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Re: Bay Area local garden newsgroup anyone?

At 02:21 PM 4/23/98 -0700, Cyndi Norman wrote:
>I also posted this to rec.gardens
>
>I've been interested for a while in the possibility of a group like
>ba.gardens where people in the San Fransisco Bay Area could discuss
>gardening issues.  It would supplement general groups like rec.gardens and
>more specilized ones like MeditPlants.  I've wanted many times to discuss
>things like local nurseries and garden events, our weather, varieties of
>veggies that work in this area, plant exchanges, etc.  These types of
>issues are of course welcome on the larger groups, but I think we in the
>Bay Area could benefit from a local discussion.   <snip>

Cyndi - 

I had always envisioned Medit-Plants fullfulling this for Bay Area
folks as well as other areas.  At time, there have been numerous
'regional' announcements and discussions of local events and resources.
It seemed to me that since Medit-Plants is such a low volume group
(compared to many), that this would not be offputting to those to
whom it wasn't relevant.  Perhaps I am wrong in this assumption.

What do Medit-Plants folks think?  It'd be nice to have our group
encompass type of discussion more routinely (I was not aware some
felt reticent to post such information).  I wonder if some of our
group might 'leave' to join this other forum, or if everyone might
join both anyway?  Local announcements are often useful to those
from other areas - it gives them insight to what happening locally.
Important when you visit an area and wonder what you might do while
you're there.  Also, a large number of Medit-Plants subscribers (at
this time) are local to the Bay Area.

If people don't feel comfortable posting to the group on this topic,
feel free to e-mail me (and perhaps Cyndi) directly.  Thanks.


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