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Re: Edible botanic garden
Penny Coulson of Busselton is the leading person on "seed saving" in
general in WA.
There is also a long standing organisation called "The fruit and nut tree
association" or something similar.
Henry Esbenshade might also have some useful contacts or references.
All can be found in the phone book.
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> From: Victor Guest <vic@daena.eepo.com.au>
> To: Permaculture WA <perma@eepo.com.au>
> Subject: Edible botanic garden
> Date: Sunday, 7 June 1998 20:27
>
> From: helenc@southwest.com.au (Helen Coleman)
> Subject: old message
>
> All contributions gratefully received. If you have any information for
> Helen which is of general interest please reply to PERMA.
>
> ALSO please feel free to contact helenc@southwest.com.au direct.
>
> Warwick and Gillian Rowell at Dunsborough would be good allies for your
> Sustainable Village.
> I don't know if Bill Mollinson has a e-mail address for the seed company
> he speaks about in his address to the Conference last year.
>
> There was some good info at the last PAWA meeting about community
finance.
>
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> Dear Victor,
>
> I am hoping that you can help me. I remember a while ago there was a
> message on the WA Permaculture newsgroup about someone down south (I
think
> it was Donnybrook) who wanted help in saving old varieties of fruit
trees.
>
> I am a member of the committee for the Mandurah Sustainable Village, and
we
> are exploring the possibility of creating an edible botanic garden in
> Mandurah, specialising in the curation of old plant varieties. I would
like
> to get in contact with this person to discuss the current situation of
the
> fruit trees.
>
> I would be most grateful if you could send a copy of that message again.
> And I would be very interested in your thoughts on the idea of an edible
> botanic garden, and any further contacts you could suggest for us.
>
> Kindest regards and thanks,
> Helen Coleman