Fw: Does Plants for a Future have 1000 friends?

[Guest guest]

Plants For A Future are a Vegan Organic project doing pioneering work in

researching and developing future food projects. Find out more about them by

clicking on the links provided and support them if you are able.

 

Cheers Graham

 

-

Richard Morris <webmaster

permaculture <permaculture

Tuesday, December 18, 2001 1:26 AM

Does Plants for a Future have 1000 friends?

 

 

> I guess most people on the list will know of Plants For A Future

> http://www.pfaf.org

> and our plant database

> http://www.ibiblio.org/pfaf/D_search.html

> we've done all the work on the database and our demonstration gardens

> on virtually no income with only a handful of people.

> Well now financial realities are beginning to bite and we are in a

> tricky spot and need all the help we can get.

>

> To be brutally honest pfaf is really in dire straights at the

> moment (one thinks of an appropriate swearword but it might

> offend the list). We are working on a rescue plan which

> has two main ingredients

> 1) grants to employ paid workers

> 2) Trying to recruit 1000 friends of pfaf

> We have acquired considerable debt in the purchase of our

> demonstration gardens in Devon, England. When we get it running

> the demo gardens could be really special, we have 80 acres of land

> and 1000's of useful plants to demonstrate. However, at the moment

> we are not getting sufficient income to meet repayments on the

> land. But if we could manage to recruit 1000 Friends then

> we could secure repayments on the land and the demonstration gardens

> would be saved from the accountants.

>

> A friends of PFAF subscription is only 10 UK pounds (or 25 pounds for

> supporting rs). By joining you could make a real difference

> to the project. I've included a membership form below.

> For those outside the UK you can join using a credit card via

> care4free

>

https://odc.care4free.net/Donations.html?benefitname=Plants%20for%20a%20Future & b\

ene

fitcode=C000662

>

> Best wishes for the solstice to all on the list

>

> Love and Light

>

> Richard Morris

>

>

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> Please renew my subscription I enclose:

> £25 supporting member __

> £10 wages __

> £6 unwaged __

> £150.00 (Life Membership) __

>

> Please send my newsletters via: - Email (easier for us) _ Snail mail _

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> I enclose a donation of £5 _ £10 _ £20 _ £50 _

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> Please send me a copy of the fund-raising pack _

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> Please send me details of work parties _

> Please send me details of courses and workshops _

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> Dates I may be able to attend: ......................................

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> Signed ......................... Date .....................

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> Please make cheques payable to Plants For A Future and send them to

> Plants For A Future,

> Blagdon Cross,

> Ashwater,

> Beaworthy,

> Devon,

> EX21 5DF

>

> Plants For A Future is a charitable company limited by guarantee,

> registered in England and Wales.

> Charity No. 1057719, Company No. 3204567,

> Reg. office 131 Spencer Place, Leeds, LS7 4DU, England.

> Trustees: Dr R. J. Morris, J. Darby, P. B. Gauntlet, S. H. Money

>

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> Plants for a Future: 7000 useful plants

> Web: http://www.pfaf.org/ or http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/

> Main Site: Blagdon Cross, Ashwater, Beaworthy, Devon, EX21 5DF, England

> Tel: (+44 845) 458 4719

> Email: webmaster (web related queries only)

> Why not join Friends of PFAF and help our project grow

> see http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/pfaf/friends.html for details.

> PFAF electronic mailing list pfaf

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[Guest guest]

Just wanted to add my support to Graham's efforts to get new people

joining as Friends of PFAF. What PFAF are trying to do is extremely

worthy - establishing a unique resource in their database of plants,

and putting theory into practice in their vegan-organic permaculture

plot. Don't forget, they're all vegan! You never know, their site

might just convince people that they can live sustainably and

comfortably without animal abuse - organic food has really taken off

in the last few years - PFAF could play a part in helping vegan-

orgnic food get established.

 

(if you don't know what permaculture is - have a look here:

http://pages.unisonfree.net/gburnett/Perma/).

 

--

Rob

 

vegan-network, " Graham Burnett " <grahamburnett@b...>

wrote:

> Plants For A Future are a Vegan Organic project doing pioneering

work in

> researching and developing future food projects. Find out more

about them by

> clicking on the links provided and support them if you are able.

>

> Cheers Graham