To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: [NAFEX] new website eleagnus.com
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 17:14:58 -0700
Hi to all my friends here on the group who I've known over the years.
I sure have been busy. I did get a ride with a friend also interested in fruit and wild plants to look this fall for a good autumn olive, and found one, I think the best I've found in 13 years of looking, that I've numbered 15.
Massachusetts, where I am, is hostile to autumn olive, the only state as far as I know where its been made a violation of the law to propagate eleagnus; its my frustration with treating this great and generous plant with hostility that impelled me make this new webpage. It started, though, with a snapshot I took of my chestnut tree, the tree showed so much personality that I had to find a way to use it, so I had my chestnut tree introduce the eleagnus.
I hope to provide more stories in the future in the webpage....for now it'll have to stand alone as I've got other responsibilities. I hope you enjoy the site. If you have any future ideas for a role the website could play in education, promotion of the use of this plant, do tell.
eleagnus.com
Charlie Paradise if you'd like to write to me directly, bekeeprtop@aol.com
[NAFEX] new website eleagnus.com,
alden@waldenwinds.com, 12/28/2009