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

[dan at openaccess.org]

Nick

I would love to trade seed.... Not that I have much right now. Am trying
to get some interesting ones and will share if it happens. I also gotta go
for now will check in later. Thanks for  the encouraging words. I am in
Bellingham Washington, but was on Orcas for many years until 2 years ago.

Dan

> Seedgeeks post:
>> 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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