Fwd: Re: Fwd: [Seedgeeks] pre-meditated veggie grex dissussion

[Nick Routledge]

> It is not that I want to plant just anything that will cross together,
> but
> those that seem to me that they and I will benefit from the association.
> To some extent, we have suffered a paradigm paralysis in keeping to
> varieties and breeding for varieties. Oftimes I suspect we lose more
> than
> we gain by conforming to the "variety paradigm"

I can't begin to tell you how glorious it is to read someone, finally,
who's thinking along those lines. Yer rap has been a great intuition of
mine for sometime now. I so very rarely get to the internet so can, agh,
not afford to devote anywhere near as much time as my excitement affords.
I will print out your piece and take it away to consider it. No idea when
I'll get to a connect yet, but I am relishing being able to spend time
with your piece. A first glance suggests I may have some seed and pointers
for you. Do you use the phone?

Where are you, Dan? I'm in Springfield Oregon where I run a nursery for
the School Garden Project - putting best of breed plants into the hands of
local educators - caretake the local food bank farm, and edit the local
Permaculture Newsletter among other labels.

Yes, my sense is that when we do more to attune our breeding strategies to
the irresistible march of evolution, rather than tailoring them to meet a
fundamentally economic abstraction, then we can really invite synergies to
happen. We bring so much in the way of baggage to the garden, do we not?
Surely this reassesment is is all part and parcel of investing crops with
a deeper ecology, imbuing them, in a manner, with a greater sense of
life's potentialities, oh goodness, I can tell I am rushed and flubbing my
words.

More later, perhaps. Absolutely delighted to stumble across you, mon
bonhomme.

We should be having this conversation on the listserv, shouldn't we?

n.

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