Graeme and Allan, et al., Yeah, I didn't mean massive in the context of big and watery like the chenm stuff. This was solid, through and through - a vibrant strength. And the poo was from dairy girl cows.
Chris --- Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>mix, but the best thing overall every year was > just > >>dairy manure. The stalks and ears of the corn > were > >>just massive - like the cows neck. > > > >The size thing always worries me. We all get taken > in by this, even > >the Koliskos were prone to assessing quality in > terms of size. > >It is an important indicator only up to a point. > "adequate" seems a > >more appropriate term than "massive" when it comes > to nourishing > >food. > >Sometimes bigger is worse, rather than better. > >$0.02. > > I know what you mean, Graeme, in regards to > conventional food. I have > to admit, though, that neither my tongue nor my eye > have found > problems with the massive, heavy produce that has > come from the > Kimberton CSA or from Jeff Poppen's farm. Both farms > are long time > biodynamic and both use large amount of cow-based BD > compost. Jeff, I > believe, also manures his fields. Kerry Sullivan (I > really have never > understood if his place is the Kimberton CSA or has > another name. In > this case, I'm assuming that the Kimberton CSA is > the one at Camphill > and not Kerry's) also grows vegetables, such as > Kale, that look > almost prehistoric in their mass. This produce is > not watery or > spongy. It's simply robust beyond imagination. > > Separate from this, I agree with your assertion that > in conventional > produce smaller may be better. It was macrotiobics > founder George > Osawa's contention that smaller produce was 'better > integrated,' and > therefore contained more innate "intelligence" than > large vegetables. > (this made it easy for him to assert that the small > Japanese bodies > of his era were superior to the larger Western > bodies. Of course, he > may have been correct since now that the Japanese > are taller they > also are subject to the same degenerate diseases as > the West) I would > bet that George would chose the big BD vegetables > through chi, though. > > Hugh's spinach at ACRES simply filled the mouth with > energy! > > -Allan > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
