To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Edible Acorns
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:59:45 -0500
Oh, Michael, so you are harking back to my original story and the attitude
of the ACF toward acorns. Well, the irony was that the acorns in question
were, according to the naturalist, the first ones he'd ever found that were
as edible fresh as chestnuts. He thought, seeing as he was among fellow
enthusiasts of at least one kind of nut, that they would be interested in an
amazing find in some other species. Not so. The ACF is a group with a goal
and an agenda. The are not like NAFEX, they are focused so closely on just
two species: the American chestnut and the chestnut blight, that they close
out all other species.... like for example phytopthera root rot and chestnut
gall mites. The phytopthera may reduce the impact of the hard work they
have done. But I do have to admire them for their desire to conserve the
wide range of germplasm still existing. But it was far from the reaction
he'd have gotten from a room full of NAFEXers.
Well, I was a little aggravated there to think you were simply
dismissing acorns altogether. Donna