[BCMA] [coabc_list] historic crop digitization

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just wanted to say congratulations. The work you have done and are 
continue to do is invaluable and I am so pleased that you have some 
support to digitize it,  Making it available on the Seeds of 
Diversity website is truly a gift.

HP


At 9:37 PM -0700 10/17/09, Sharon Rempel wrote:
>Hello:
>The Garden Institute of B.C. has a small grant from IDRC to digitize 
>historic crop information and put it up on a website that will link 
>the information to weather and soil map for the time and place (see 
><http://www.tgibc.org>www.tgibc.org and the GIS project for a 
>summary of the project). We plan to post the information on the 
><http://www.seeds.ca>www.seeds.ca website, Canada's heritage seed 
>program site.  This will give us useful information for local food 
>growers, food security projects and help on farm research find 
>varieties that might work in the bioregion.
>
>If you have some agriculture or horticulture records or reports you 
>would like to digitize with this grant please contact me.
>
>
>Sharon L. Rempel
>email: <mailto:slrempel at shaw.ca>slrempel at shaw.ca
><http://www.grassrootsolutions.com>www.grassrootsolutions.com
>
>tel: (250) 585-6776
>mailing address: #38, 3200 Island Highway
>Nanaimo, B.C.  V9T 6N4
>
><http://www.tgibc.org>www.tgibc.org
>President of The Garden Institute of B.C.


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