Re: Day of Infamy
I have such difficulty, accepting the unacceptable. Even thinking that it could happen, that such evil would occur. Could occur. Essie At 02:27 PM 03/20/03 +1100, you wrote: 20 March 2003 This date will be remembered as the Day of Infamy, a Day when 285,000 troops sitting on ships, airfields and battlegrounds in or near a dozen so-called independent nations in the Middle East awaited the call to arms. A call world opinion knows to be wrong. A call which has begun an unjustified invasion of a truly independent, sovereign nation. A call which will end the world as we, the 'civilised nations' of the West, know it. A call which demonstrates the depth of betrayal of those troops their governments will go to in defence of the triple-bottom-line of Earth's multi-national corporations. There is a right and wrong, you know. I have learned very little in my years, Bruce, but one thing I have learned. Foreign policies of this, or any other, country are not based on right and wrong. It is not for you and me to argue the right or wrong of this question. The only kingdom that runs on righteousness is the kingdom of heaven. The kingdoms of the earth run on oil. The Arabs have oil. Only the kingdom of heaven runs on righteousness, Bruce repeated. The kingdoms of the earth run on oil. You have learned something, sir. It seems that all of life itself is wrapped up in those lines. All of us . . . people . . . nations . . . live by need and not by truth. Never a truer word was spoken than these, penned by Leon Uris in his book 'EXODUS' copyright 1959. Nothing has changed except that Israel is subjecting its captive Palestinians to the same callous, destructive, iniquitous and unjustified treatment that its founders received from the British Government of that time. Substitute 'Iraquis' or 'Iranians' for 'Arabs' and you have the truth of the reason for the unconscionable War Against Iraq, which may be in progress even as I write these words. I ask of you these things: Your prayers for the troops on stand-by or alert in the Middle East, be they american, australian, british, iraqi or any other nationality, the vast majority of whom have not seen real combat, who have yet to learn the horrors of the battlefield. Your prayers also for the half-million or so Iraquis, most of them civilians, who will die as a result of this War, either directly from missiles and bloody fighting or indirectly from famine and other consequences. And, quite likely, millions of others. That those of you who have been active in trying to prevent this unjustified War do not cease in your endeavours, and that the rest of you think again about your stance. Please feel free to forward this message on. Towards understanding, Roger Earth Healing, Energy Water Dowsing, Reiki Practitioner %% May I have given you seeds that you can turn into roots that will bear fruit in the future. (Rudolf Steiner) %% Earthcare Environmental Solutions Mob: +61 410 469 541 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://earth-careonline.com
Re: In light of the Heightened Security State here in the Homeland, read this:
Actually, I think that Steve meant the Brooklyn Bridge. For eons, it has represented gullability (I have this bridge for sale at just the right price...). Essie At 12:19 PM 02/09/03 -0500, you wrote: It would have to be the Canadian Peace Bridge, wherever it is located, because American bombs destroyed the beautiful Peace/Holocaust Memorial Bridge in Belgrade that was designed by Einstein's son. It cannot be replaced. And yes it is true that Al Qaeda was heavily involved in the terrorist war against the Serbs as stated in Allan's post. And yes Clinton and Albright did side with the Islamic terrorists as part of breaking up Yugoslavia for the benefit of the Euro. They conducted a high altitude bombing of the Serbian civilian population which is technically a war crime. Where was the Hollywood peace movement then? Oh, then it was Clinton's war. Bob Thorson I think he means the Peace Bridge at Windsor, ON. Michael - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 6:43 AM Subject: Re: In light of the Heightened Security State here in the Homeland, read this: yeah, I believe that...wanna by a bridge??? sstorch Dear SS - Sorry, didn't catch your meaning - Allan
Re: In light of the Heightened Security State here in the Homeland, read this:
Bob- I was just giving my take on the bridge reference. I've not examined the website in any detail. Perhaps Steve has. Essie At 12:45 PM 02/09/03 -0500, you wrote: At 12:31 PM -0500 2/9/03, Essie Hull wrote: Actually, I think that Steve meant the Brooklyn Bridge. For eons, it has represented gullability (I have this bridge for sale at just the right price...). Essie Yes, that was obvious several layers of meaning ago. Are you saying that anyone giving serious consideration to the information at the Web site that Allan posted, viz http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/DCH109A.html, is gullible? If so, perhaps you and/or sstorch could tell us why the research is wrong. Bob
Re: Jane 's information
I agree, Allan. I subscribe to those lists as well. But I also agree with James Hedley's earlier post, about the value in diverse communications and building a community (and the ease of hitting delete when uninterested in a particular post). The bd list feels very much like a precious community, exploring, from the perspective of subtle energies (or however one would describe it), more than one phenomenon, but primarily agriculture. I would not like to see the list become overrun with issues diverging from agricultural biodynamics, but I think it's essential to not lose sight of wider related issues. Best and with great appreciation for the bd list, Essie At 08:00 AM 02/04/03 -0500, you wrote: Boy, Martha, I'm lost. Why don't interested people simply subscribe to globalnews and new york times like Jane and I do already? What's the gain in having a filter? -Allan
Re: to Jane Sherry
Will is really remarkable in his paternalistic, rude, hostile and most unimaginative remarks. Gil is an expert at the indirect putdown. Interesting that no one ever complains about crass or sexist posts. Interesting that no one ever blinks an eye when members share their daily number of hard ons with the list. But Jane, on a regular basis, is roasted for sharing posts of (in my opinion) relevance to the wider purview. BD as we all acknowledge in other contexts (except as it relates to Jane's postings) is related as widely as is subtle energy. We all are able to hit delete easily, and her posts are always listed under OT. Give me a break that her posts are a problem. Sorry I'm being rude. I acknowledge that I am being rude. There are in my opinion some elitist unconscious individuals here who sometimes try my patience beyond my ability to deal with them in a civilized way. Again, sorry. I'm sure I'll pull myself together in short order. But I do need to hit Send on this one. Essie At 11:01 AM 01/28/03 +1030, you wrote: I'm with you, Will. I am quite capable of finding all the information I require, without having it chosen for me. I actually sit on this list in the hope of gleaning some information on Biodynamics. Jane could you post your material to another list, such as the Not BD Now list. It would save us, collectively, hours a day deleting it, so we can read that which we are interested in - BD and the like. Gil Will Winter wrote: this stuff, which mostly comes by way of my ex-journalist-husband-who-reads-everything's- mailing list. If you can't tell, he reads really fast!!! IS YOUR REFERRAL SERVICE *OPTIONAL* ON THIS SITE? HOW MUCH WOULD I HAVE TO PAY YOU TO MAKE IT STOP! JEEZ!!! WGW
OT - interesting candidate
Folks - Sorry for the OT, but I wanted to share this: Howard Dean, a Vermonter, is a very interesting Democratic candidate. See: http://www.deanforamerica.com/ Essie
Re: LURKING was Re: Personal Security / Insecurity
Allan - Silence is complicity, as the saying goes. You present your views as though they are views that everyone should share and that, if someone doesn't share them, they either just don't understand (as in what you said below to Jane), or they are just plain unenlightened. It is fine that you hold your views, Allan. Listen, also, however, to those who have made the choice to speak out, or to step forward, and respect them for their choices. In my profession, the party line is to support people/clients/patients taking psychotropic medications. I absolutely disagree with that, 99% of the time. It is not politically correct to disagree with the party line, but I do, and everyone knows it, I suffer a bit in lowered popularity with traditional colleagues, but I've always had a thriving practice. I'm also an insurance provider, and the utilization review clinicians know how I feel about psychotropic meds. I don't talk about the issue in radical ways with those folk, but I don't conceal my views at all. I do believe that now, more than ever, it is essential to stand up for one's beliefs, to talk respectfully with others about those beliefs, and to try to change the avalanche of unconsciousness. Otherwise, one's life is this secret, hidden, fear-ridden event. Best to you, Essie At 02:45 PM 01/20/2003 -0500, you wrote: Is it possible that if potential employers would hold your personal beliefs and interests/hobbies against you that perhaps you wouldn't want to work for such people? And if they would use such measures as checking you out in a search engine and then judging you on such information instead of your merits as a scientist, then perhaps they would not be a good employer? Just my two cents, Jane S. No offense, Jane, but such considerations hold little water in many ares of the country where jobs are at a premium. One accepts that one must make compromises and work with people who one would not, for example, live with. The secret to survival, of course, is to keep your ideas to yourself. (Or, as I found out at one good paying job a dozen years back, keep you lunch to yourself! At that time seaweed filled miso soup was enough to cause problems among the middle Americans.)) Me thinks, Jane, per chance you have no idea what the rest of us go through. For you non-US folks, you probably have no idea of the level of total conformity that's expected here in the states. -Allan
Re: LURKING was Re: Personal Security / Insecurity
Allan and others - It seems to me that as a public we are inundated, force fed with bad works. People who only have the media-driven force feeding for a diet don't know that they have choices, but it is my experience that many people are remarkable when supported, respected and given real information and experiences.. I'm more interested in giving the public some real choices than I am in going underground. I'm more interested in participating in every child and every adult having the choice of eating food that will truly nourish them than I am in keeping the secret of what constitutes good food. I am more interested in assisting my neighbors create gardens in their backyards, gardens built on the foundation of living soil and microbes and energy than I am in just getting healthy myself, or in selling truly good food only to the wealthy. I am more interested in getting people to talk with each other about what is real and true and good than I am in pretending that the drivel that is passed off as truth even comes close to being true. I am more interested in rising up than I am in skulking. We all need to consider that we are teetering on the edge of bigtimeawful, and decide what our place is in that sort of time. Fear seems to drive everyone, and it is my observation that fear distorts our spirit and makes us distinctly unhappy. I don't know how to balance it all, actually. I don't have any issue with those who want to be more private, I guess - but I don't think that going underground keeps anyone safe, and I do think that going underground inhibits the effort and keeps the numbers of the faithful small. I also think that people critical of us doubtlessly think we're deranged, not dangerous. Actually, I did a Google search on Allan Balliett and didn't find anything inflammatory or even remotely negative (possibly I missed something). Best to you, Essie At 04:17 PM 01/20/03 -0500, you wrote: Listen, also, however, to those who have made the choice to speak out, or to step forward, and respect them for their choices. Essie - How do you suggest BD NOW! could provide for the above while respecting the wishes of those who would like to do their good works outside of the public eye? Would like to hear your plan. thanks -Allan
Re: Personal Security vs National Security
Allan - What was that about?? Essie At 09:57 PM 01/08/03 -0500, you wrote: Given that yours truly was recently refused entrance into a public building because a web search revealed that my 'world view does not coincide with ours.'
Re: Perfect Orchard
Per - Visit Hugh Lovel's website: www.unionag.org for a good, thorough explanation and diagram of the construction of a field broadcaster. If you want to come over and see my broadcaster, I'll be home more than I ordinarily am over the holidays and we could set something up after Christmas. Essie At 09:07 PM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote: HI all , This is my 3rd year going in to the 4, (Planing and implementing my Orchard and refurbishing our Barn) but perhaps my fingers will not work that long. And they are hurting today as I got hit by a popping wood piece of ash as we where splitting the wood for the winters heating. I understand that I need to be an open minded person that's why I like wine. I do still not comprehend what do this setup do, field broadcaster is not Radionics. What is the function ?? Thanks Per Garp/NH - Original Message - From: Lloyd Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 05:48 PM Subject: Re: Perfect Orchard - Original Message - From: James Hedley [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 10:36 PM Subject: Re: Perfect Orchard Dear Hugh, Lloyd, Gil, Per Garp and others, Just to start the discussion rolling I agree that a field broadcaster is not Radionics. It is just one of the many tools available to try to influence subtle energy or force fields. OK guys - if its not radionics, what is it? We use radionically prepared homeopathic reagents in it, we can use it to do many of the same things that are done with a proper radionic instrument (broadcasting crows out of a paddock for example). I believe that the top well of a pipe could function as a radionic instrument does ie across time, space, unlimited distance. Do we need to agree on tight definitions here? Radionics to me is scanning analysis and treatment using variable rate instruments such as the Mattioda/ Rogers. There is much more of radiesthesia involved in the English system, but there is a huge area of overlap in all subtle energies from the ormus minerals through instruments of various types to classical biodynamic agriculture, all of these are treading the same patch of ground. Subtle energy is a step by step process for the newcomer. example- Its relatively easy to get across to an open minded person that we can take a polaroid photo of a field , animal, or whatever and capture the energy pattern on the metallic negative, then put that in the well of a radionic instrument and treat - the box has knobs and dials on , its ok for many people to go that far. Now tell that same person that we can use an old photo to treat a new problem and the eyes glaze a bit - we are into science fiction - time travel here to the newcomer. Another problem we have is where does our reality end (results) and our imagination start (what was going to happen anyway) I look forward to an interesting christmas break - this discussion could last into january easy Cheers Lloyd Charles
Re: Radionics and Field Broadcasting was Re: Perfect Orchard
Now, I'm not going to even begin to try to explain field broadcasting, but (after it's explained), Per can come over to my place to see my broadcaster, if he wishes. He, by my reckoning, lives about 20 minutes from me. Essie At 06:40 AM 12/16/02 -0500, you wrote: Hugh - Let's do it! -Allan Dear Per, We need a discussion on this. Radionics, is not exactly the same as field broadcasting. But they are related. I'll have to get back to this. In the meanwhile, any others like to have a go at this? Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
OT: Comfort
I picked up John O'Donohue's book, Anam Cara (Soul Friend) the other night, and was warmed and moved, as I always am, by his introductory blessing: BEANNACHT (by John O'Donohue) On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble, may the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the gray window and the ghost of loss gets in to you, may a flock of colors, indigo, red, green and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the curach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you, may there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours, may the fluency of the ocean be yours, may the protection of the ancestors be yours. And so may a slow wind work these words of love around you, an invisible cloak to mind your life. His words remind me of what is deeply true - and SStorch reminds me of it as well, and Hugh, and many others. Best, in these times of change and possibility, Essie Resentment is like drinking poison and then waiting for the other person to die.
Re: RE Loss and Rebirth 9/11
Cheryl - It IS really freaky. Essie At 03:52 PM 11/01/02 +1100, you wrote: Have you seen what can happen when you print in the flight number of the first plane to hit the WTC on 9/11 In word new doc, print in the flight number Q33NY Change type size to 26, then change the font to Wingdings and see what you get - really freaky. see below if you want see it before you try it yourself Q33NY Cheryl Kemp Education and Workshop Coordinator Biodynamic AgriCulture Australia Phone /Fax : 02 6657 5322 Home: 02 6657 5306 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.biodynamics.net.au
Re: The Stakes
Your reminders are empowering and encouraging, Steve. I appreciate your clarity. Essie At 08:07 AM 10/15/02 -0400, you wrote: Yes, the stakes are high, but the powers forget the other branch of government, the people. Media skews viewpoints, and makes the majority feel alone and as a minority. I am finding it harder to believe that so many folks are so asleep as I meet more and more likeminded people. Americans, like the Islamic/Muslim people will soon also be pushed into a corner and forced into action to claim what is theirs. Freedom is hard to come by and will be increasingly harder to remove. The old paradigm is crumbling and the events we see are a last attempt to grab freedoms and destroy wills...SStorch
Re: 1/2 Strength Genocide was Re: Acceptable GM?
At 09:13 AM 09/22/02 -0400, Allan wrote: Eat lots of food that is grown with proper use of the biodynamic preps and, of course, do not forget to eat your root vegetables!! -Allan Interesting that you should say that, Allan. Unlike any other year in my memory, this year I have been positively driven to preserve food from my amazingly abundant garden. Usually I tuck away only the root vegetables. This year I've canned many, many, many sauces and preserves, dehydrated many things, and frozen foods as well. As I said, I usually store only root vegetables and squashes. This year is different. On some intuitive level, it feels as though I'm preparing for hard times. Essie
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie
Re: OT:FW: [globalnews] 100 jets join attack on Iraq
I'm asking if he's written anything since he wrote 9-11. To my knowledge, that was published in the US. I've been looking for something from him any day now since Bush et al went so unabashedly off the deep end and our freedoms vanish by the moment. Essie At 02:49 PM 09/08/02 -0400, you wrote: At 09:40 AM 09/08/02 -0700, you wrote: Also, as far as North America is concerned, Chomsky's book, published in Britain, does not exist. No publisher in the US was willing to publish it. It is highly critical of US gov't policies. Michael - Original Message - All of Chomsky's many books are highly critical of US gov't policies. Is this a new book (written after his book: 9-11) and, if so, what's the title? Essie If it is the book 9-11, I picked that one up at Borders -Allan
Re: ADMIN: Attachent Automatically Removed
Yes, Alan. Especially in the past couple of days. Initially, I wasn't affected. Now I am. Essie At 05:59 AM 08/27/02 -0400, you wrote: For those of us who are affected by the *** ATTACHMENT AUTOMATICALLY REMOVED! ** syndrome, here are the texts of three messages from Dave Robison: Is this still going on for people? Let me know at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and I'll approach envirolink again. Thanks -Allan
Re: Field Broadcaster//Insect and weed peppers
Well, Alan, I did call my friend and she tells me that she has just about as many Japanese beetles as she did before she peppered them. No more, no less (which, actually, might represent some but not a great deal of progress). Now, next year, if I have beetles, I'm going to pepper them with strong, focussed intent, and put them into both wells and see what happens. Essie At 08:22 PM 08/25/02 -0400, you wrote: Actually, I do know one other person who made a pepper - the person to whom I donated my first field broadcaster when I upgraded - and she, in fact, made a Japanese beetle pepper. She lives about 10 miles from me. I'll check with her to see what happened, and will let you know. Looking forward to hearing about this, Essie! Thanks for your post. -Allan
Re: Insect peppers
Of course, Hugh. I'd be happy to send you samples. Would vials be better than zip-locks? Just let me know. It'll be the weekend before I can get to it. Also, each of my vials is about 1/3 full of pepper. How much is that in grams, would you say? Essie At 08:12 AM 06/25/02 -0400, you wrote: Dear Essie, Would it be possible to get a sample of each of your peppers? A gram or two in a tiny ziploc bag would do. And can you determine what species(s) of slug you have? I take it there are several. I would like to send them off to England and have Malcolm Rae cards made. That way we can make up potencies as appropriate to each location. I gather you are using the straight pepper in your broadcaster without potentization. I guess we'll see how that works, but I have a feeling potencies are safer and will work better. Also, it is my belief that you do NOT want to burn everything to ash. You need some of the original carbon framework to have the pattern of that unique species. But, of course, you want to drive off ALL of the moisture and things related to moisture. As for fungus on strawberries, the old one--two punch involves tieing up the nitrates in the soil with an evening time drench of oak bark (505) and then spraying the foliage with the equisetum the next morning. The oak bark holds back the nitrates from the lime side so the plant is less salty and watery, while the horsetail draws in warmth from the silica side and hardens the plant. Best, Hugh At 09:40 PM 6/24/02 -0400, Allan wrote: Essie - would you mind including a little more 'how to' info on your pepper making? What's your track record like? -Allan Allan - Here's the procedure, as I've done it. Collect as many specimens as you feel necessary. I collected a good 100 slugs, most adolescent, a couple of adults. All in one pass through the potatoes. Probably 50 potato beetles (dead), and maybe 70 potato beetle larvae (from lilies). The count is not exact. First I cooked the slugs. Put them in a small glass saucepan with cover (turned on the stove fan), and cooked them slowly until they were blackened. Then I crunched them up and cooked them some more until they were mostly (not entirely, however - I didn't have quite enough patience) white ash. Then cooled them a bit and put the ash into a small glass vial and put vial into bottom well of field broadcaster (slugs crawl rather than fly - hence bottom well). I followed the same process with the adult potato beetles, but put that vial into the upper well (since they fly). I followed the same process with the larvae, putting that vial into the bottom well. The larvae were shredding my Casa Blanca lilies (no others), and the shredded leaves were covered with what clearly was excrement, with larvae in the middle of the excrement. They definitely eat where they shit. And vice versa. Now, I've previously only peppered with slugs. Five years ago, I did it once and had (truly) an 80 percent reduction in two weeks. The next year I did it again and had an 80-85 percent reduction. Until this year, I was virtually slug-free since then. But this year the potatoes were innundated, with both slugs and adult potato beetles. The lilies were shredded by potato beetle larvae, and I've never had that problem before, ever. My area is low and wet, easily prone to slugs. Also, I used a great deal of leaf mulch this year as well - which apparently served as a Y'all come to the slug legions. Now, I made all peppers yesterday. Tonight, on patrol, I found two slugs, one beetle larva, and 11 adult beetles (10 of them copulating, two by two. The odd duck was doing something that could've been self-stimulating, but it was dark, the flashlight was weak, and I felt that the least I could do was to respect his/her privacy before squashing him/her. We've had a drastic change in weather since yesterday - from days of rain and drizzle to high pressure with some strong breezes and sun. The weather change definitely could influence the change in population. Stay tuned. I'll report on population levels every few days. Now, I also do have flea beetles and no stinging nettle to make a tea. They are too small to catch and pepper, or, believe me, I'd do that. Just to tack on a marginally related question - would application of equisetum tea be a good preventative for fungus on strawberries? Putting plants into tub with bubblers for a couple of days and then diluting a bit (how much?)? Best, Essie CIA stands for Capitalism's Invisible Army Buckminster Fuller Visit our website at: www.unionag.org /blockquote/x-html
Insect peppers
Well, today I made and installed 3 peppers: slug (bottom well, field broadcaster), adult Colorado potato beetle (upper well, fb), and larvae, Colorado potato beetle (bottom well). The larvae were decimating my lilies, growing up, and relocating to the potatoes. I don't enjoy making peppers, but there's a real insect problem this year, for the first time in 4-5 yrs. We'll see how it goes. 4-5 years ago, when I made a slug pepper, the results were evident within 2 weeks. Stay tuned. Best, Essie
Re: bT for Potato Beetles
At 03:06 PM 6/22/02 -0400, Allan wrote: It's not just me, folks, the whole county is being over run with pests due to the very light winter we had. Anyone know the poop on Johnny's potato bt? I understand that it is not GMO, but Shep Ogden had to laugh at the thought that it really wasn't. Anyone use it? Thanks -Allan I must agree - I have more pests so far this year than I've had in the past 4-5 years. I'll be making potato beetle pepper tomorrow morning, and slug pepper as well. The house will be filled with the decidedly not-yummy aroma of cooking carcasses. We'll see what happens. The slug pepper will go in the bottom well of the broadcaster, the potato beetle in the upper well (maybe some in the bottom well, as well?). I had great success with slug pepper 4 years ago. Essie
Re: Poison Ivy (Prevoiusly RE RoundUp)
So would I. Essie At 09:54 AM 6/15/02 -0500, you wrote: Greetings Virginia, I would like to know how to get and prepeare the vinegar you talked about. Thanks, Deborah
Re: Compost brews
If I'm not mistaken, Allan, Mark Fulford says that you can see the brix shift within two hours of application. Essie At 05:45 AM 5/14/02 -0400, you wrote: I think the brewing process needs to have gone more or less according to plan to produce a beneficial outcome - a refractometer test of treated plants will soon sort that out Lloyd - How long do you wait before Brix testing the plants? -Allan
Re: Political posts
I agree. I'd hope that Jane would resume her periodic political contributions. Part of the issue lies in recognizing that all facets of life are interrelated rather than fragmented, and then in living life from that perspective. The belief and practice that parts of us can be effectively dealt with in isolation from the whole of us, create much of the dysfunction, dispair and dis-ease of today's world. Best to all, Essie At 11:55 PM 4/26/02 -0400, you wrote: Dears, I've stated my views before. I go along with Deborah and would like to see the political posts once in a while on this list. I don't think they are too many and if I'm in a hurry I use the delete key. I'm puzzled that people would quit the list because of a few political posts. We don't farm in either a scientific/religious vacuum, a political vacuum or an economic vacuum. It's all intimately related. Best, Hugh Lovel Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
Re: Fw: curiosity, to share
Jane - How best to explore this? I'd been wondering the same thing, and your forward was reassuring in that it gave some basis, or at least some support, to my paranoia. Essie At 09:50 AM 4/14/02 -0400, you wrote: - forwarded message - Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 7:45 AM Is anybody keeping a count on the number of sudden deaths by accident ... of high ranking (persons of special and unique qualifications and/or achievement) scientists in the U.S. in recent months. By my count, it seems that there have been at least three Starting with that unbelievable death on the bridge over the Mississippi in Memphis. I am also very interested in the recent revelations that the high-ranking ENRON official who supposedly committed suicide soon after the ENRON disclosures -- maybe did NOT commit suicide. The case is now considered a possible homicide..??? snip from Roy Beavers, emf-guru Subject: Dr. Brown Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 22:57:18 EDT From: snip To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roy, I believe you were in this field? My understanding of Dr. Brown is that he was real close to patent an alternative fuel source. There is some whispering that it was an intentional accident. MERIDIAN, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- April 8, 2002-- Nuclear Solutions, Inc. (OTCBB:NSOL - news) regretfully announces the death of Dr. Paul M. Brown. Dr. Brown was killed on April 7, 2002 in an automobile accident in Boise, Idaho. He developed the idea for the Company's patented photoremediation technology for the remediation of nuclear waste that will now be his legacy. He is survived by his wife and two children. ``Our team is saddened by this tragic loss, however, we remain fully committed to realizing the vision that Dr. Brown inspired us with. His vision holds the promise of safe and economical treatment of nuclear waste and the potential for a new generation of power reactors,'' said John Dempsey, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. ``We have assembled a management and scientific team that is competent and fully capable of implementing the technology that Dr. Brown invented as well as our newer acquisitions such as our GHR tritium removal technology,'' he concluded.
Re: Plant exudates
I believe that Dr. Ingham is in Australia right now. She, in my experience, always does respond to questions, and there is always a delay when she is away from her home base. Essie At 01:43 AM 3/26/02 -0300, you wrote: Not a problem. So far I have managed to find a reference that shows that plant roots do exudate amino acids so we are almost getting there. Dr Ingham still have anot answered my question. Jose Hay Jose, Hugh Lovel's reply to you refers Would you mind posting the references from Ward Penwarn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), if you have any success in sourcing them. Thanks Stephen Barrow
Re: Gardening Shed Advice (?)
Dears - You know, this list is quite the community. Reading the postings re your shed, Allan, made me on the one hand wish that we all were in fact a physical community - what a grand event your shed would be! And then I realized that we are in fact a community - of energy and support and inspiration. Each of us, in our own way, is out there trying to bring light into darkness, life into lifelessness. Our presence for each other provides an oasis of confirmation that what we are doing is in fact what urgently needs to be done. Blessings on us all. Best, Essie At 08:22 AM 3/19/02 -0500, you wrote: Wayne - Thanks for taking the time to write the good note. We never use pressure treated wood in any fashion near food that humans will eat or, in fact, anywhere on this conservation property. Were you, perhaps, talking about the 'new, improved' pressure treated wood? If so, I'd like to hear more about it. We use locust posts/ logs/ timbers in most situtions where pressure treated wood w.b. called for in conventional construct. Yes, using logs can be very tedious! -Allan PS Just an 'update' for everyone: this is not a tractor shed, this is a shed for storing hand tools (spades/forks), amendments (rock dust) and field seed (rye/buckwheat/etc) I am hoping to also be able to have a 'desk' at the entrance way.
Re: Corn == Soil Improvement Crop
Hugh - I would appreciate a step-by-step rundown. We moved into drought conditions last year and had the driest winter just about on record. Looks like being able to make rain could really come in handy. Best, Essie At 11:55 PM 3/16/02 -0500, Hugh wrote: I envy those with the climate to grow un-irrigated corn. We are at the harvest end of the corn season and have had 48 days straight with no rain and about nine points in 85 days. This is our dry season, but for a lot of important parts of Oz it is their rainy season and many on this list are very short of rain. Gil Port Lincoln Dear Gil, You may not be out of the box. Here in Georgia I've found dry years are preferable for my corn yields. I've had several years where I got six weeks (42 days) of no rain and gotten killer corn crops with no irrigation. I know farmers all around me were complaining, and the forests were on fire on one occasion, but my corn wasn't twisting. Instead it was filling out to the ends of the ears. I actually prefer dry years, especially early dry, because in early dry years the weeds don't get off to much of a start and the corn takes everything. I think the secret is getting the moisture to tie up inside the cell membranes of living organisms in the soil. Then it doesn't evaporate or sink, just is there. As the protozoans dine off the azotobacters, baccilli, etc. the moisture is released at the corn roots and the plants suck it up, despite no rain. As long as corn gets its nutrients as the next thing to protoplasm it doesn't have to waste moisture in transpiration. The leaves aren't doing the protein chemistry, which requires water, only the sugar chemistry which runs off of absorption of CO2. Then they need a lot less moisture and their protoplasm is turgid and complete. 48 days is a lot of time without rain. But I think maybe I could handle it with a broadcaster and horn clay, horn silica and horn manure. We get dry here, but six weeks is not uncommon and that has made my best corn crops. But I guess I'm a little short of sunshine being in a narrow mountain valley. But in your situation I don't think I'd give up hope. We're kind of at the antipodes--almost like you but six months different. Making rain is another topic. Maybe my rain making is why after six weeks and I get anxious about rain I've turned to rain making and gotten rain instead of seven or eight weeks without any. I've gotten the impression this list is skeptical about my rain making procedure. Believe me 501 really is an essential ingredient in making rain, contrary to the Podolinsky wisdom. I like to do it radionically, so not everyone can duplicate it, not having instruments. I don't find sequential spraying quite as effective and it's much more work, though done rightly it can be close to as good. I've used my irrigation once in the past 12 years, many of which have been state-wide droughts in Georgia, so I might just know something. Anyone interested in a run down? Best, Hugh Best, Hugh Lovel
Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?
Allan - Gypsum increases calcium w/o introducing lime or changing the ph. Also colloidal phosphate is a good source of calcium. Aragonite is a great low-mag source of calcium, but it will also raise the ph. Finally, a serving of Azomite never hurt anything. Eh? Best, Essie At 08:55 AM 3/11/02 -0500, you wrote: Mind sharing how you plant and manage your potatoes? I've been very disappointed with my crops the past two years. Doing great on the freedom from bugs and pretty good on the freedom from blight (last year I mis-identified a fungal attack for sunscald and lost a whole row of a variety by responding two late. For whatever reason, an application of equisetum tea brought the others through, however. Hugh tells me that he doesn't hill any more. He mulches with old hay. (Anyone got good tips for unrolling big bales??) I've got lots of old straw, but straw holds so much water, it kind of worries me to have it around the spuds. I did lose a crop of spuds one year by apply hay after the tops had come up: they melted away with fungus withing the week. Woody's suggestion of dipping the cut pieces in a slurry of local clay and BC has worked very well for us. I don't think we ever have a cutting that doesn't result in a plant. A good geek question for me: my Albrecht report suggests two tons of lime an acres. The area I want to put the spuds in has not been limed (the pH is 6.8) and I'd like to lime it after I put the spuds in but most sources say to not lime a spud patch because it leads to scab. For myself, however, I can easily suspect that my low yields could be attributed to not enough calcium-based lime in the soils (Ideas?) How do you do your spuds?
Re: Recordings of Will Brinton on the Value of Compost and SallyFallon on the Dangers of the Food Processing Industry
I would be interested, too, Allan Thanks, Essie At 07:56 AM 3/5/02 -0500, you wrote: Hi! Allan, I would be interested Can you build in a device to tell you how many hits, to see if it is used? Gil Sure, but that's not the point right now I need to know if there is really an interest If it's 5 people who care, hell, maybe I should send them a tape, you know? -Allan
Re: Radionics (Drought update)
Our winter in NH has been quite dry. Unusually dry. Much too dry. Essie At 07:44 AM 2/20/02 -0700, you wrote: Dear List: Our experience at Aurora Farm for the past two years or so has been one where we have to work much harder at the sequential sprays in order to bring that Blessed Moisture. And we would have to very much agree with Peter Thompkins take on having devices(eloptic) any where in one's vicinity. Too much atmospheric interference for nature to find a balance. How has everyone's winter been? Dry? Blessings, Barbara Aurora Farm is the only unsubsidized, family-run seed farm in North America offering garden seeds grown using Rudolf Steiner's methods of spiritual agriculture. http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora -Original Message- From: Steven McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, February 18, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: Re: Radionics (Drought update) how does this new information jive with the growing belief among growers that tiny manmade airborne particles are being intentionally released in the atmosphere? Most uncomfortably, I should say. - S Steven McFadden Chiron Communications 7 Avenida Vista Grande #195 Santa Fe, NM 87508 USA http://www.chiron-communications.com
Re: Radionics (Drought update)
At 09:52 PM 2/14/02 +1100, James and Barbara wrote: This proposition is backed up by the use of Sai Baba's Sanjeevini healing cards that can be downloaded from his web page. Would you please send me the web address - I can't seem to locate the cards. Thanks, Essie Hull
Re: ashing
My experience is that foxes are especially numerous this year, as are weasels. Probably to highlight the burgeoning political atrocities, similar in energy. Essie At 08:48 AM 1/9/02 -0300, you wrote: Allan Balliett wrote: (American wire fence going up around the garden before this coming growing season) Let me tell you, if they are as smart there as they are here, they will find a way to dig a tunnel under your American wire fence... - fernando -- REDUZIR, REUSAR, RECICLAR -- Dever de todos, amor aos que virão REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE -- Everybody's duty, love to those who are to come Fernando CabralPadrao iX Sistemas Abertos mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pix.com.br Fone Direto: +55 61 329-0206 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PABX: +55 61 329-0202 Fax: +55 61 326-3082 15º 45' 04.9 S (23 L 0196446/8256520) 47º 49' 58.6 W 19º 37' 57.0 S (23 K 0469898/7829161) 45º 17' 13.6 W
Re: Albrecht System and plant brix testing
What about sources of reasonably priced refractometers in the U.S.? Anyone know of any? Essie Hull At 03:42 PM 1/2/02 +1100, you wrote: Allan wrote . Brix can readily be affected by foliar applications can't it? -Allan Above is the most important little snippet of information thats been on this list for ages I know that (but dont understand why) a lot of organic and BD certified producers are philosophicaly opposed to foliar nutrient applications. When farmers are in the situation where we dont have our soils in balance yet, or something else is wrong that has put our system off the track for a while and we are suffering insect or disease attack, or poor plant growth due to some nutritional disorder then is when we can make a major improvement in quality of produce by using the brix meter to monitor the crops response to a range of available foliar nutrients. And there are plenty of nice things to use this includes the BD preps, fish emulsion, kelp, worm juice, compost teas, manure teas, molasses, sugar, vinegar, etc etc as well as the host of proprietary brand stuff, and the so called nasties from the chemical companies ( we often use small quantities of say calcium nitrate -1/2 to 1 kg per hectare -combined with molasses and fish emulsion or 300 to 500 ml of food grade phosphoric acid with a molasses - kelp - fish - homebrew tea ) I use four small pump spray bottles from the supermarket to test for crop response - mix the different brews in the exact proportion that will be put out with the field sprayer, spray a meter square plot of each and measure the brix response half an hour later, you will often get a down response from a perfectly good material that is just not appropriate at the time - whichever bottle mix gives the best crop response (increased brix of crop and decreased brix of any weeds) is the one to use and less quantity is usually better than more The crop response (yield and quality ) that can be achieved at low cost using this method can be truly amazing. We have had several times where brews that ran around a dollar an acre material cost have given several bushels per acre more wheat as well as lessening the vigour of weeds in the crop This is not rocket science and its not new either I read the brix mans online book this morning and would recommend it to all - and while it seems written more for the consumer than the producer - its good information - as also the book by Arden Andersen that is referred to there For those having difficulty finding instruments at a reasonable price in Australia or New Zealand David Von Pein in Queensland is the most cost effective supplier of this gear that I have seen (dont know how this bloke makes a profit he's heaps cheaper than most) - OK thats a plug but I have no financial connection ! After we get our soils properly balanced and remineralised to Albrecht standards and get our biodynamics working right and everything else is good then I suppose what I have written here no longer applies - in the mean time its another tool we can all use to grow better quality produce at less expense for the good of all - and I know at least one feller that needs to make a profit from his farm in the short term. Best to all for the new year Lloyd Charles
Re: So, Sopia Christine...was Re: 3 Kings Spray
I'd be interested in obtaining these ingredients, too. Essie Hull At 12:14 PM 12/1/01 -0500, you wrote: Can you find out if WELEDA US can easily supply these items, what the pricing w.b. and how we in the outlands would order these ingredients timely? (Sorry for this imposition right now.) Take 30g each of Aurum metallicum D2 (Weleda) - gold Frankincense (olibanum) (Weleda) Myrrh resin Grind these together in a porcelain mortar for one hour until a fine powder is attained. This powder is then thoroughly mixed with 50g of rainwater and 50g of glycerine (Weleda) in order to create an emulsion. These quantities will provide about 190g thick emulsion or paste. This preparation can be used immediately or stored for years in an airtight, non-metallic container in a dark, cool, dry place. Note: If the preparation is to be used immediately, glycerine emulsion is not necessary and the powder can be used as soon as it is mixed. According to Michael Hahn who has long experience with this preparation the best time for making the mixture is on New Year's Eve 23.30-00.30. This is a very significant time since according to Rudolf Steiner the transition from one year to the next coincides with a unique moment when the consciousness of the plant world and that of the minerals is united. Thanks -Allan Michael and others, check this site: http://www.anth.org.uk/biodynamic/Three%20Kings%20Preparation.htmhttp://www.anth.org.uk/biodynamic/Three%20Kings%20Preparation.htm Ingredients from JPI. Perry - Original Message - From: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Michael Roboz To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 01, 2001 10:07 AM Subject: 3 Kings Spray Steve-what is the 3 Kingspray? Michael
