Martha -
I looked at this book when it first came out. My recollection is that
the title of this book is an appropriation of the term 'biodynamics,'
Fortunately, according to Amazon.com, this book is out of print.
The following user review appeard at the Amazon site:
This book is not about bio
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
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:
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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
They have the rights, but are things actually progressing with the
translation? Maybe Shaumburg would like some one to assist in the process?
Christy
easy enough to check out: Shaumburg Tel/Fax (708) 351-2444.
-Allan
I've been advised that the rights to the English version of this work
are owned by Schaumburg Publications in Schaumburg, Illinois, Tel/Fax
(708) 351-2444.
It would be inappropriate, I understand, to introduce another
commercial English translation under these circumstances.
It's essential tha
My only information on biodynamic gardening is from the Jeavons
books. Anything else I should be reading?
Rose
Rose - Emphatically, Jeavons is NOT biodynamic. Biodynamics is a
spiritual approach to farming Jeavons was exposed to biodynamics from
Chadwick, who claimed to have studied directly
Rose - You can read the Berry "Agrarian" article at
http://www.oriononline.org/pages/om/02-3om/Berry.html
It came from the Orion Society homepage
-Allan
Instead, try and get national & local non profits involved in your csa's to
sponsor share prices for low income members, such as Roxbury Farm did this
year, through the United Way, sponsoring some membership in Harlem.
Got any more info on this, Jane? Are there any write-ups?
This is brilliant,
Mark -
I'm certainly interested in a copy for myself.
You can contact Hugh Courtney at [EMAIL PROTECTED] to get an
order from JPI. Hugh's very into the elemental stuff and, as you
know, there are very few good books out.
-Allan
PS Yes, I'd be happy buying my copy from JPI
\Much the same is happenign with organic now. Who knows where it
will lead...???
\\
Well, we know where it will lead if left to it's own dynamics. In
the herb business, the biggest problem is that consumers think price
only and do not make an attempt to work in the realm of quality. This
mean
This is a great motto...!!! What I should have said is I worry
about how long the general population can hold interest in anything!!
It's also interesting to know that herbalist Jim Duke refers to this
and the preceding year as 'the great herbal depression.' His point is
that less money is
Allan, when did you join Homesteader's Work group?
Ahh, come on, Martha, you know, wherever two or more are gathered..
Also nterested in what people have heard about the Disney cruises
that have resulted in much illness.
Right after 9/11 i heard that the Bush family was heavily invested in
the small pox vaccine. I don't doubt this is true.
Again, can anyone tell me more?
-Allan
Hi,
Depart of Defense is DOD. They handle the food supplied to public schools
as well as bombing other countries.
Pat
> Pat - What's a DOD contract? -Allan
Are you serious? When did this happen? I thought it was USDA or some
education department that handled school lunches. (Where have I
From the washington Post, Dec 5
Smallpox Vaccine Reactions Jolt Experts
From Rashes to Fevers, Array of Side Effects Is Uncommon Today
As physical specimens, the Baylor University students were fit and
healthy, the "crème de la crème," in the words of researcher Kathy
Edwards. Yet when she inocul
Alternatives JOURNAL
***Please circulate widely***
**Apologies for Cross Postings**
Call for Proposals
for a Special Issue on "Good Food"
We all know we should eat good food. But good food isn't just what's
recommended in the Canada Food Guide - good food isn't just healthy for
people, it is he
Pat - What's a DOD contract? -Allan
Fresh and Local!
Anyone have a FRESH AND LOCAL initiative in their area? (LOCAL HERO
is a similar program.) We've got an anti-development person pushing
to get grant money for a fresh and local program in this area.
Unfortunately, his plans are more for wholesale-from-the-local-farms
and retai
Thanks for your input, Martha.
It's a profound question: Why would anyone listen to Wendell Berry?
What does it matter what he says? Who does he think he is, an so on.
I think these thoughts every time I pick something up he has written.
Ineveitably, however, he resonates with what I know to be
Dear Friends -
For those who didn't catch the comment earlier, probably because it
was not explicit enough, this was a personal message, one that was
not intended for the list. One that got sent to the list by accident.
I thank those who offered assitance with my pediatory predicament. If
you
Allan,
I doubt seriously that plaster of paris is going to simply dissolve in
water once it is set.
Hugh
Oh, great, another problem.
I'm going buy how the plaster has crumbled where it has gotten wet
when I've drug my toes in the snow, and so on.
It'll really be great if I show up at the air
I spent many years moving trees professionally, also planting. I found
helpful for settling in new trees and also estblishing transplants this info.
A tree, even if grown from seed in Nature may not have its proper
orientation in the earth in regard to the group soul etheric and astral body
of th
Oh, well
Will - It will be 3 weeks mon since I broke my foot and 3 weeks Wed
since I put a cast on it. I'd VERY MUCH like to not have a cast at
ACRES, in fact, I can't imagine getting from my room to the hall on
fucking crutches. On the other hand, my Dr ain't going to go for
taking the cast off and I d
Friends -
Can anyone help me with contact info for Lee Don Bienski, a chemistry
professor and BD farmer in Texas?
Thank
-Allan
Hello, I am Doris Hern=E1ndez, from Bogot=E1 Colombia. I am interested =
in information about CD-Roms or Online Courses in Biodynamic Agriculture =
to use in our postdegree department of the University jorge Tadeo =
Lozano .
We will know about contained and prices.
Thanks a lot for you help.
FW: [globalnews] Vandana Shiva Speaks: Globalization, Mobilization and =
Spiritual ActivismJane,\
Curtis: thanks for your continuing judicious =
selection of posts. Vandana's/villagers' wordings are so succinct as to =
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corporate
Friends,
I guess it was Sally Fallon who first drew my attention to the sorrow
of unrequited wastefulness. Sally pointed out that the great Hindi
culture that everyone believes is strictly vegetarian actually gets a
substantial amount of animal protein from the weevils in their
grains. Later,
This is awesome, Ron! And so very gratifying!!
I can help you with Life in the Soil. JPI can help you with THE BIG COUNTRY.
People LOVE "THE BIG COUNTRY," so I recommend that you show it.
Somewhere I have the soil profile videos that AP was selling through
the USA BDA some time ago. They would
Thank you, Diana! You are the perfect reader that we do not want to
exclude in our carelessness!!
Remember, folks: trim all of your messages so that they will
communicate and not choke!!
-Allan
Any big emails are just very hard to download and can clog up your system.
book, GARDENING FOR THE FUTURE OF
THE EARTH, continues at the Blue Ridge Center in Purcellville, VA
(www.brces.org), Thursday evenings at 7pm. We're in the trailer again
this week. the program is presented by the Blue Ridge Center
internship program. Call or email Allan Balliett to reserve a chair:
Allan, as much as I dislike the Yahoogroups, (and I own/moderate
a couple of them), they do have a good section for Files and
Photos. Ithere any way members of BDNOW can post pictures, or
send notices without having to attach mail to email? I rarely will
even open attached mail anymore unless someo
I've been looking over the JPI website and can't find where to order
the calendar, nor the Stella Natura calendar I usually get. (I
normally just buy mine from Allan so maybe I haven't been paying
sufficient attention.)
The flip side of the 'keeping your agreements with your pocketbook'
thing i
Michael -
I appreciate you and I apologize for not being sensitive to your own
circumstances. It's very clear that I did misread where you were
coming from, but, regardless of that, the results would be the same.
I apologize to everyone for dragging out this discussion on the list
but I hope t
Jeez, maybe Gil is right
NO ATTACHMENTS TO THIS LIST, EVER!!
Thanks
-Allan Balliett
moderator
BD Now!
I am not sure that you are not just being personal...Would you
have started this campagne of Michael Roboz bashing if it was
somebody else?
Please don't be paranoid, Michael. My objections are not directed to
you as a person. My objections are directed at your actions and to
any actions that
ok thanks, then. But, if anybody from US wants to go through me and if BDA
and JPI don't object, let me know. It is not like I'll make much money on
it! Probably just a little more than break even! Cheers, M.
Thanks, Michael. I wish you well.
Let me say this one more time: JPI to a great degree
Well, thanks, Perry. This sort of information is greatly appreciated!
Thanks again -Allan
Does anyone have the time to attempt to convince Hugh to put the
out-of-print issues of Applied Biodynamics on-line where the world
can read them?
Original content is a sure way to draw people to your on-line bookstore.
While you're at it, dear person who has JPI's ear, would you tell the
staf
Dear Allan,
I have just found out from Sandra and Brian that JPI did not wish
to carry the Northern Star calendar this year. The BDA is carrying
it. Tri-fold in Ontario is carrying it, but, is buying it through
the BDA., with the BDA in the US as the middleman.
No need to call JPI then, All
Dear Allan,
I have just found out from Sandra and Brian that JPI did not wish
to carry the Northern Star calendar this year. The BDA is carrying
it. Tri-fold in Ontario is carrying it, but, is buying it through
the BDA., with the BDA in the US as the middleman.
No need to call JPI then, All
it a couple of times a week and
then remember the days and times preferred for tasks, if the other factors
like soil moisture allow.
Gil
Allan Balliett wrote:
Michael - Normally flat-out commercial announcements go through me
before they go to the list. Of course, this one is right on topic a
MIchael - JPI is not on-line. I will call them tomorrow and see what
the story is. I do not know for a fact that they have it this year,
but one would assume that they would. If JPI does not plan to carry
the Keats calendar this coming year, you can count me as a customer.
(What do you expect t
In the article it stated, "Now the corporate titan must play by the same
rules as the biodynamic farmer."
I can only say that I hope that Beth's statement is accurate. -Allan
Michael - Normally flat-out commercial announcements go through me
before they go to the list. Of course, this one is right on topic and
no harm has been done. I do want to make a few comments that I would
have made to you in private had you addressed this off-line initially.
As far as I know,
Source info below. In the meantime, how many of these have you read??
The Next Green Revolution: Essential Steps to a Healthy, Sustainable
Agriculture by James E. Horne and Maura McDermott, Food Products
Press, ISBN: 1560228865, 2002
* Agroecology; the Scientific Basis of Alternative Agriculture
Calling it "the largest source of untapped life left on Earth," the
UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has announced a new $26 million
project to understand and utilize the life forms underground.
Another example of Rome building a church on the site of one of our temples?
To learn about the soil
Drawn from Jane's recent post for emphasis AB
In the meantime, you, me, all of us, have to get together and come
up with a plan that gets this country back in our hands. I have a
few ideas. I'll bet you do, too. Why don't we have an online
brainstorming session from now through the holidays? I
In a message dated 11/29/02 8:31:36 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< maybe I'll get my deadened ass into gear and implement this
promise. >>
Great idea, bravo...sstorch
The slow down has been out of deference to Hugh Courtney's strong
support of the bio/anthro reader. I have been hesitant to u
By the way, what will you do with all the money? Are there BD farms
in the Caymans?
It's Funny, Nancy. Having been doing this so long, my needs for
financial support have been sort of a concise history of the
development of desktop technology. We've moved from needing more
diskettes, to beggin
Thanks to the many who have 'reminded' me about this again this year!
I've just re-installed the 'real' gardening for the future pages
whick include to linkthrough portal to
Amazon.com.(http://www.gardeningforthefuture.com)
I'm writing this to ask you that if you are doing Christmas shopping
Great! Let' make some time at ACRES for getting this conceptually organized!!
Thanks, Hugh, your openess is a glowing example to us all.
-Allan
Dear Allan, List,
Go guys! If the means exist I'm into the teaching.
Hugh
I just want everyone to know that about two hours after I made the
request to imagine my foot regaining wholeness, all pain left my foot
and an honest-to-god sense of well being entered it. This sense of
glowing wellness has remained through the night. The temptation to
throw down my crutche
Allan
What would be the technology required at the recieval end? I have a fairly
old computer - what minimum capacity (cpu, memory, and modem line speed)
would we need to do this - it sure sounds a good idea.
Lloyd Charles
Lloyd - Yes, two weeks on DSL and I'm getting arrogant!!
Streamng audio a
So Steve, I don't understand. If the preps are good medicine, why did
steiner tell us to eat traditional foods that were grown in soils and
atmospheres enlivened by the preps rather than to eat the preps
themselves?
Like most BD practitioners, I drink a gulp or so from every batch of
whatever
This is pie-in-the-sky for now, so don't let it disuade any Aussies
from attending Hugh's forthcoming lectures, but we should work to
figure out how to put Hugh and other popular BD lecturers on
Pay-for-View net broadcasts so that they can get the income and more
people can get the teachings. E
Come on Allan! Intent intent intent!
Lost me again, Jane. I accept the intention. I'm just not clear on
the proof, if there is one. -Allan
This article is from the Macon County Chronicle. See earlier post for
contact info for Jeff Poppen and info on how to buy his newest book.
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
Jeff Poppen
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) is the way we market about half
of our farm's produce. I still sell
Jeff's got a new book out. It's called "The Best of the Barefoot
Farmer." Find out more about it at http://www.barefootfarmer.com or
email him at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Biodynamics
Macon County Chronicle July 24, 2001
Biodynamics has an organic farming method, born in 1924, which
suggests that t
I've never understood: will the same word always evoke the same
crystal structure? If not, doesn't the idea that all crystals are
different sort of make this concept suspect?
Just asking!
-Allan
Thanks for the thought, Jane.
BD NOW! Posters: Even on crutches I cannot tolerate the posting of
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to me and I'll publish it for you.
Thanks!!
-Allan
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This will only work, of course, if you can
make some time to think me well.
Do you mind?
Gracias!!
-Allan Balliett
Shepherdstown, WV
Thanks for the attaboy, Nancy. You're a blessing in and of yourself!
I'm also grateful to everyone who takes the time to post and very
grateful to those who continue to share their expertise or their
opinions with the group.
I would really appreciate it if everyone who appreciates what I do
fo
A helpful woman at the Steiner bookstore in Spring Valley yesterday
said astrosophy is the marriage between contemporary astrology &
anthroposophy.
JS
Bless you, Jane, for keeping this conversation out in the light of
day. And bless everyone who feels that 'words are not enough.' -Allan
I hadn't even considered that I was depleting the soil
doing this. I guess that I struggle with that concept. Isn't this really
how nature's system works and nutrients get recycled?
Michelle - In nature's system the animal's carcass and all the
nutrients stockpiled therein also eventually ge
As Gil Scott-Heron said, in another time, another place, for a different
reason:
The revolution will not be televised.
The revolution will not be brought to you by Xerox
In 4 parts without commercial interruptions.
The revolution will not show you pictures of Nixon
blowin
Michelle: Green manure crops work best if turned back in with as much bulk
as possible. Feeding off to livestock is just not the same unless you
collect the manure and compost it and respread it. In fact by feeding it off
you are depleting your soil and unless you have high biological activity the
This essay was written as though the polls themselves were not
already contaminated. As though intelligent and charismatic liberal
politicians in this country have not been culled through assasination
or media-fueled scandals in this country since the Kennedy
assasination. (I mean, folks, do we
> What they usually have in their suitcases are a bunch of little koala
beers that have spring loaded arms that will let them grip pencils,
much to the delight of North American children.
-Allan
Thanks Allan - nice save
LCharles
Charles, I swear I meant to say 'bears' BEARS. It was not m
I am concerned with the aforementioned reference to "befuddled
overseas visitors with funny things in their suitcases".
Cain - For what it's worth, I always read the above as 'Aussies'
What they usually have in their suitcases are a bunch of little koala
beers that have spring loaded ar
At any rate this fall I could see the symptoms of disturbed orgone energy.
This manifests in these puffy small dirty grey clouds floating in a blue sky.
As I stared into the blue you could see large patches devoid of the orgone.
I pondered this and tried an experiment. I stood [by the cows] an
Which reminds me: What is Willard Water?
I've never given it much thought but learned the other day that
Salatin puts it in his chicken waterers. If you know, Joel, it must
really be something if HE is paying the price for it.
I saw some in the local Health Store. I think it was $9 for 3oz or
Am I coming down to talk about compost teas etc for this??? Are you coming to
Lancaster the 28-29 January for the viticulture workshop???
Steve - We do no have definite plans here yet, but I'm working on it.
People want tangible proof of the pudding before they commit land,
time to bd in this a
Thanks to Jeff on the CT list, here's the article that resulted from
the long interview with Elaine Ingham during the lunch at Blue Ridge
Center on Saturday at the BIODYNAMIC CONFERENCE this past October.
Note how the conference, the garden, etc, have been written out of
the story! Maybe Rodale
Looks like you've done a lot of good, hard work, Steve.
I'm not sure what you were saying about not having enough help for
spraying. Do you mean, aside from CT applications, spraying chemicals
for pests?
I'm very curious about the measureable results of your efforts. For
example, what do your
Forwarded from Will Winter
Having once beaten Thich Nhat Hanh in a fair fight, I later realized
that the loss was entirely my own. Once calling Thich Nhat Hanh 'a
coyote' in a public place, raising much outspoken ire in others, I
came to find out from one of his teachers years later that Thich
Steve -
Can you explain how bd is used at MACARI?
The impression that I get from the webpage is that is is used in
conjunction with conventional practices. I'm wondering if this is an
inaccurate impression. (?)
I'd like to hear more about what you are involved in there and how
they are involv
Speaking of paper trail, our certifiers are holding a two day work shop on
how to keep records under the NOP rule. Chris and I are still debating
wether or not we will re certify under the new rule. I wonder how many US
growers on BDNOW! are considering dropping organic certification?
Christy - I
After experimenting with several heirloom breeds, I've been most
satisfied with Rhode Island Reds or for the variety of bird that
passes for Rhode Island in this country currently.
Like Joel Salatin, I buy my feed from a local mill and augment it
liberally from the garden, the table, and the pr
Why don't you try reaching out to the pagan community, a more earth based
'religion' than the so called new age.
When I said 'New Age,' I was, carelessly or not, including Pagans.
I think it is important to remember that biodynamics is an evolved
discipline. For the most part, the current pagan
I would have thought
you'd get a group in Santa Fe easy - maybe the title scared them off?
Lloyd, Hugh, et al -
My impression is that the event was not publicized very well. I'm a
Bioneer associate and I receieved no direct mail or email on this
event. I imagine that the Bioneer people assumed
from Aubrey Organics
http://www.aubrey-organics.com/news/article.cfm?story_id=69
Into the 21st Century
Food Fight for the Future
(From Fall 1996)
by J.P. Harpignies
From millennia as gatherers and hunters, and later farmers, we have
recently evolved into a species in which very few people (at
Dear Allen and BD friends,
I think one can encourage all efforts to improve agriculture without our
feeling threatened, because BD has to offer what nothing else can. To
understand what that is one needs to be able to place Steiner correctly
within the spectrum of human knowledge. I have attempte
You've got to check this out!
It's like we've been dogpaddling in someone elses morphgenic wake for
the past two weeks!!
If this is not motivation to express outselves to the world, we just
as well give up and buy our mantras.
I find it interesting that in Ken Wilber's very catholic approach t
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OK, folks, schedule your programs, get your site ready, know who is
publicizing it for you, etc and then lets talk how we are going to
distribute/share videos.
Glad there is so much interest!!
Frank - It's my understanding that the compost vicki used was so poor
that it technically was not compost. It most definitely was not GOOD
COMPOST THAT HAD E-COLI, but it was drawn from uncomposted materials
at a commercial compost facility. Am I off base here?
If I'm making a point, the first
Love this idea, resume of sorts, as I am new to this I would like to
join the family ..
Thanks -Jane Parker
Maybe you could suggest a little format to get things started?
You are new here, Jane Parker! Create your own 'little format' and go for it.
There are 378 subscribers on the list right no
Just a sec. We already did that. The oregonbd.org site has our six
week intro course posted in its entirety -- and it's free. I tried
to include summaries of the various points of view, it's based on
experiences from a human-interface class, we are slowing adding
second-level material. Comments
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