Canada - Seed World

Canada - Seed World


Jonathan Nyborg Thinks You Should Hear the Words of Robert Frost

July 10, 2020

At the July 7 virtual meeting of the Canadian Seed Growers’ Association, outgoing president Jonathan Nyborg alluded to the Robert Frost poem “The Road Not Taken”: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. We chat with Nyborg about the two paths in front of CSGA members right now: whether or not to merge with our other seed associations to form Seeds Canada.