Re: gardenwriters Digest, Vol 8, Issue 24

**"Keith Muraoka" g*@jps.net**

We have voles in California! I was referring to the western pocket gopher.
>From what I gather from everyone's input is that they do not hibernate in
the mild winters of most of California. This means that I can attempt to
control them now rather than wait until the spring! Thank you.
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>    1. Post-Symposium Networking (Sheri Ann Richerson)
>    2. News of possible interest (Jeff Ball)
>    3. Re: Do gophers hibernate? (Nan Sterman)
>    4. Re: Do gophers hibernate? (Margaret Lauterbach)
>    5. Re: A Post Of Value And Encouragement - I Hope!
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> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 20:35:26 -0500
> From: "Sheri Ann Richerson" <voulezvous@fwi.com>
> Subject: [GWL] Post-Symposium Networking
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> It has been almost a month since the GWA Symposium in Chicago. While the
> Symposium was an action packed adventure full of networking
> opportunities it seems to me that there is no reason that it should end
> there.
>
> Doreen is right when this list started it was full of tips and
> information. No one in Chicago said to me that they would not share tips
> or ideas with me for fear of them being stolen.
>
> I belong to several other professional lists including an investigative
> reporting list. Information is freely shared there. Most of us are in
> different parts of the country. Even if the article is on the same
> subject it is unlikely that it will be identical.
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> One thing I have noticed since I returned is that I am receiving tons of
> mail containing great article ideas. I am not afraid to discuss those
> ideas with others. This is how we grow.
>
> I for one love working with editors that actually talk to me about ideas
> I have and help me to further develop them. Developing article ideas is
> my weak spot.
>
> Yes, I have been told after querying that someone on the staff could do
> that article. Hey, that's ok. Next time, maybe I will get to write one.
>
> Magazines, newspapers, publishers are all downsizing, but they still
> need a variety of writers. Being freelance means rolling with the flow
> to me. This month alone I am writing one article on greenhouse
> conservation, one on fire magic, one on cats and poisonous plants, one
> on Christmas herb meanings, plus numerous investigative articles for the
> newspaper I write for. In addition I am working on 5 books.
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> Sure someone could steal my ideas. Sure they could beat me to writing
> the articles. However, I do believe there is a sense of honor among
> writers.
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> Sheri
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:41:24 -0700
> From: "Jeff Ball" <jeffball@starband.net>
> Subject: [GWL] News of possible interest
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> Point well taken Doreen and Lon.  I had promised to keep everyone informed
> about new products and have instead gotten caught up in my own work and
had
> completely forgotten that promise.  That will change.
> In the meantime, I have on my desk a CD from the Penna. Horticulture
Society
> announcing the 2004 winners of the Hort Society's Gold Medal Plant Awards.
> There are three plants this year - Magnolia 'Daybreak'; Osmanthus
> heterophyllus 'Goshiki' (False-Holly) and sarcococca hookeriana var.
humilis
> (Sweetbox).  The CD has high res and low res photos on it.  I suspect any
> one interested can just contact the Pa. Hort Society and have one sent
out.
>
> Later,
>
> Jeff Ball
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> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:50:26 -0700
> From: Nan Sterman <nsterman@plantsoup.com>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Do gophers hibernate?
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> >by pocket gopher, do you mean a vole? mine do not hibernate - you
> >can see their tunnels under the snow - and last winter they ate most
> >of my all foliage garden.
> >
> >please excuse typing as i can only use two fingers of left hand at
present.
> >carol
> >
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> Carol, here in Calfiornia, we have pocket gophers but no voles.  And
> unfortunately, they don't hibernate...
>
> Nan
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 07:19:50 -0600
> From: Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] Do gophers hibernate?
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> Nan, are you sure there are no voles in California?  A common name for
them
> is Oregon meadow mice...Margaret L
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> >Carol, here in Calfiornia, we have pocket gophers but no voles.  And
> >unfortunately, they don't hibernate...
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> Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:47:20 -0600
> From: Margaret Lauterbach <melauter@earthlink.net>
> Subject: Re: [GWL] A Post Of Value And Encouragement - I Hope!
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> One of our local garden chains co-opted the PAR idea the same year GWA
> proposed it.  I encouraged people to cooperate with them via my column,
but
> never tried to push GWA.  I felt the end result was the most important
> anyway, and as long as food was going to the hungry, that was what
> mattered.  A woman at our local food bank mentioned that they had not had
> any greens donated, so I grew some Asian greens and donated a bunch of
> them.  Then the Food Bank wanted me to contribute recipes for using the
> greens.  You can grow a ton of some Asian greens in 30 days, but if hungry
> people are put off by mustardy flavor, it's wasted effort.  Margaret
Lauterbach
>
> >I'll add to this.  I am trying very hard to get stories from PAR
> >participants about their experiences.  By that I mean things like
grateful
> >reactions from recipients, unusual, touching, funny, thought provoking,
or
> >any other adjective that applies, stories.  PAR is about to reach it's
> >tenth anniversary and from just a few stories I heard at the GWA
> >symposium, there MUST be more good stories out there.  I want desperately
> >to collect such stories and get them into major print to give the PAR
> >program a further boost.  I am trying to work out something so that
> >writers will get something for what they contribute, but I hope you will
> >send stories even without absolutely counting on remuneration just so the
> >PAR program can continue to grow.
> >    The late Elwyn Meader, a wonderful plant breeder at the University of
> > New Hampshire, continued to breed and give away new varieties after he
> > retired.  Some of them could have brought him a tidy sum, but he said he
> > gave them away as "his payment for his space on the planet."   That's
the
> > kind of attitude I hope we can generate with PAR - selfless giving.
> >    PLEASE help with this.
> >-Lon Rombough
> >
>
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