I agree with you wholeheartedly. At least when you don't say how you are going to do something at least you get a reply. Write a post describing how to do something such as peppering, or Radionic and the silence is deafening.
The comment re research not being funded by BD organizations is just as valid in Australia as anywhere else. Landcare groups are interested and seem the best avenue to get BD out into the real world.
I see that the major problem in research is to be able to keep your independence. To be beholden to any organization as to what you are allowed to think, believe or do is really no different to a political system. You must follow the party line. It is really no different in BD organizations. It is their job to hold the status quo, it is the job of the person who believes that there is a different way, to promote their beliefs or systems.
BD is another tool, amongst many tools which a farmer can use, it is not a complete system. In reality much material that is claimed to be BD is only baggage that others have added to the original method as proposed by RS. Many of the ideas promoted by RS, such as the work of the Kolisko's into potentising is not accepted by mainstream BD. The idea of using a compost tea made from the herbage of the fields where the preps are to be sprayed out as the base liquid for the BD500 spray mix is never discussed. Why? It is not because of lack of research funds, it is because the human mind has become so locked in to survival mode that there is no room for anyone to be adventurous. The best research is done when the researchers have their own funds in the project, and as you say that at times can be a rather scary place because often you don't know where your next dollar is coming from.
It was quite obvious, long ago that the weak link in the system of production of the BD preps would be that there would not be sufficient sheaves to meet any increased demand, also discussions with many mainstream farmers indicate that BD is seen as some archaic system that was not relevant to today's pressure cooker factory farming systems.
Just because you are a BD farmer, or an anthropop does not mean that your belief systems will carry you through. The system needs to work and be flexible enough to adapt to changing needs. To adapt you need time, therefore you need to be able to see well in advance where it is needed to change, and what systems need to be in place to be able to adapt.
Organizations, whether government or even BD, live to protect their power to make rules. Rules are not conducive to good research, neither is seeking to obtain grants. There is more money for research if you are fulfilling a perceived need, not because of a need to support a philosophical anachronism.
Regards
James Hedley
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> sounds like the spirit of Greg Willis lives on.....sstorch
Steve This raises a few very interesting questions. Is it OK for BD farmers to be entrepeneurial, yet not its researchers. And why would this be???? Given there is no financial support for BD research from either official or NGO bodies or the BD farming community, then the only way it can be funded is thru good old capitialistic means. Develop a product and sell it to fund further research. If you can! Why should we, who have dedicated our lives to extending BD method and understandings be seen as 2nd class citizens because we wish to a) survive & b) continue on with our development of your art. Surely the health of a community is imaged in how it treats ALL its parts. Glen
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