----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 10:57 PM Subject: Re: Taking another step.
> At the Mid-Atlantic BD conference you will receive exposure to > leading farming ideas that lie just outside of the ring of > biodynamics, such a Elaine Ingham on the Soil Foodweb and Jerry > Brunetti on Albrecht and Reams approaches to soil health. Lots of > other great speakers, also. http://www.gardeningforthefuture.com Hi Allan I went to an Elaine Ingham Soil Food Web seminar on the weekend. wow 7 hours of fantastic information. it was so interesting that I did not have time to nod of in the afternoon session. What I liked about it , is that it is so simple and easy to use , and is technologically competetive in this tecno driven world and backed with sound scientific reasoning. To me it is a very valuable tool that can be added to small scale intensive growing especially Flower growing and if you couple this with CEC balancing of the soils , and add to it BD wow what a foundation for some super crops this is about working smarter not harder. I am just in the process of setting up a 50 litre brewer and will be using worm compost and Steve Storch's barrel compost recipe and using the brix meter to monitor and changes. I had a brief discussion with Elaine and she was quite excited about the BD preps in private. she indicated that the difference preps indicated differences between fungal and bacterial activity. She indicated that the test results will be ready for your conference. Privately I felt that she was quite excited about this. Elaine is also very interested in learning more about BD and maybe looking at better ways to describe BD to farmers. For example she is trying to work out how to explain the terms etheric and astral to red neck farmers. Allan maybe at this conference you, Glen and Hugh could quietly indoctrinate her in the BD philosophy she would be superb ambassador. Just I thought . Cheers Tony Robinson Land Down Under
