Dear SIGNA members,
I'm happy to announce that SIGNA has finally found someone to chair the seed exchange. He is Walter Pickett, and I want to welcome him on board. Here is a little bit about him, in his own words:
First a few lines about myself.
I'm 64, generally in good health.
2 years grad school at Kansas State University in genetics.
3 years head of vegetable research in the Republique du Niger, Africa.
4 years research on breeding perennial grain crops at the Land Institute, Salina, Kansas.
Nearly 60 years experience gardening.
One of he founding members of the Central Prairie Seed Exchange, an organization for preserving fruit and vegetable varieties from Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklaholma.
I've grown eupogon iris since a teenager. Became interested in arils at about the same time. I have become interested in the non-bearded iris just few years go. I have imported adenium seeds, and had no trouble navigating the rules and forms.
This is Ken again. So you can see, Walter is well qualified to take this on for us. Since this is happening so late in our yearly cycle, there may still be some delays and inefficiency in this year's exchange, but there definitely WILL be one. We'll send out more information as things progress. Meanwhile, welcome to Walter!
Ken Walkup
Sent from my ENIAC mainframe
