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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 18, 2016 19:17:39 GMT -5
I'm writing to say thank you to the members of this forum. I appreciate the posts you make about how and what you are growing. I appreciate the clever plant breeding projects that you are doing. I appreciate that you are adapting new varieties to your climates. I love that you are domesticating wild species. I love that you are making grow reports, whether they are about heirlooms, or modern varieties, or wild-experiments. I love that you are swapping seeds. I love that you are learning how to do manual cross-pollinations.
I have considered this forum to be my home on the Internet ever since I first started reading it. Thank you for the collaboration and good company. Thank you for teaching me how to be a plant breeder, and a better plant breeder. Thanks for the inspiration, and for the propagules. I might not reply to posts very often, but I've read pretty much every word that has been posted to the forum since around 2009. Thank you!
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Post by philagardener on Sept 18, 2016 19:48:05 GMT -5
Our thanks to you too, Joseph Lofthouse , for your encouragement, steady hand on the tiller, wild-experiments and everything else. It is a great community, folks, and always my first stop to see what's coming up! Thanks to each and every one of you for sharing your gardens and ideas! |
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Post by rangardener on Sept 18, 2016 21:21:24 GMT -5
We were passing through Logan from Bear Lake last Friday and thought about coming to the farmers market to say Hi on Saturday. Too bad that we could not find a place to stay overnight in Logan and had to kept on going west toward Idaho.
On the long drive I had some fun discussions with my wife about planting ideas for the next year, and I could not stop thinking how reading this forum changed my thinking about plant breeding over years, and your posts have been prominent among many others that taught me so much. Thank you! Thank you all!
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Post by shoshannah on Sept 18, 2016 23:13:26 GMT -5
Thanks from me too. This forum is what I've been looking for, for just about forever. Gardening has become fun and exciting.
The best thing that I've gotten from the forum is liberation. Grex and landrace are like a revolution to me. I don't have to grow
a boatload of seed to be a plant breeder. I can choose and adapt what I want and need for my climate and family. Everyone's
projects appeals to my imagination and sense of adventure. Everyone's pictures are stunning, beautiful and inspirational and appeals
to my art side. We can make our veggies more tasty, nutritious, and beautiful. So much information right at my fingertips.
Thanks everyone!
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Post by nicollas on Sept 19, 2016 1:45:23 GMT -5
Damn i feared that was a good-bye message !
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Post by templeton on Sept 19, 2016 7:51:52 GMT -5
Thank YOU, Joseph. You keep me thinking, and aspiring.
T
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Post by prairiegarden on Sept 19, 2016 10:05:27 GMT -5
What they said. This is a one of a kind of the very best sort, and you, Joseph, are an integral part of making it so. Thanks to you and to the many other talented, thoughtful, curious and creative people who share as you do, their adventures and information so freely.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Sept 19, 2016 13:46:52 GMT -5
Damn i feared that was a good-bye message ! I'll just say that I was assaulted last week. I'm fine physically, and especially emotionally. So I took the opportunity to think about what I value in life. I'm reaching out to loved ones to express my gratitude. |
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Post by richardw on Sept 19, 2016 14:29:13 GMT -5
Thats not good that you were assaulted Joseph Lofthouse , at least you sound like you are ok. I'm also very thankful that i found this forum, its thanks to not only you Joseph but to many others that ive learnt so much more about growing outside of that standard mainstream mind set, this is a forum group of lateral thinking growers of which i feel we are a minority amoung the gardening community, dont know about everyone else but at times i'm viewed as some kind of anti christ when the words "inbreed heirlooms" or "mix breeding heirlooms together" are mentioned. |
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Post by shoshannah on Sept 19, 2016 17:12:12 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Sept 19, 2016 20:15:53 GMT -5
Sorry about that crappy happening; my on-line experience would be immeasurably impoverished without your input and that of so many here, past, present, and future, Inshallah!
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Post by ferdzy on Sept 20, 2016 14:17:56 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about you being assaulted, Joseph Lofthouse Lofthouse. Those moments when we get a glimpse down the other leg of the trousers of time are... interesting. And let me chime in with everyone who has said how much they value this forum. The work you do is amazing, and my gardening life is much more expansive, confident, and exciting as a direct result of my being able to be here, with you and everyone else who contributes their time, their knowledge, and their seeds. |
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Post by RpR on Sept 27, 2016 16:35:16 GMT -5
Joseph, your posts showed me just how much more there is to gardening than ever expected, especially from some one who is not a bucks-up college or seed company person.
My gardens have been left to them selves far too much for the past three years but reading your posts and those you inspired were a main reason I put anythig in especially when some years what came out of my garden defyed logic, either good or bad.
Too many people have stopped posting here, often going to other internet comm. forms but the fact you, and some others that keep on plugging are write what you write are all I need to put stuff in the garden even when I know it will not get the attention it really needs and deserves.
So as the old hippy saying goes -- Keep on Truckin!
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Post by imgrimmer on Oct 3, 2016 2:30:33 GMT -5
Joseph Lofthouse lofthouse when I go to Homegrown Goodness your post are always the first I am looking for. Thank you for your inspiring work!
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