Born in 1958 in Brooklyn NY at Kings County Hospital, 4:30 am. Lived off Church avenue then moved to Sheepshead Bay. The only thing I ever knew about farms was that old MacDonald had one, eieio. I remember some old Italian gardeners talking about how there were all farms where my house and friends houses were in Brooklyn. That did not mean much to me then. I moved to Sea Gate at the very western tip of Long Island, Coney Island was adjacent. It looked out over the lower NY harbor. On this water way we swam, fished and learned about scuba diving. This was the old stomping ground of Woody Guthrie, the American folk song writer. His words and music was agreat influence on me and my attitude toward the negligent behaviour of man. I was a great fan of the undersea explorer, Jacques Cousteau. I went to John Dewey High School and started to study Marine Biology there. We did many things including preventing developers from buiulding on some of the last remaining swamps in Brooklyn. I went on to study Marine Science at Southampton College and attained a BS in Marine Science, Biology. I commercial fished for the years of high school and college and learned that fisherman do not want to listen to any advice outside of a guarantee loan officer. By the time graduation rolled around I knew there was something terribly wrong with our scientific paradigm and I worked in landscaping, tree surgery, had a window cleaning business, and a real estate license I never used. I married a farmer's daughter in 1986 and began to realize the shortcomings of our agricultural methods, food distribution, and the general maltreatment of farmers by the business sector. I came to biodynamics in 1987-88 when I saw High Williams and Larry Halsey buryung cow horns in wat was to be our cow pasture. I was mixing compost piles and went to see what they were doing. It did not strike me as strange but instead peaked my curiosty. The neatness of the whole in the beautiful soil [that had been treated with Pfieffer in the 70's], the wonderful arrangement of the horns in the earth and the solemn attitude of the workers. I asked some questions, filed the answers, and went back to making compost. That Winter I started to ttend the BD conferences in Kimberton, PA. I heard Hugh Courtney speak, Will Brinton, met Hugh Lovel, and many other wonderful folks and farmers. It was Courtney that most inspired me to work directly with the preparations and to stick with it and persevere. I had to learn about soils, cropping, planting, soil preparation and all of the intracacies of farming. It was great because my wife's family is twelfth generation on the land where we live and farm. There is incredible energy and knowledge here. After trying to stir and spray 100 acres by hand and backpack sprayer I built a stirring machine with the finest hydraulic components. I have built eight prototypes and now have what I consider to be state of the art. I would only like to develope a more refined barrel. I have customized a sprayer and have a golf bag array of spray nozzles and can get from 2-15 gallons per acre applications without fuss. The machine stirs enough water for 25 acres, the double barrel enough for fifty. I have been combining the work of Steiner, Pfieffer, and Schauberger with my own ideas and have developed five or more new earth healing remedies thus far. I plan on continuing this work and somehow breaking in to the mainstream agricultural, horticultural, and municipal composting markets...that's all fffloks...sstorch
