Re: GETTING ON BD NOW! and GETTING OFF BD NOW!

2002-12-10 Thread COYOTEHILLFARM
Hallo Nigerian Mafia I have seen stuff like this, for nearly 10 years, once I received a check for 3 US from a UK-bank, after deposit the check in the US the check cleared 14 days later the Bank canceled the transaction and took the moony back, luckily all ordered equipment where reedy to shi

Best Chance to Help Cuban Elementals

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Friends - Today I received a postcard from Carlos Alberta Hernandez M.S. of Villa Clara, Cuba. I am unable to assit him. Hopefully, someone on the list can step up to making this important publication available to this interested person in Cuba. -Allan He says: Dear Allan Balliett estimated (

RODALE (RE) EMBRACES "REGENERATIVE" AGRICULTURE Fwd: The Rodale Institute and the return of The New Farm®

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
From SANET Status: U Thread-Topic: The Rodale Institute and the return of The New Farm® Thread-Index: AcKgap5lFkiXveFgR6SFTitmr2Hilw== Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 11:47:28 -0500 Reply-To: Sustainable Agriculture Network Discussion Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Sustainable Agriculture Netwo

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Leigh Hauter
The 'box scheme' version of CSA, the one tht extension advocates, where crops from various farms are pulled together and delivered to the shareholders would prefer to hire a driver who wasn't associated with ANY of the farms, thereby completing the separation of farmer and consumer. Just like

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Also, Leigh, in your own CSA practice, you make a point of maximizing your contact with the shareholders, delivering food yourself and chatting the folks up rather than delegating that task. I had to use interns to deliver this season. I just couldn't leave the farm for that long twice a week.

FW: [globalnews] Plant-derived drugs contaminate food crops

2002-12-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: FW: [globalnews] Plant-derived drugs contaminate food crops Enviroonment News Network Plant-derived drugs contaminate food crops Tuesday, December 10, 2002 By Carey Gillam, Reuters KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In Kentucky, tobacco plants are turning into cancer-fighting drug factories. In Vir

Re: Hugo Erbe

2002-12-10 Thread tobias . koenig
Yes , I think they are available. I have got one. If you want to borrow it no problem Regards Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/12/2002 08:58 PM Please respond to bdnow                 To:        <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>         cc:                 Subject:        Re: Hug

descendents of African potentates?

2002-12-10 Thread flylo
Allan, I'm disappointed and feel very unloved if I don't get 1/2 a dz per day. They seem to come in waves though. And can get quite imaginative (those I even bother to open). One involved their high school athletic equipment. billion dollar basketballs, I dunno. Some people must be too greedy

Re: Hugo Erbe

2002-12-10 Thread garuda
Are German copies of this book available? Glen > > From: Glen Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2002/12/10 Tue PM 03:06:14 GMT+13:00 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Hugo Erbe > > Yes please count me in > Glen > > > Mark Moodie wrote: > > > > I would be interested to hear if there is

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Leigh Hauter
Chris has a real point about the mental health of the farmer being very important for the attitude of the shareholder. Back in the beginning when I couldn't (didn't) hire enough help or had poor help I would be stressed by the end of the season and you could see it in the shareholders. They w

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Keep the farmer healthy, with sufficient pay and help and I believe that no CSA that starts up will ever falter. In Love and Light, (Mr)Chris Chris - Thanks for your post. It brings up another question: how does a CSA farmer (you? people you know?) afford to contact potentially quality member

Re: GETTING ON BD NOW! and GETTING OFF BD NOW!

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
I get about 500 messages a day. Most of them from the descendents of African potentates. I'm really quick on the delete key, so, by all means, get that BD NOW! in the subject of your message!! Strangely, it appears, that some people, people apparently more blessed than myself, have taken unnec

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread The Korrows
One thing that we have missed in this discussion is the dropout of the farmers doing CSA's (burnout), which I think is a most important element of the "retention rates" of members. What seems to be the most important factor in my experience with our CSA is that the food is actually second to most

Re: Evolving meaning of CSA

2002-12-10 Thread Leigh Hauter
A problem JUST FOOD CSA helps to support family farms that are struggling to stay in business, while providing city people, particularly in low-income neighborhoods, with access to good, affordable produce. The low-income aspect of a csa subsciber is very very problematic. It is real hard to g

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Leigh Hauter
I have now been in the CSA business for over a decade in the DC area and have spent much of the time wondering what I should expect as a satisfactory renewal rate. and what made people renew or not. My observations (these are all pretty obvious, once said) production does matter. this is very

Evolving meaning of CSA

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Evolving Concept of CSA ROBYN VAN EN CENTER CSA is a relationship of mutual support and commitment between local farmers and community members who pay the farmer an annual membership fee to cover the production costs of the farm. In turn, members receive a weekly share of the harvest during the

FW:(was fad?) United Way CSA shares through Just Food

2002-12-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Allan, The United Way shares in Roxbury were a project realized through Just Food here in NYC. You can contact them at http://www.justfood.org/ They connect farmers & farms with people and help build further csa's through training & other programs. Click on the link for programs. Jane >Allan,

Re: CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
The biodynamic CSA I belong to, the Temple-Wilton (NH) Community Farm, has been in operation since 1985 and provides 100 families with vegetable and dairy products. We have 60 families on the waiting list and have only 1 or 2 openings a year, a retention rate of 98+ Commendable! Temple-Wilton is

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CSA Retention rates

2002-12-10 Thread Richard Kalin
The biodynamic CSA I belong to, the Temple-Wilton (NH) Community Farm, has been in operation since 1985 and provides 100 families with vegetable and dairy products. We have 60 families on the waiting list and have only 1 or 2 openings a year, a retention rate of 98+%. http://www.templewiltoncommun

Re: FW: fad?

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
I do not see where you are muckraking as I see no disagreement. Although I am not really sure what people are voting for these days, I do know that just in the short time I have been a member of a csa in this country, from 1989 until now, that csa farms and memberships have multiplied from a handfu

Re: FW: fad?

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Allan, I will get back to you after talking more with JP to see if he can write up some of these ideas he's also been working on for many years about expanded csa's & share them with the list. Also to get the practical info on how the United Way shares in Harlem came to be realized. Thanks, Jane.

FW: fad?

2002-12-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Hello Rose, I do not see where you are muckraking as I see no disagreement. Although I am not really sure what people are voting for these days, I do know that just in the short time I have been a member of a csa in this country, from 1989 until now, that csa farms and memberships have multiplied f

Re: GETTING ON BD NOW! and GETTING OFF BD NOW!

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Rose - et al - PLEASE, let's keep focused on the biodynamics and not allow ourselves to be drawn off topic by the quirks of the moderator. Anyone who cannot abide by this request, I will personally give the email address of to the YOUR KIND ASSISTANCE spammers and they will never want again fo

Re: From Mark Moody

2002-12-10 Thread Mark Moodie
>> >> OK - I'll let you know what happens when you Americans get out of bed and I >> get a reply to my fax. Just to explain that list proc found some of these words as triggers for the automatic software so Allan rescued it. Thanks Allan, I was just about to rephrase this and repost. --

Re: GETTING ON BD NOW! and GETTING OFF BD NOW!

2002-12-10 Thread Fred & Rose Lieberman
Allan, you mentioned: "Most of them from the descendents of African potentates." What does that mean? You must be lucky. I usually just get porn from China. But how do you know they are descendents of African potentates? Rose

GETTING ON BD NOW! and GETTING OFF BD NOW!

2002-12-10 Thread Allan Balliett
Envirolink has it's quirks. One of those quirks is that it is so anti-spam that it often rejects subscribers from posting to this list. Sometimes, it's so cautious that is outright unsubscribes people, without fanfare. If you ever took a look at the spam files that BD Now! generates, my friend

Fwd: OFF RE: Droughts and Rainmaking

2002-12-10 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 12/3/02 11:25:08 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Steve, I have been trying to get back on the list with no luck or I would have sent this to the list. There is more on this subject in the book "The Awesome Life Force" by Joseph Cater. Baron Carl Von Reichenbach was ab

Fwd: From Mark Moody

2002-12-10 Thread bdnow
OK - I'll let you know what happens when you Americans get out of bed and I get a reply to my fax.