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From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2003 12:18 AM
Subject: Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The Power
OfMyth
> >Hi Merla
> > There are excellent in depth horn clay articles in the
BDNOW
> >archive - Greg Willis, Hugh Lovel, Glen Atkinson, If you start 2nd June
> >1999 and go through to mid 2000 you should have all the info you are
looking
> >for.
> >Cheers
> >Lloyd Charles
>
> Lloyd - A man asked me the other day if I had a recording of Elaine
> Ingham's presentation at Santa Cruz last year. I had to ask him why
> he would want that because, through experience, what Elaine has to
> say has changed a lot a lot in the past year.
> How would one feel
> comfortable with ANY of that old information if one knew that the
> science of compost tea was in flux and was that much of what was
> gospel last year is - - or maybe forbidden! - - by this year?
Allan
If what you say above is really the case (I dont think so), then we
are running a dangerous game taking any notice of what is said now! I dont
really think Elaine's BASIC message will change that much over time, maybe
fine tuning changes to brewing tactics, and maybe some greater acceptance of
energetics will creep in over time, better application of the technology if
you like, but the basic biology message behind Soilfoodweb is sound - thats
not going to change much?
>
> My favorite example of this sort of thing is the New Alchemy
> information. One can read ecstatic reports on the success of their
> composting greenhouses.
I bet if we dug deeper into this we would find basic flaws in the biology
and/or chemistry.
>
> For me, the same is true of the BD Now! archives. This is an active,
> evolving, experiential group. The body of information we have
> changing daily. Better, with an email, a person has access to many
> active practitioners where one can gather both facts and opinions.
Agreed, but I dont think that changes the value of basic information, such
as how to prepare horn clay or, the Greg willis post explaining how to use
bentonite clay as a soil application in the absence of prepared horn clay, -
maybe I just enjoy dredging through the archive to see what I can find!
> Incidentally, I don't know if this was sorted out, but it was my
> impression that SS was saying that Courtney was/is working with horn
> clay. I'd like to hear more about this from someone/anyone.
>
> -Allan
>
>
