Hi! Liz and the team, I am part of a group of consultants in several parts of Oz and overseas, who are sharing within the group and each trying to market our collective knowledge, which can be a real problem as we are on the cutting edge and unfortunately it is human nature to use that which has already failed.
Some of the work has been published, but the more interesting stuff is still under wraps. Some of our trials are quite spectacular. It all falls into the general area of energy based agriculture/ aquaculture, rather than chemical based. It is interesting to see the different explanations available for the same processes when viewed from an energetic, rather than a chemical point of view. Thus we look at soil balance in terms of energy and identify antennae and resonators...... A personal discovery has been that it would seem that at least some soil improvers act as energy resonators - i.e. takes an incoming energy and retransmits it at a particular frequency or at a number of frequencies. I believe this is how Paramagnetic Rock Dust works. (Remember your childhood crystal set!!) To date I have found a wide range of frequencies, from different rock, but the rocks that are renowned have frequencies that fall within the known "life frequencies", while those of doubtful use are outside this area. I have also found a couple of the most effective also have activity in an unexpected area, about which I have been able to get no information that explains it. A side issue is my discovery that at least some "killer road" on which unexplained often single vehicle accidents occur, have materials which resonate in the anaesthesia areas. Thus it may be that we are killing many people due to the use of inappropriate road building materials. It would be interesting to see if one could build Radionic Devises to counter this effect. Our current problem, if anyone can help is to find a way to make pellets containing a single tree seed and a number of life enhancing additives. We know what we want to include and that will be reasonably constant, but the seed vary greatly. From River Red Gum at six or seven thousand seeds to the ounce to quandong and sandalwood at one or two seeds to the ounce. Many have wings that need to be included and some like many of the native grasses are long and have hairs and hooks that tangle... Anyone with ideas on how we can build a machine that will handle a wide range of seeds with little resetting? Within the group we are planting between one and a half and two million trees a year, by direct seeding. If we can develop and pelletizer that will do the job we have in mind, and redesign our seeder, we can maybe get a hundred million trees with the same amount of seed. (Four to seven Tonnes). As well as personal survival (nice to eat now and again), we are very interested in developing the best possible system to do really large scale revegetation. We note a number of deserts that could well be revegetated, if there was a will and the technology. My research ranges from "flower pot trials" in the nursery, which allows many possibilities to be reduced to a number, before field work, to ten hectares of my my own land last year, as well as my techniques being used on many other sites. I would note that leaf litter, when collected from under gum trees and placed in another area, do not have the ability to stop seeds germinating. It may be that the inhibiting factor actually comes from the roots! I use leaf litter for landscape mulching around the farm and it has to be quite think to hold pasture grasses. Saw mill waste, preferably hard wood, is really good for mulching paths on the garden. Let it compost for two or three years and then add to the beds and replace. Gum saw dust will provide the much needed phosphorous, missing in most Oz soils. > Gil, does the fire kill off the fungi & bacteria or does encystment occur? In hot fires, just about everything is killed, if not fire proof. like the the lignatubers of the Mallees. In the "Tulka" fire of two and a half years ago, the loamy soil was reduced to dry sand, even the soil carbon burnt out. The Mallees shot from the lignatubers and at the first rain the weed Bridal Creeper shot from it's tuber. Soon followed by the acacias and other hard seeded trees. It will take decades for She Oaks to again spread through the area. I would think that most terrestrial fungus would be deep enough to survive. The surface algae, so important in holding the surface and preventing weed invasion in low rainfall areas, seems to take a long time to re-establish and this may be why weeds spread after a fire. Where are you Liz? How much rain all up? We had twenty Mil on Tuesday. Gil
