Hi Patty, I was too much of a neophyte too when I first came on BD Now. What I did was save all the emails to categories on disks and when I learned what they were talking about, I reread my disks and understood a lot more.
I'm doing this now with Compost Teas list/serve. Many of the people are professional. They design compost tea makers or they have a business with golf courses and large acreages. The compost tea makers are huge and expensive and mechanical designers really need to share technical data. I wanted to share my little knowledge of making compost tea in our "Why Organic?" fairbooth this coming week and was not succeeding in borrowing a small professional teamaker because of logistics. Finally after my umpteenth email, the Webmaster, Jeff, sent me a link for beginners that told how to rig a simple aerator on a 5 gallon bucket. I could do this! The terra cotta pots and wet peat moss are for storing little tiny ziplocks of Bio-Dynamic preparations. It is most important to keep the organisms in the prep alive. I have a big pot with moss in it, but SStorch's message just informed me for the first time that I should have wet the moss. I've probably killed everything because it's really arid here in August even in my root cellar. Just hang in and enjoy all these people from all over the world. Best, Merla Patti Berg wrote: > I have just graduated from being a back yard gardener on my little one > > acre plot of land to something way over my head. I am in the process > of > purchasing 11.5 acres of land in Kentucky (currently growing alfalfa) > and feel overwhelmed for the moment as to where to start in turning > this > land into a sustainable farm. For the last five years I've toyed with > > the idea of having an organic farm and now that I've come this far > I'm > not quite sure where to start to achieve a sustainable farm this size > but I do so want to learn. Are there any organic farmers on this list > > from south central Kentucky? > > I've been reading books by Gene Logsdon and Eliot Coleman but most of > this stuff I've never tried. One thing I've learned from my garden is > > that plants don't always turn out the same way you read about them. > Although I've had a very successful garden here in Georgia I couldn't > tell you why. Has anyone ever written a book called Organic Farming > for > Dummies? > > I've been the posts on this list but you all are way over my head. I > learn best from hands on experience. Is there a first step to learn > about biodynamics? Could anyone tell me how you got started? > > Patti.....
