[AT] I got to meet Herb Metz today!

[Grant Brians]

On 4/2/2015 5:35 PM, Gene Dotson wrote:
>      Warren;
>
>      Glad you had such a good visit with Herb. My brother, Larry, and I also
> enjoyed the hospitality of Herb and his wife. Had the grand tour of the
> garden in full fruition. Have enjoyed his visits to Portland tractor camping
> group. Hope to see him, his Mini-G and his son again this year.
>
>                      Gene
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mogrits
> Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2015 7:40 PM
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> Subject: [AT] I got to meet Herb Metz today!
>
> Work and the possibility of purchasing a PTO 3 pt buzz saw brought me to
> Herb Metz's neck of the woods this afternoon. He knew I would likely visit
> but didn't know exactly when. Turned out he was closer to where I was
> working than I thought and on very short notice he graciously accepted my
> visit. I am so glad I stopped.
>
> Despite the threat of rain (which held off) he gave me a tour of his
> gardens and grounds, which really show a lot of time and TLC invested by
> Herb and family. It's a little early here yet for gardens to be showing so
> it appeared to me he was growing implements! He has a great assortment of
> implements and tells a great story about most every one that he came to
> have. By the time we finished the grounds tour I was beginning to think he
> had TOO many implements for the one AC D-14 tractor I'd seen. (I know, such
> a thing is not possible- to have too many).
>
> Then, he opened up his shop building and the ratio of implements to tractor
> balanced out immediately. I lost count but he has an amazing stash of AC
> G's. I am sure his miniature (appeared about half-sized) replica G is a
> show stopper when he brings it out. His shop also let me know that I am not
> alone in having a lot of "good stuff" stored away in my shop building. I am
> younger than Herb but we share the same goal. We are both going to
> "organize" our shops one day!
>
> Herb's Daylily garden is beautiful and I learned a lot about them in a very
> short time period, too.
>
> The buzz saw deal did not work out due to no fault of Herbs and when I
> mentioned that it was okay, because I only "wanted it and didn't really
> need it", he got a familiar twinkle in his eyes and said "when does that
> have anything to do with it?". I really got a chuckle out of that because
> it is so true.
>
> Anyway, Herb, thank you for your gracious, generous hospitality and thanks
> again to Spencer (and all the other members)  for keeping this group
> together for so long. If anyone is ever near Cumming, GA I recommend you
> treat yourself to a visit with Herb Metz. I try to learn one new thing
> every day and I learned about three weeks worth in my visit to the Metz
> place.
>
> Warren Smith
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I have not had the pleasure of traveling to Herb's neck of the woods and 
visiting him there, but he and his wife, Barbara visited me here at the 
farm and that was most enjoyable. I have been completely off the list 
for quite a while as I am too busy with both the seed business and the 
farm, as well as my wife's health problems. I do have an open invite for 
the list members to drop by but be aware that things get pretty crazy 
sometimes. I am now farming 350 acres of vegetables, orchard and hay 
(the hay is a winter crop on one property with vegetables the rest of 
the year.)
Back to work!
           Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer and Gourmet Seed 
International owner