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I'm very impressed by how you folks up North stick together. -Allan
Does anyone happen to have a copy of either Walters' or Pfeiffer's
book on this topic? I can't lay my hands on mind. I'm looking for
details on the what SPINY PIG WEED indicates. (I know, I know, it's a
karmic thing.) If you have the time to look that one up for me, I'd
surely appreciate it.
PS Have u checked out www.union.org ? what is that all about ??
Sorry, it eludes me. Can someone else help? -Allan
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I'm very impressed by how you folks up North stick together. -Allan
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Dear Lloyd, Roger, James,
Actually, Eric has left the list because he is in the middle of
moving from cattle country in Alberta to a more sophisticated mixed
farming area in British Columbia. Michael
Actually, Michael, Eric is off the list because Allan pulled the plug
on him. I would have
I have used the website to unsub from this list but I'm still
getting mail. is there anyone in charge?
Lucia
LUcia - Unsub is automatic if you follow the directions at the
website. Perhaps you are receiving mail through an address different
that what you are unsubbing?
Please give it another
Keith - I didn't see any attachments to Gil's email on this end.
Everyone knows to not send attachments to BD Now! You are probably
seeing that html artifact that some email tools pick up. I don't
understand why it w.b. infected, though.
-Allan
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Hackers apparently are making concerted attacks on websites on Sun., July 6.
M.
Is that what you heard? I heard that anarchists are uniting to stop
the US from democratizing the world. -AB
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Greg wrote last that he was rubbing his preps on his head big time
now he writes he almost died
why do we want to read any thing more?
Just curious?
Greg has recently joined BD Now!, Mark. I'll leave it to him to
explain that one for you. (And perhaps your reference for the sake of
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
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Do you have a wild patch of equisetum or did
you establish a bed for the purpose of harvesting?
A natural patch I recently discovered
As an aside, what is the benefit / effect of tansy tea?
I'd expect to use it as an insect repellent, but I do not know what
the experience of others has been
The
try clay and 501 on the rust, I have had success with that...sstorch
Can you give more details, Steve? -Allan
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Until I have more time to spare, I'll follow Courtney;s advice to
leave the leaves on (I have never had too much activity from a
batch.) and Kolisko's recommendation to go anaerobic.
What I'm trying to find out, I guess, is if it is possible for a 'sun
tea' of equisetum (whatever the term:
Infections Now More Widespread
Animals Passing Them to Humans
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, June 15, 2003; Page A01
It happens again and again.
Strange and frightening new infections seem to appear out of nowhere,
such as Lyme disease, Ebola and, of course, AIDS. With
**WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION***
UPDATE
June 16, 2003
THE CASE FOR BANNING GENETICALLY MODIFIED ORGANISMS (GMOs)
The Independent Science Panel (ISP) released on
Dear Friend of Orion,
This is a fundraising letter.
These are dreadfully difficult times for non-profit organizations devoted to
healing human relations with the natural world. At a time when they are
needed most, we hear from one fine organization after another that they are
being forced to
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Planet Jr. seed sowing machines were important tools for
American vegetable, herb, and flower growers for over 90 years. The
brand changed ownership several times, presently in the hands of
Powell Manufacturing Co. in South Carolina. Over the last
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National School Lunch Program, the U.S.
From: Sarah Cherry
Hi, Liz,
I realized that the communication,
feelings, energy flows or whatever you want to call it were different
for decay when the plant was manifesting an insect problem than when
it just needed water. Same with growth. The forces in a well-ordered
plant are
Arjen -
You can currently access a large portion of the BD Now! archives
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Your password for the archives should have been given to you in the
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Welcome to the group, Arjen!! Sounds like you have a wealth of
experience to share with the group!
My question, first!
Hey, what do you use to accumulate orgone for a field or farm?
Thanks
-Allan Balliett
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The farmer is the best orgone accumulator, next a chembuster device as
discussed a few months ago, see yer archives...sstorch
Steve = I got all that. Let's hear about Arjen's experiences, ok?
Sounds like he's working with some people who are onto something.
-Allan
PS Don't you mean a fully
Just for clarification:
I think the argument for pasture-fed ruminates has already been won
in the biological farming movement. I do not think that anyone in
this movement who has been paying attention thinks that it is ok to
feed by-products (proteins) or grains, for that matter, to grazing
Lettuces have been the test
plant and various mixes and matches of the preparations have been used. She
has a list of other questions that I could pass on to anyone who would like
to discuss them.
I'd like to see these! -Allan
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One might also ask why the Warble fly is such a pest and would peppering be
part of the remedy?
Peter.
If you follow the dollar trail, massive amounts of pesticides were
applied to 'the entire british herd' at 3 times the normal
application rate. It appears to me that the move to eradicate the
I don't know jack about 'tyres' but I do know that in the US tires
were banned by gardening clubs for use as planters because they shed
to much cadmium and, apparently other road-collected heavy metals. We
used to cut them and stack them to make tomato planters for low
income households that
I know that Curtis Lang resigned as moderator of Global News, and I
haven't seen any posts from Jane Sherry since. Has she left this
list? Lance
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Jane has signed off BD Now!
WE have a don't ask/don't tell policy, of course.
-Allan
Friends -
If you have a sizeable post to share with this group, please send it
up in segments. Mark the sequence number in the subject e.g. 1/32
Things we use as subsoilers in Kansas, 2/32 Things we use as
subsoilers in Kansas, etc
Please keep the size of each packet at about 35k
Please
In reading this article, I recognized a similarity in independence of spirit
between many on this list, and the farmers described in the article. -Jill
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,929142,00.html
Tomato republic
Burhan Wazir discovers that a little thing like war does not prevent
The conventional farmer who manages the grass-fed beef at the farm
I'm doing CSA at this season refuses to feed kelp free choice to deal
with end-of-the-winter lice infestations on the steers because 'Well,
you think that kelp is natural, but I'll tell you, there's nothing
natural at all about
avifauna! Oh, Chris, thanks for the new word!!! -Allan
Dear Hugh -
You gave me a lot of cultural information about growing ginger at
ACRES. I've finally got around to buying a couple of cases of it from
the local food co-op.
Something I was wondering was if you thought that here in the
Northern Virginia area I might be better off planting it in a
In the agriculture lectures Steiner
refers several times to keeping the work on the farm in the realm of the
living. Ergo, sheathe material from domestic and wild animals, plants, and
manures.
Bravo, Steve. It's the absolute truth. Working in the realm of the
living at all times. _Allan
Alberto Thanks for this information. I wish you would post it to BD
Now! yourself. This information is RIGHT ON TOPIC. Please help keep
farmers everywhere informed. _Allan
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open to responding to more questions/comments that appear on BD Now!
regarding atmospheric manipulation.-Allan
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Thirty Meteres??? Tell them that window cleaners on Manhattan skyscrapers
were pelted with a substance up on there scaffolding. When collected and
analyzed turned out to be wheat chaff...sstorch
I bet it was grist from the great Wall Street mill...
from the Leopold Center Home Page:
The Future of Agrarianism: Where Are We Now?[1]
Frederick Kirschenmann
Director, Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
If the [current] pattern holds, farming as a way of life will
mainly disappear within the next 50 years, large swaths of the
country
ask the ants and lady bugs to come and eat...sstorch
Not the ants, Steve. Don't invite the ants to the greenhouse. It is
they who manage the aphids...
What would you think about an orgone accumulator built around my stirring
machine. I have just recieved the materials and am going to try it...???
I assume you've read DeMeo's book on that topic?
That book is the reason that we do not have an accumulator in our house.
-Allan
I might have a couple of good pictures soon that would help with this, can I
email them to you. (thats if i can get them scanned in properly)
Lloyd - If you don't mind, let's get these posted to the web. I'm
happy to publish them for you, if you don't have your own means. If
you need to have
Thanks!
Probably best to send it to me off-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
-Allan
btw the BIONEERS site has great links on it. Most of all, it's
reminder of how many great articles are published through ACRES USA,
but there are a lot of other links there, also. Thanks for thinking
of your neighbors, Pat! ;-)
March 13, Thursday, Chicago, IL
Lecture and book signing:
The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence
Bederman Auditorium, 618 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago:
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March 15, Saturday, Wheaton, IL
Seminar:
Allan - Why not use a refractometer? Have a chart available explaining what
Brix is. Challenge your customers to find produce with a higher Brix reading
than yours.
Ron
Ron - As far as I know, objectively speaking, there is no proof that
brix represents anything other than a higher sugar content.
Hi Allan,
Have you tried bioneers.org?
Pat
uh-uh. What did you have in mind? _Allan
Folks - I'd appreciate it if you'd pass any information like this to
BD Now! or to me personally. As you are probably aware, there is not
a strong body of information supporting the health promoting
superiority of organically grown food. We all know it in our hearts
and through our personal
Eric - they are only as dumb as those that think that ALL organic food is
better than ALL non organic food - we need to make the distinction between
food grown to minimum organic certification standards and properly grown
organic food with trace mineral integrity and high energy. BIG difference!!
Barrel compost, or CPP, is something that BD has to
offer organic farmers and sustainable agriculture on
a much wider scale, by the way. There are different
ways to tweak the recipe and make special cultures.
In India, CPP is getting wider and wider attention
among farmers far and wide.
I don't
Lloyd -
The Albrecht soil tests of what I found to be rather savorabley
imbalanced soil I distributed last week were done on soils that have
been heavily amended by Luebke-formula compost made under the
guidance of Mr George Leiding of Imants. George, I believe, was a
domestic in the Luebke
But don't look for more studies as the magic
elixir that will make a difference; go get all the
studies and concepts that already exist and
you will have a powerful statement, as is.
Steve - Without the studies, everything you mention can be brushed
off as advertising. My request doesn't come out
My paper on Luebke compost has all the details
on humus testing methods used by the European
farmers. But you have to click on Google cache to
get it.
Sorry, Steve - Can you give better directions on how to locate this?
Thanks _Allan
I know its not BD but it seems to be what you mention, Allan.
Christy
Thanks for your efforts, Christy, however redundant.'-}
I'm not just looking for BD documentation. Studies like this, in
which unexpected benefits are demonstrated, are exactly what I'm
looking for. There are so many ways
Now you got a Powerful picture.
Now you're talking!
Anything new from Worthington? Sorry, but I found her studies from a
few years back to be rather insignificant. She once advised me to do
animal studies if I wanted to prove the superiority of organic food.
And then she recommended that the
Looks like Google quit indexing my home page,
since it is no longer publically-accessible.
Apparently it made an impact or two, when it did
exist.
Rhizosphere II - Incredible Web page by Steve Diver - worth
while visiting if you are interested in organic farming
Nobody mentioned taste yet!
Allan - if you had some samples of supermarket produce alongside yours, and
the taste was chalk and cheese (in favour of yours of course) how many of
your customers would then complain about the price?
Right you are, of course, but, actually, Lloyd, the tongue that is
Steve (everyone!)
What are you paying for your Suma product? Do you get it locally, or
do you have freight charges also? _Allan
I pay about $450-500 per ton, we usually split up a trailer
Do you bring it in direct or do you have a middle man in that area?
Can you recommend a source? Are you quoting delivered prices? -Allan
Ed - Got more info on that VA Basalt? There is also supposedly a
paramagnetic basalt dust source near Dulles Airport, but I've never
located it/ (Anyone?) -Allan
Which reminds me: how paramagnetic is Suma?
When I logged on to a friend's computer it didn't
work; it seems the RSS program has an embedded
link pointing to a file on my C:/drive.
Thanks, Steve, for the best laugh I've had all day! ;-)
What a great example of the limitation of bench testing with
mentation and the inestimable value of
ME Too It is still our busy season here down under and there are too many
off subjects . I am close to leaving this list myself.
Regards Tony R
Hey, Tony, help me here. I don't really understand your objection to
posts that you consider off topic. is it the bit weight of messages
that you
Information of Scientific Interest, from James DeMeo, Ph.D., and the
Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Greensprings Center, Ashland, Oregon.
This is the infrequent version of our OBRL-Newsletter (~quarterly).
March 2003
Five topical notices below:
1. Greensprings Interdisciplinary
was just expreesing an opinion why so many people are leaving
this list because at times their is not enough interesting BD discussion
..
I am trying to be pro active.
Regards
I think your opinion that 'so many people' are leaving the list is
erroneous. I mentioned that two people had left
I dont expect the traditionalists on the list to go into raptures over this
but I believe that we need to know if these things can work. It could be
useful to use some radionically prepared prep water in any making of BD
preps -
Lloyd - What I'd like to see is chromas comparing crops (carrots, for
Rupert Sheldrake is a scientist who has been mapping the Universal
Mind through simple, common sense expriments for the past 20 years.
There are many ramifications of Sheldrake's work for biodynamic
practitioners. Probably of most import aspect is his work with
documenting the power of INTENTION.
but why not use the radionics to
add some extra? I think Steve Storch is doing stuff like this now - maybe
not radionically.
I don't think that Steve is working radionically. As far as I know,
Steve makes every effort to grow his crops within the realm of the
living.
As far as the chromas go,
Please read this whole thing. There are some valueable suggestions contained.
What passes for political discussion on this list has its genesis in
how we are lied to about our food supply in the US and how that
affects the world. Recent events have broadened this discussion, but,
as long as we
Hi friends, getting back to biodynamics, I came across this
wonderful passage in a lecture series by Rudolf Steiner called
Manifestations of Karma (May 18, 1920, Hamburg). I found that it
created some vivid imagry in my mind that helped me to understand
plants better. After reading this, I
He is not really our president. He is the puppet of the new world order and
know that he does have a gun to his head, remember JFK and his plans to end
the war in VietNam. This bs has been going on since the Civil War, a war
fought not over slavery but the Northern English against the Irish and
I have two newly constructed stirring machines available capable of stirring
eighty gallons, hydraulically driven[no electric]- can be run off a tractor,
manually change direction, your intent must be there. $5000 US FOB
freight...sstorch
Your intent is well manifest when you ante up to the
Thanks so much for this, Jane. Bob is one of my personal heroes. A
truly great man, one whom a grower cannot meet without becoming
changed. I know others on this list have had equally strong
experiences in his presence.
Of course, I have about 3 hours of Bob Cannard audio I'd like to
publish
Thanks again, Jane. We lost several members of BD Now! last week due
to your persistent efforts to support the illusion of 'conspiracies.'
(They unsubscribed)
Is it just me or is Bush and his cronies tearing a very large hole in
the fabric of the Matrix? It seems to me that EVERYONE is seeing
Yesterday I flushed a beautiful robin in hoophouse number 1. She
appeared to be looking for worms and had not touched any of the
beautiful brassica sprouts boiling from the beds.
This is the first robin I've seen this year. As you are probably
aware, the Mid-Atlantic is still knee deep in
why, what was the problem ??
Gideon.
Sending mail with attachments after I asked him to fix the problem.
If he corrects that technical difficulty, I will re-sub him. -Allan
Thanks, Mark. -Allan
Anyone with answers for TJH please sent them to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], I've removed 'him' from BD Now! -Allan
It seems that our Feathered Friends really enjoy our crops. We have put
reflector tape out, which only seems to work a few days.
Does anyone have any workable solutions; physical, energetic
Welcome back to BD Now!
Please adjust your mailer so that you are not sending attachments to this list.
Also, please sign your posts.
Thanks
-Allan Balliett
Blood Money
The first step towards the establishment of this Pax
Americana is, and has always been, the removal of
Saddam Hussein and the establishment of an American
protectorate in Iraq.
By William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective
Thursday 27 February 2003
In the counsels of
Also, Allan-your country helped finance Saddam before he was in power,
helped him get into power and supported his regime during the 1980's against
Iran. Michael
Michael - When did Saddam stop working for the US government?
Not exactly sure, but there is a rumor that it was hours before he invaded
Kuwait!! An item on last night's news was rather interesting. 3 biggest
buyers of Iraqi oil in decreasing order: US, GB, France.
M.
Michael - When did Saddam stop working for the US government?
That's the stuff I don't
Mark -
Have Mr Purdy's theories been debunked or are they just being
ignored? Purdy's insights put this whole thing in a different arena.
What about those hunters who died of a similar disease? True story?
The report I posted sounded pretty strange!!!
-Allan
James - My remarks were driven by a re-reading of the MATRIX post and
the FRUIT LOOPS piece (anyone read that one?). My question was
essentially: how pervasive is the corporate Matrix. You've given me
the answer for Australia, one which I should have anticipated, of
course.
It's interesting.
You folks in Australia and New Zealand will not want to miss Graeme
Sait and Nutri-Tech's awesome late March/Early April eductional tour.
Gary Zimmer, one of the US' foremost biological farming teachers, and
Jerry Brunetti, Americas foremost 'health of the soil = the health of
the herd (and
Wasn't there supposed to be an investigation?
At one time it was supposed to be headed by Henry Kissinger, a man
who many currently are pushing to indict for war crimes in the 70's
and the likelihood of that actually happening keeping the US from
joining the itnernational war crimes treaties.
RK -
Excellent choice of a post, but, MAN, please don't ever post an
attachment to BD Now! again. If you've copying from a webpage, You
need to copy the text to an editor, format as necessary for email,
and then send it to the list.
-OR- just give the url.
I do appreciate that you got this
Dan Rather has interviewed Saddam. Of course, even the network admits
that their tape was reworked for more than a day to 'make certain
that Saddham was translated correctly' My impression of what I read
in the paper was that Saddham was going to stand his ground in the
face of W's demands
from RKM
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Hi Allan,
Thanks, I really like this poem. What is RKM's list?
Christy
Contact info below. List sub info at the bottom.
I met RKM through Whole Earth Review where he published a watershed
article on THE MATRIX, the matrix being the media-created world our
brains swim in. He was masterful in
Thanks, Alberto. Mark Purdey spoke with Will Winter at the
Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference Oct 3-5 this past
year right here in Virginia, USA. He has also been a 'guest speaker'
on BD Now! on a couple of occasions.
I find the article of great interest, aside from what
re: globalization from rkm's list:
Why We Are Here
(London, 2003 and Seattle)
-- Robert Arthur Lewis
Because the world we imagined, the one
we had always counted on
is disappearing.
Because the sun has become cancerous
and the planet is getting hotter.
José Bové
A French farmer who dismantled a McDonald's
Florence Williams / Outside in Utne Reader 12jan01
The accused threads his way up the steps of the stone Palais de
Justice in the ancient French city of Montpellier. He has receding
sandy hair and a comically long walrus mustache, wears a
A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM
We city folk often generate interesting ideas, like this found in
Websterâs Third: Farmer, 4A. An ignorant rustic: Yokel, Bumpkin;
4B. Clumsy, Stupid Fellow: Dolt. Given that we have about as much
ability to feed ourselves as do newborn babes, a
From today's Washington Post:
'Mad Cow Disease' Deemed Unlikely In Deaths of Game-Eating Hunters
Hunters who feasted on their prey at a cabin in northern Wisconsin --
and later died of brain diseases -- probably did not contract mad
cow disease from their meaty banquets, U.S. health officials
Can anyone fill us in on this past weekend's events?
Thanks
-Allan
I had 13
I had 13
must be hit by the SS virus
Last winter I brought in 150 Guinea chicks for tick control at Blue
Ridge. I lost 20 to an unknown predator in the brooder. By Early
August there were only 6 left.
The guineas had a very strange habit of forming in a flock about 20
ft away from a dog
Martha - By 'flyer' I assume you mean 'seed list'? Al Kapuler is a
plant breeder, but not a marketer. Like you, it's a bare-bones world
I'm not particularly comfortable with. If you need more information
on plants, write and ask him. At $2.50 a packet, I'm going to buy a
few and grow them out.
Martha - Sometimes it is not productive to fill in the blanks without
checking the facts. Besides the outright expense of organic grains at
this point in time, your organic feeds are more expensive because
they are (if milled by a reputable source) more nutritionally dense
than your commercial
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