Dear Greg, Thank you for such an eloquent statement of the issues and tools on the table to work with. I have exactly the same thinking as you on these matters. I look forward to talking with you sometime in the future.
Sincerely, Chris Shade --- Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please post to BDNOW. > > Dear Chris and Allan, > > For a moment, let's go back to basics and pick it up > again. Rudy > brought ways and means of reintroducing spiritual > energy into plants > that people and animals eat. The ways and means > that he advised have > been cobbled together into an imaginary "system" > some people call > "biodynamics" or "biodynamic farming". It is not an > integrated system > that has had the benefit of the kind of research, > development and > testing that conventional agriculture has had. The > premises of Steiner > Agriculture are arcane and suspect in the eyes of > conventional farmers > and researchers. Most of them couldn't understand > these metaphysical > principles and laws underpinning Rudy's ideas (what > has come to be known > as "biodynamic" agriculture) on their best days. > "Biodynamics" is > still, in fact, a backwater method of agriculture > practiced by a few > dedicated individuals. > > The world isn't going to change overnight. > Hydroponics farming is a > fact of life. It's not going away. Conventional > farming, aquaculture, > greenhouse produce, poisons, pesticides - they're > all here to stay. Be > pragmatic. > > > To say that hydroponics is not adaptable to the > ideas of Steiner is > foolish. Don't go there, Allan. There is no > "there" there. Unless > you're insane, of course, which I don't believe you > are. > > As to the question of bringing in the Four Elements > of Creation - Earth, > Air, Water and Fire - that's a piece of cake. > > What must be done, as Chris says, is to bring more > of the natural world > to hydroponic farming so that plants, and the > consumers of the plants, > benefit from the increased nutrition and balance > that these plants will > exhibit if they are grown in a more "natural" > environment === message truncated === __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/
