Re: Alex Podolinsky
Allan I'll do my best to tape the talk, but you may have to wait to hear it on our website? LL Liz I hope you meant LOL -Allan ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
Re: water consumption
- Original Message - From: Hamish Mackay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: water consumption Can anyone give me some hard data on reduction of water requirements on Biodynamic land? would be appreciated aye Hamish Mackay Hamish - how to measure this? There are an awful lot of variables! Our local wheatgrowers group (crop check) uses a water use efficiency calculation thats easy enough to do if nobody cheats, basically it tells us that wheat will (should) do from 15 to 25 kg per hectare per millimeter of growing season rainfall, there is a simple formula but it assumes an accurate and honest (sometimes a problem) estimate of stored moisture in the profile, and no cheating on the rainfall records. This works in a high input cropping situation but I prefer simpler comparisons. I was discussing this sort of thing with one of our Queensland cattlemen yesterday - he commented "since we started BD we have gotten extremely casual with bloat - have not seen one animal with a blown side for two years - we just turn em in the pasture and dont worry about it" my return to that was if BD did nothing else it would be worthwhilejust for the bloat prevention. That would be something worth focussing on and easy to document. Cheers Lloyd Charles ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
Re: water consumption
Hamish: I don't have them at hand but I believe that the BD / Conventional study done in Victoria back in the early 90s compared irrigation watering and I seem to remember a similar study in NZ. I'm fairly sure I read about both in "Newsleaf". Hope this helps. David C - Original Message - From: Hamish Mackay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 June 2003 2:47 PM Subject: water consumption Can anyone give me some hard data on reduction of water requirements on Biodynamic land? would be appreciated aye Hamish Mackay ___BDNow mailing list[EMAIL PROTECTED]You can unsubscribe or change your options at:http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
Re: keeping focussed - yeah and Aye Hamish
Yes let's keep focussed on the challenges we all face in different landscapes and different cultures. bdnow is a wonderful tool for sharing with and supporting each other in our Biodynamic work and striving. Yes Biodynamics is growing in Australia. We have a number of Biodynamic associations around the country and the 2 biggest have very different cultures. to me that matters not. what matters is that people are having a go. The second most important is that we share our experiences in the light of the laws of the free spiritual life. when our sharing descend below this level it does no-one any credit, but even then we need to have some modesty and tolerance. Like our Biodynamic practices we don't always get it right first go. I recently read Nature and our Ideals - a letter from Rudolf Steiner to Marie delle Grazie in response to her poem Nature in the preface was a quote from Rudolf Steiner's autobiography, The Course of My Life: ãI felt that I was in a spiritual atmosphere which was of genuine benefit to me. For this purpose I did not need agreement in ideas; I needed earnest and spiritual striving humanity, susceptible to the spiritual.ä aye Hamish Mackay ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow -- Graeme Gerrard 1480 Sapphire Coast Drive Wallagoot 2550 PO Box 39 Bega 2550 ph 6494 1191/0414 396 754 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow
