Dear Chris, You are most welcome to all the warm and fussy's you want. I have no argument with that.
I live in an area where large scale agriculture is only a hundred years old. 2005 will mark the first direct export of wheat from my area. (Eyre Peninsula, South Australia). We have very old. very thin and heavily depleted soils. First we used Guano, then trace elements, then Super phosphate, then nitrogen, then pesticides, then herbicides, then no-til...... We have destroyed our soil Biota, fritered our soil carbon, built hard pans and developed salinity like you would not believe. Our acid soils have slipped to between 4 and 4.5 pH and the alkaline soil range from 8.5 to 9.8 pH, as a result of our agricultural practises. I have seen soil analysis with soil carbon down to 0.01%. Over clearing has resulted in climate change, further excepting the conditions. Our Ag Extension Officers tell us that in much less than another hundred years, we will reduce our area to a grazing area that will be too poor to still carry sheep and goats will be the only envisioned income generating use for the land. I assure you there are many good folk among the farmers who are fast going broke as they follow the dictates of the multinationals, and I am sure they are praying to the best of their ability. I live in a world that is much more damaged than that of RS. While I think that what he was teaching was easily applied in those days of small fields, manual labour and horses, the popularization of the tractor was still years away and started in the UK, US, NZ and Os and not getting to his part of the world until after WW2, in any quantity. We have manpower ratios of one man working two to five thousand acres, in cropping land and one man working a hundred square miles in some grazing country. I grew up in a very different part of Australia, where condition were much more like those of RS's time and place. Good soil, adequate rain, farm labour, horses and very limited chemical use. To day those small farms that supported one or more families are now the retreat from the nearby city for those who want to commute and live within the few remaining vineyards and orchards.... In my hostile environment, dramatic changes must happen, if total agricultural wipe out is not to happen. While I am having promising successes using the BD Preps, both conventionally prepared and those made Radionicly. But I believe that is necessary to move beyond these and develop Preps specific to our local needs. This may take the form of finding our local equivalents and building Preps from these, or it may be by some other method and I invite folk in Oz and NZ who are interested, to join me in doing this. We know for example that our Drooping She Oak, is a close match for Horse Tail. But we do not have large horned animals that readily replaces the cow for a BD500 replacement. So I think it needs some one who communicates with the Devas to ask them, so we can make and trail that which they suggest. I think also that we will need to take into account our widely different soils and conditions. Gil Rural Center for Responsible Living wrote: > It was written, > > > So why not use Radionic Devices and do it from the comfort of the office? > > This is what worries (for lack of a better way of putting it) the more > "archaic folk". > Why not put your love for your kids in a radionic device and do so from the > comfort of the office? > > It seems to me that the major difference between BD and other Ag is > conscious spirituality. > Let's stop bashing the "traditionalists" for how ignorant they/I am (though > I don't consider myself either) > and understand that this whole form of ag is like a living prayer. The only > problem that I see arising > from this whole debate is the bickering amongst brothers and sisters and the > possibility to cookie cutter > Biodynamics with the type of attitude depicted above. > > I truly do not mean to bash anyone. It is just a shame to see such a > wonderful concept turn into > such bickering, anger and the need to prove or put down. > > Just think on this for a moment. As we have simplified or production, what > has happened. > First we have not created more time for ourselves as was the intent but > less. > We have solved a handful of problems to create a mountain more. > And the quality of stuff now is crap. > When embarking on a new technology I believe that we have to understand that > this is the trend of > humanity. Keeping this these concepts in mind in our creative endeavors can > only help the outcome. > > In Love and Light, > Chris
