There was a preliminary meeting for the Agriculture Section members followed by a Friday, Saturday, Sun. morn meeting for all prep makers. The letter I received mentioned at the bottom to pass the word along to any prep makers who might have gotten left off of the list.So this was not a private meeting.
People came from Delaware, Vermont, California, Oregon, Arizona, Minnesota, Ohio, NY, Virginia, Kentucky, West Virginia, Penn, Canada, Michigan, North Dakota...maybe others. The diversity of growers and experience levels was broad. Hartmut Von Jeetze and Harvey Lisle being the elders of the group, down to a few people in their twenties. Each of the 40 or so people had a chance to go around and explain their relationship to the preparations work. Lets see...the highlights for me were....the regional Oregon initiative sold 1000 units of preps last year. The well coordinated effort has developed over twenty years! There are quality testing occasions where everyone quietly walks around pinching, smelling and comparing the different preps in bowls. Trying to refrain from an "Ah...Ohh". The group makes an effort to keep a positive, meditative frame of mind while actually preparing the preparations. All of the compost in the Park Presidio is now BD. All of the planting medium/ potting soil used in the landscaping projects are also biodynamic. The National Park service is now working with the preparations in the Muir Woods. Harvey Lisle is now doing all quality testing through dowsing. No more chromos for him. Dr. Elaine Ingham is now testing samples of BDNOW's own Steve Storch, and preliminary findings are HOT. Steve sprays 1000 acres a year. Hugh Williams gave a presentation on self sufficiency in prep making, with in the context of acheiving the ideal of a self contained farm individuality.How many cow horn and hooves would be needed, etc... Hugh Courtney spoke about JPI continuing to be a chalice for the preparations work. And the mindfulness of this as a holy, spiritual practice to heal the Earth. Dewayne Morgan spoke about being alone and remote in Biodynamics, up in Minnesota, the heart land, where he farms 450 acres, and another BD grower Dan Thomas farms 1200(?) acres alone. So regionalization isn't as realistic is his situation. DeDe Burkham spoke of purifying the horn on her alter, before burying it, to help harmonize the way the animal was slaughtered, and possibly raised. She also spoke about begining to work with the Buffalo. Rudolf Steiner said that the Buffalo is suffering in the etheric realm because of the way we mass slaughtered them. He said Americans have a responsibility to redeem the buffalo, and DeDe felt the possibility of working with the preps via the buffalo would be a step towards this. Interesting, that the strongest regional efforts, Oregon and North East, are also JPI's two largest consumer bases. The well established BD farming areas, New York and Penn. planned to strengthen their regional efforts. Breakout sessions were had around the topics of quality, questions such as how long do we use horns, how do we choose the right manure for horns, how fine do we grind the silica, peritinum(sp?) or mesentary? All the usual questions. There was not much talk of Pfeiffer, or any new preps. This was such a short meeting... Those are some bits and pieces of what I can remember.I didn't take notes, so this is all off the top of my head, hope I got my facts straight! Christy ----- Original Message ----- From: Michael Roboz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 1:26 PM Subject: Re: future of the bd remedies > The Copake Meeting was for Agric. Section Members, not even just members of > the Anthr. Soc. or BD Soc. Invite was by leter, Michael
