----- Original Message ----- From: James Hedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 11:04 AM Subject: Electronic homeopathy for plants. Was Re: late winter farm
> Dear Lloyd, > I agree with you that a commercial farm is not really the place for doing > chromas. How many BD farms or CSA's supply food with a certificate of > quality backed up by chromas. Hi James The biggest problem I see with this is trying to get a valid comparison - if the overlapping influence of the normal preps is a fact (and Allan agreed that it was), then how do we compare ? If we move far enough away to eliminate that effect then we introduce other variables - different soil types - past history - it makes the excercise pointless I think. I spoke to Cheryl today and they are able to do chromas on the barrel compost samples so I will send some in for that > it seems to me that the nebulous thing which Alan defines as quality > is best decided by the farmer themselves first, then by their peers and also > by the customer. I think I would put the customer ahead of the peers. > My guess is that if a farmer of any persuasion had to supply a certificate > of compliance with their produce very little of the food produced would get > to market. I believe that to simply use the preps and compost as defined by > RS will only lead to depletion of soil mineralisation. Thats not a popular statement to make in BD circles but I believe its right on the mark! We cant expect to 'bring in' from the cosmos, all the necessary minerals for a cropping program with decent yields either, at least not in the early stages of our development. If we started with soils with a high mineral content (such as yours) and pursued a program with a low nett export of minerals from the farm then maybe. This does not mean we have to use salt fertiliser but something has to come in to balance output. I had a very good afternoon with Tobias at Yanco today and we discussed a few of these things, he has done a really good job with the organic plots there, he's at a stage where weed control is not a major problem,and his production levels are quite good, he has picked 18 ton /ha of zuchinis off one block so far and they are still cropping like mad, pumpkins look good as do the soybeans, but he is still struggling with fairly low brix readings and it seems difficult to shift that, there is something still not quite right but they gave him the worst bit of soil on the whole farm to work with. > There is more to cropping than that. > In ancient soils as we have in large areas of Australia minerals are very > low to start with, so any chance you have to add to mineralisation or to > increase microbial growth will give a great return. > Bruce Copen from Copen Instruments developed a fertiliser which was prepared > radionically which he called "Cosmo". it is a mixture of homeopathic > Schussler tissue salts, radionically prepared BD preps, a substance called > Agrospon which feeds bacteria and other microbes plus a couple of other > remedies such as Lachesis ( a great anti viral ) and Lycopodium (to > strengthen the archetype of the plant). > I have been broadcasting this out during the drought as well as Copen's > Nutritional spray # 5. Each of these have been broadcast for 24 hours at > least once a fortnight since last spring when I realised that we were moving > into severe drought.. People who come to our place all comment on the speed > which the pasture and bushland has recovered, compared to surrounding farms. > If you would like a phial of each to try in your broadcasters I would be > pleased to send them to you. Yes please! I sure would like to try these - I have a couple of interesting things that you might like to try in return. > The use of electronic homeopathy for plants has a great future in overcoming > mineral deficiency problems in plants and this combination of mixtures seems > to be a valuable tool to have in your arsenal. > have had eleven and a half inches of rain wow! its a crazy country we live in - we had very close to five and could stand another inch right now. We have 700 acres cultivated and its a bit too dry on top to continue will probably do another 500 on the next rain if the season goes with us as our sheep numbers are very low - only have 300 lambs left and will be totally destocked when they are sold in the winter. Not sowing oats as we have adequate feed for the few sheep we have. Plan is to try to get a reasonable area of pasture sown down this year (lucerne) so we can back off the cropping and get a little better balance with livestock in the future. I want to try and let this farm grow some spare grass this year as we just dont have enough soil cover. Probably start sowing in mid april if we get a little rain then. Tobias and I thinking about going to Young at the end of this month to hear Gary Zimmer and Jerry Brunetti (more yanks) I've been brewing some ingham style compost tea, with a few variations and it seems to be working OK - still getting the bugs out of my application system - just about got that sorted - I've been running the brewer like a big ginger beer plant , taking out half the brew each morning and night and refilling and feeding, immediately , I can get it back up OK in the 8 hours or so and again for the morning, seems to be working OK. So I can get two lots of 800 litres out of my tank each day. It took me a little while to figure out how to do this stuff but it was dead simple in the end . Once I unsubscribed from the compost tea list things got a lot easier. Elaine could have told us how to do this in two sentences, but they all made it sound sooooo complicated and expensive. Blew the recirculating pump this morning but got a brand new one under warranty (two year warranty was better than I expected) I've been tapping away here for a while - better go Cheers for now Lloyd Charles
