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[Spidra Webster <spidra@speakeasy.net>]

It's believable to me that there's a shortage. Not only has interest in edible gardening been rising for the past 5 years, but the economic depression has made that interest go into overdrive. And the media has picked up on it, which means more articles and TV segments about edible gardening which reach even more people. The good news for organizations like NAFEX and CRFG is that we can increase our membership if we reach out to these new gardeners.

On May 12, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Ernest Plutko wrote:

Drove 180 miles round trip to a nursery yesterday to buy Evans

cherry.  Price now is $45.00.  Last year the price was $28.00. 

Didn't buy any, too expensive. Supposedly, there is a fruit tree

shortage.  Sounds like the gas shortage or the past coffee shortage

or past sugar shortage.  Massive inflation is coming.  $20.00 loaf of

bread?

Megan Lynch

Berkeley, CA

CRFG, NAFEX: I'm in USDA Zone 9b

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