Paul DeCampo writes:
I am looking for a source of paramagnetic rock dust here in Otario,
Canada. Any ideas?
Also, can anyone recommend any books, web sites or other sources of
information which address how biodynamics relates [relate?] to the
growing of grapes, particularly for wine production ?
Did you see my recent posts on organic + biodynamic
viticulture? They summarize what you're looking for.
The following links to BD-Now and Sanet web archives
contain pages and pages of web- and print-based resources.
Wine from Sky to Earth, biodynamic viticulture
14 September 2002
http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2002/bdnow/msg04338.html
Organic Biodynamic Viticulture resources, Part I
06 September 2002
http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2002/bdnow/msg04168.html
This is the big list... look through this and savor the
depth of biodynamic viticulture
Re: BD Viticulture Quotes wanted | Organic vineyarding
05 September 2002
http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2002/bdnow/msg04160.html
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 16:14:59 -0500
To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group
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Subject: Re: USDA-OIG request for information | Organic Grapes
Viticulture
http://lists.ifas.ufl.edu/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0207L=sanet-mgF=S=P=22691
Now I will add the following notes. From my vantage point,
the following 6-7 items compose the core literature of organic
+ biodynamic viticulture.
The Core Literature of Organic + Biodynamic Viticulture,
September 2002 snap shot:
1.
6th Int'l Congress on Organic Viticulture IFOAM
http://www.soel.de/inhalte/publikationen/s_77.pdf
2.
NY Organic Grape and Wine Production Symposium
http://www.nysaes.cornell.edu/hort/faculty/pool/organicvitwkshp/tabofcontents.html
3. Wine from Sky to Earth book
http://csf.colorado.edu/archive/2002/bdnow/msg04338.html
4.
IPM Field Handbook for Winegrowing in Napa County
http://www.nswg.org/ipmmanual.htm
5.
Vineyards in the Watershed: Sustainable Winegrowing
in Napa County
http://www.nswg.org/book2002.htm
6. Two sites below, focusing on field trails, disease control,
biorational products, and plant extracts:
a.
English papers on Fruit-Viticulture at Geman agriculture website:
Staatliche Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt für Wein- und Obstbau Weinsberg
http://www.landwirtschaft-mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/la/lvwo/Veroeff/publications.htm
b.
10th International Conference on Cultivation Technique and
Phytopathological Problems in Organic Fruit-Growing and Viticulture
February 4th -7th, 2002 at Weinsberg/Germany
http://www.landwirtschaft-mlr.baden-wuerttemberg.de/la/lvwo/ecofruvit/start.htm
7.
7th International Congress on Organic Viticulture
and Wine | IFOAM 2002
http://www.cog.ca/ifoam2002/owinec.htm
The last item -- 7th International Congress on Organic Viticulture
and Wine | IFOAM 2002 -- has not been published yet, but you
can view the program and speakers.
For rock dust, my web article lists Cairn Tech as a source in
Ontario.
Rock Dusts in Agriculture: Insights on Remineralization and
Paramagnetism
http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/paramagnetic.html
Steve Goddard has demonstrated a home composting system
based on a tumber, grass clippings, and rock dusts. His
web article also lists Global Repair in Toronto as a source.
He says the compost looks real good. I like this method
as a backyard system that relies on fresh lawn clippings
only, combined with rock dusts. It matches the resources
of many home gardeners and it is based on an interesting
process known to organic agriculture.
Backyard Composting by Steve Goddard
http://www.london-grove.pa.us/compost.htm
Note: This web page will first roll over to an error page.
Try it a second time, or play with the web address in your
browser. It will load if you try again.
In the following web collection, I provide some background
ideas and resources on organo-mineral complexes and
solubilization processes that occur when rock minerals are
mixed with animal manures and composts.
The same thing happens in the soil all the time, for example
when green manures and fresh organic matter residues are
added to the soil a population explosion takes place among
micro-organisms; as they break down the organic matter they
release organic acids as a byproduct; these organic acids help
solubilize minerals that are normally tied up in parent rock
material and amended rock mineral fertilizers, thus making the
nutrients and minerals available for plant uptake, transport by
microbes within the rhizosphere, or to become associated with
the clay-humus complex.
That is why rock phosphate run through a compost pile has
bioavailable P equivalent to singer super phosphate. By mixing
rock dusts with compost piles, such as mineralized compost
first described by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, you promote this natural
process.
Clay-Humus: The Seat of Soil Fertility
A Treatise on the Vital Role of Clay-Humus Crumb Structure
and Organo-Mineral Complexes in Soils
