Berkeley, CA  Zone 9b