Turtle Bend wrote:
Gil,
with Huge respect for your education, dedication and clarity of writing.
i think your codification is illusionary.
There is ever widening evidence it is a user friendly universe and
reality is what choices you make.
The structure and usage is yours for the deciding.
Garuda/ James,
The small adverts in Acres USA has carried reference to these for several
years. The seller is a dealer of used instruments and would seem to either
have a large supply or an unsaleable stock.
Gil
Garuda wrote:
James
It was not I that said they
Hi! Keith,
I can't help you.
Most viruses are aimed at Microsoft Explorer. Those of us who use
Netscape rarely have any experience, so can not help.
I suggest you dump as much Microsoft software as possible and load
Netscape and non Bill Gates Software and you may find you have little
Hi! Tobias and Greg,
Tobias, I feel you are coming on a bit strong with Greg.
There is the need for people at several levels in the world of BD and related
areas.
While I am happy to be an isolated person experimenting on my own and doing
a bit of research and only use my knowledge to grow a
Hi!
Are you offering these by mail order for us to broadcast on our own land?
If so How much? I am interested in rats, rabbits and roaches, if they will
work on those in my part of Oz.
Could I have a full list and prices, please? Off line if you prefer.
Gil
Port Lincoln
Gil Robertson wrote:
Hi!
Are you offering these by mail order for us to broadcast on our own land?
If so How much? I am interested in rats, rabbits and roaches, if they will
work on those in my part of Oz.
Could I have a full list and prices, please? Off
Programs. They want them in long
ropes for easy planting.
Thank you for replying to my email.
Gil Robertson
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Well said Hamish.
I too think we should celebrate our variations within the theme, rather than
seeking to prove my guru is a better guru than your guru.
There can be no doubt that the best food available, is that grown Biodynamically.
Should it not be our task to do that which we are able,
Hi! Tony,
We have farmers with a very high calcium soil and a pH of up to 9.8!!!
So high that plants can be short on available calcium in a sea of the
stuff!!
Gil
Tony Nelson-Smith wrote:
Gil wrote:
Have you checked the level of calcium in the affected plants.
Thanks, Gil. We are on
Hi! Roger,
Interesting.
May I ask why superphosphate was applied to the reveg, assuming it is
native veg, as most do not handle super at all well.
My guess is that the BD area will handle the super better than the other
areas, thus giving the impression it was to right thing to include.
Is
My understanding is that Homoeopathic Preps are excluded. Would it be
that Preps made using Rae Cards, be also excluded?
Gil
Tony Nelson-Smith wrote:
Folks - I don't know about the illegality of making the preps but I
suppose it has been technically illegal to use them, at least in the
UK,
Hugh Lovel wrote: And as for making the task of the farmer less
rewarding, pasteurization wasone of the big control mechanisms to lock
him in to depending on and getting screwed by the middle men. Is there
any doubt of this?
Non what so ever.
Gil
Hi! Tony,
It work well. If using tyres, cut the walls out. This is easily done
with a very sharp knife. The secret is to keep wetting the blade and to
stretch the cut apart as it is made. If you look at the tyre, you will
find the tread is added on top of the rest of the structure, the edge of
In Scotland there is one type of sheep that lives on the coast and are actually
kept there by stone walls. Their main diet is fresh seaweed. I have seen
film of them actually swimming in rough seas to eat the living seaweed.
Gil
The Korrows wrote:
How does salt fit in to this? Salt for
Charles and the list,
I am interested in the possibility of trialing a number of clays.
If I am using a clay, I would tend to go for either bentonite, or a commercially
prepared pottery clay, simply because as a one time potter, I have prepared
all the clay I want to do for the
Charles and the list,
I am interested in the possibility of trialing a number of clays.
If I am using a clay, I would tend to go for either bentonite, or a commercially
prepared pottery clay, simply because as a one time potter, I have prepared
all the clay I want to do for the time and as a
Hi! Lloyd, Hugh, James and the list.
I am puzzled at the suggestion of advertising. Advertising is like
evangelism in religion. Only those who have something they do not
believe in, need to convince others about it. Just as the person who is
content with his belief structure, rarely feels the
Dear Hugh. Lloyd and James.
On the information circulating in Radionic Circles, the figure of some
where around the area of ten idyll instruments for every one in use,
would be close to the mark. One of the reasons for this is that Radionic
Instruments are very specialized beasties. There is
You can easily too "organic" and not hold nutriants or moisture. A small
amount of clay may help.
Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
send me your "albrecht" soil testsand quite a bit of interesting
talk can be had, but the report can not tell you much about soil stucture.
Thanks Peter for the great post.
Could I ask the area you covered with the seven ton of sand? Is it still
working? I ask this because a site in the Adelaide hills that had
Kites protecting it from rabbits, is still rabbit rabbit free twenty
years after a bush fire took the fences and the
Hi! James and Lloyd,
I am out of action at the moment with health probs. But picked up on
your post concerning Copen's Agricultural methods.
Did you start with the rates in his Ag Rate Book?
I was going to buy it several years ago, but now they seem to have
with-drawn it from all their sites.
In Oz we catch all the rain water off our roofs we can. Peafowl roosting
on the ridge may look great, but not good for the drinking water. Have
you seen the damage they can do the paintwork on a new car if they catch
sight of themselves?
Gil
Tony Nelson-Smith wrote:
As for noise, try
Hi! Doug, Jane Allan,
Sorry, but I am with Doug, although not necessarily of the same
political outlook. (I do not know what his interests are!)
I have been ill for a few days and went to the farm to get away from
things and was thus computer free. I came back to the normal stack of
emails and
Allan Balliett wrote:
Drown us in content and keep the archives interesting for the next guy.
I can't imagine anyone getting this far in the archive..
While we are on urban myths and unlikely stories..
I always enjoyed the one about the winery worker who was carried home
dead by his work mates to the yet to be informed widow. The foreman
solemnly told her how her husband died in a huge barrel of port. She
inquired: Did he suffer much? No
Allan, James and the list.
Continuing Allan's question on the difference between News in
Australia and other countries.
I am trained in writing for the Media and for the past three years
worked as a media analyst, after decades of producing a wide range copy
for print, radio and TV. Thus I can
Sorry, you may well be right. I heard it as part of an item on our
involvement, but could easily be wrong.
Gil
Roger Pye wrote:
Gil Robertson wrote:
Our forces are on what our diminutive Prime Minister calls forward
deployment. They left our shores some weeks ago and are in the area
Point taken, but our media will also carry other views. When I
submitted a letter to the editor to all the major papers, in which I
called on the Prime minister and Cabinet to show solidarity with the
service personnel they were sending off to war, by having the same
immunizations, in public.
Jane Sherry wrote:
Sorry, Pat, you'll have a hard time convincing me that a supplement is
better for me than whole food.
Jane
Every one to their own. I would prefer to take a couple of fish oil
capsules, than eat the whole shark that was killed for it's liver.
Gil
Chickens must have a supply of grit in their cop to grind food up, or
they can not handle grains and the like. They should always have access
to a supply of coarse sand, river gravel fines or shell grit. This can
be in a container in a dry and poo free part of their house.
Gil
[EMAIL
Hi!
If folk would like to discuss the technical side of designing and
building the electronics to make an Interrupter of like device. I am
prepared to help. I think it should be off list as it would be outside
most people's area of interest. To be able to do this, one will need to
be able to
Hi! Steve and Merla,
I cant have enough to do to day, as I have worked out the cover of 14
yards of material.
4 would cover 50 ' by 22 '
3 50' by 30 '
2 50 ' by 45 '
Gil
Steve Diver wrote:
When you spread a 14 cu. yd dump truck
load, it covers so many
Hi! Jane/ Deborah
With large, high voltage, transmission lines, much of the energy actual
travels outside the conductor. This is why if you get too close, it will
arc across and zap you. I can tell you of well earthed (grounded) humans
vaporizing when high voltage power has arc across several
By far the greater proportion of smoke detectors are the type with the
radioactive part. I understand that you need to get it in you lung to do
much harm. They are taken back by the resellers in Oz. One should not be
burning plastic, so they should not be a risk there. They should not go
in
Allan Balliett wrote: I'll just put this out here for comment: Alan York
and Will Brinton both
state that they have never seen or heard of claims of crops reliably
produced (this means year after year, something that excludes many
variables: repeatability) through the use of radionics, except by
My statement concerning the power lines in Hugh's published photo was to
refer to an image that I assume many on the list, if they are serious
about non chemical agriculture, would subscribe to Acres and be familiar
with that photo. The photo is related to Radionic Broadcast, not trees,
cattle
Hi! Nelson,
There are several things you need to know before anyone can help you.
There are more than 300 Amaranthus that are in cultivation, that have
been collected from the wild. In addition, there are others that have
been breed by selection, to suit particular needs.
A large number are
Hi! Henry,
Predators of any kind indicate a sick organism.
Rather than trying to get rid of the ants, look to how you can boost the
vitality of the desired crop. Is there changes of soil, different
history etc. that could account for differences between areas of the
property? Are all the
Sure I can, Tony and mostly do so.
It worries me that with a thousand hits a week, we attract so few to
join..
This list is highly indebted to a small number of experienced folk, who
also have the ability and willingness to share their accumulated
knowledge with those of us who are
Last Saturday we had 43C, coolest place in the state, did very little
apart from picking fruit early and drying it. Sunday low twenties and a
very welcome half inch of rain. Our friends in the Eastern States still
have terrible bush fires, 600 odd houses and five or six dead.
Gil
gideon cowen
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
Thank you Jane, Last time I dared to mention that I did not understand why, in
the face if Allan's stand on short emails, he allowed your seemingly endless,
non original postings, he threatened to unsub me. So this time he may do just
that.
I do not understand why you think that an interest in BD
was handling the promotion, I would pick pick some
gullible cleric and send the media with a copy of the graphic to ask him
it it was true he objected to your use of the image... [I would have a
cartoonist do the graphic, using the composition and putting the figures
in the same positions.]
Gil Robertson
Roger Pye wrote: I was crying. If I continued to be terrified I would be a
complete liability - and a physical wreck - before very long. I said Great
Spirit, please send help for me and for Robin, my family, our friends and our
city. Help came, instantly, initially in the presence of the four
Hi! Manfred,
My storage experience goes back to childhood in the Adelaide Hills, which is
snow free, but with many frosts.
The old folk stored root crops in cellars and dark sheds. They used old bath
tubs and large wooden boxes. They put down layers dry quartz sand from the bed
of a river and
Will Winter wrote: Dusting or feeding DE to animals is a great way to give
yourself (and other innocent victims) in the barn or stable LUNG CANCER. It is
just like inhaling tiny slivers of glass, e.g. SILICOSIS.
Good call, Will!
Gil
Roger Pye wrote:
we need your prayers tonight very badly
Hi! Roger,
What is the latest on the fires. We trust that the weather will be kinder
and the worst has passed.
My daughter, who lives in western Melbourne, phoned from the tram stop at
seven this morning on her way to work, to ask how
Unfortunately, this site is not available from Oz.
Anyone able to help with another address?
Gil
Allan Balliett wrote:
Great news!
One of my favorite biodynamic books has now been reprinted, Dr.
Hauschka's The Nature of Substance, and also (one I haven't
read) Nutrition (same author).
Hi!
I think the idea of a list of know sites for your broadcasters would be a
matter of interest to all of us, even those who may never visit your country.
We would be able to get some idea of the type of operations that had taken
them on board and the sort of country they are servicing.
But as
Hi! Jeff,
Do not take those comments personally. I think they are directed at
a few individuals, known to some on the list, but not the bulk of us. I
think it is aimed at a few who are doing the "my God is a better God than
yours" or "my god is the only God, therefore yours must be the devil"
Thank you Zoran,
I am upgrading at the moment and the new box has ten gigs so will have room,
if I am quick!
Gil
zoran wrote:
Also answers to King?
Gil
Allan Balliett wrote:
David - What is your real name? -Allan
Hi! Allan,
If you are to move to have the earlier archives expunged, I for one would like
to buy how ever many CDs are involved to obtain a full set of back posts, as I
have only been on for a while and only now found out how to access them. I would
really like to be able to look though them at
Could some one be kind enough to give step by step instruction for
accessing the archive? I have never made it.
Gil
Lloyd Charles wrote: My BDNOW (email) folder has over 2495 entries. I was
pretty sure the topic of trees as broadcasters has been addressed before
now, but I can't locate it in
Hi! Gary,
You make a very valid point.
It is fine for those of us who have been around a while to speak in some sort of
cryptic short hand, that only we understand, but what about the casual visitor
or those early on the path and wondering what it is all about. Good point and
one that should be
Hi! Allan,
Good Post.
My introduction to BD was AP with that well known TV special, all those years
ago. It still took years until I saw other people actually doing it and
eating their produce to make me want to make the move. It was then with their
help and encouragement that I set out to learn
Hi! Roger,
My father's family was descended from Irish Catholic stock and at a wedding
they could not wait to get the ring off the brides finger to spin it first
over her and then over to groom to see who many children of which sex, each
would parent. By this they determined how many would be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At that time I was raising some exotic finches
and other birds. I'd moved the cages to a row run shed behind the house,
and the following season, I was seeing strange weeds in the goat fields
next door.
It could be that the manure from the cages is altering to soil to
Hi! Christiane.
In the natural order of things, in countries like Oz, nettles grow on land,
over manured by sheep, cows, horses etc, not native animals. They tend to grow
around sheep yards and the drains of milking sheds etc. They are deep rooted
and bring useful minerals from the lower levels
Hi! Merla,
Good Post. Most important.
A group in Oz is doing some good work, they travel and actually set up
locally based Seed Banks and teach the locals to save and maintain their own
seed. Where needed, additional types of vegetables and fruit are made
available from other seed banks. In Oz we
There are a number of Seedsaver Groups in North America, but I do not know of any
doing the volunteer work in developing countries, as our folk are doing. They work
closely with the Permaculture movement and many people are involved in both groups.
We are also teaching Permaculture in a lot of
Happy Christmas, Allan and the List.
With respect, as 2003 dawns, is it time to have a parallel List that
caters for those with the capability to handle graphics and attachments?
I am about to install the replacement for the three year old (to me)
computer, which cost a hundred Oz dollars = half
Hi! Flylo,
Thank you
Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you're interested in this (unusual) topic, run a search in google.
Hi! Roger,
Great post, as all ways,
Have a good one!
Gil
Roger Pye wrote:
Allan Balliett wrote:
Hi! Flylo,
Most life forms prefer a near neutral conditions, thus either side of pH 7
suits many more than 5 or 9. The common preservatives move the pH, such as
putting fish or vegetables in vinegar. Sugar and honey in jam etc, provides an
environment that bacteria etc did not like. Salt is used
Hi! Tony, Are you offering instructions on making the brew?
Tony Nelson-Smith wrote: Even better, you could make nettle beer (in which the
nettles mainly provide the flavour); SNIP even better, the wife disappeared
after a while and was found passed out on the bathroom carpet. It was then
Monsanto have gone too far and now they are in financial trouble.
Have a look at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/2589789.stm
Gil
Hi! Tony,
I have little Walnut experience as an adult as I live out side the range they
do.
I came from a wet, cold area, which was good for growing them, but not good for
grafting them, as they bleed as you have found.
I have been told that the most successful nursery was in a very windy gully
Allan Balliett wrote:
Even if you don't give a hoot for canola or soy as foods - - and,
properly handled, soy is an excellent food for humans - - please open
your heart to the harm that organic farmers are experiencing through
Monsanto's carelessness and their power.
Sorry Allan, but if you do
Hi! Tobias.
There are a number of different earwigs. I think the problem one is
an import.
They have a very interesting habit that makes then suited to low technology
trapping. They are largely nocturnal and like to rest in a cool dark place
during the heat of the day, as now.
They like to go
Hi! Per Garp
I can understand you being lost. We all started there.
Radionics is a particular area of study, within the much larger field of
Energetic Healing.
Energetic Healing includes Reiki, Reflexology, Accupressure, Aromatherapy,
Dowsing, Flower Essences, Gem Essences, Homoeopathy, Tissue
Hi! Per Garp/NH,
Has it occurred that you may not have a suitable site for what you want to
do?
By this I mean would it be better to obtain a more suited site?
If you are stuck with the site:-
Hard pan usually means several things are involved. Clay, not enough soil
carbon, reduced soil biota
a single copy for
our own use.
Gil
Gil Robertson
P.O. Box 51
Port Lincoln SA
Australia 5606
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Mark Moodie wrote:
I would be interested to hear if there is interest in an English Translation
of 'Working with the Elementals' which details Hugo Erbe's work.
It's allright, Allan, we know all about Freudian slips.
Gil
Allan Balliett wrote:
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
Allan Balliett wrote:
I shed the most tears for the pounds of cabbage loopers that cycle
unharvested through my brassicas each year. I've never eaten one, not
even the ocassional one that floats on top of the broccoli steaming
water.
Hi! Allan,
I assume the cabbage loopers are the grub of
Nancy Geffken wrote:
(Dumb question hour.) Can the preps freeze and retain their forces? I've read not -
but you can freeze seeds with no loss of vitality. What is the difference?
If you wos freezed, wot would your vitality be like.
Preps are active life forces = vibrations.
Seeds are
Hi! Flylo,
Traditional Aboriginals cook in the ashes. Most wood in Oz is hardwood
and much of it burns with great heat, when compared with softwoods. The
Traditional cooking fire is very small and produces a surround of asks,
which maintain the heat. When cooking pieces of meat or small animals,
Hi! Matha,
Welcome back. Hope you aree now very well and able to take an active part
in the activities on this site.
Gil,
Port Lincoln
Australia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought I'd just come back to lurk n learn. But alas, I have to let
ya'll know I'm back.
Allan, who is playing Mr Grumpy, to day?
What could be more to the point for a BD List? We have acres of reposted
material from other non related lists on political/ social/ conspiracy
etc, to wade through and find the odd bit to do with BD/ Organics. When
some one posts a notice on one of the
Hugh and Lloyd,
Regards to both of you.
I am way behind with my emails, thus the long over due reply.
James, could I save you a lot of time, in regard to trying to measure Radionic
Instruments, using electrical/ electronic type parameters. The Radio part of
Radionics, is an early misconception
sstorch,
I find this most interesting.
It is likely that your large terra cotta urn is working as a Paramagnetic
Resonator. It may be that it functions, firstly as an antenna to collect the
desired energies, then as a resonator to contain and magnify them.
I think you have Steiner super
. I can dream, but putting things
into practice is much, much harder.
Best,
Merla
Gil Robertson wrote:
Hugh and Lloyd,
Regards to both of you.
I am way behind with my emails, thus the long over due reply.
James, could I save you a lot of time, in regard to trying to measure
Please tell us more about the use by humans of the Preps,
Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 11/25/02 2:22:05 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A gallon would go a long way since you add just a small amount to regular
water to use. A number of on-line alternative herb/ag stores
Answer, eradicate animal protectionists and bring back the fur trade.
Leigh Hauter wrote:
Allan wrote-
I'd love to find a cure for foxes!
The answer -a Great Pyrenees
Hi! Leigh,
Thank you for your post. I find it revolting.
I am involved in the third force in Australian politics.
I have approached my State and Federal contacts and asked that they move to
prevent this ever happening here.
I ask that others on the list in Oz and NZ, each also approach their
Jack Wendell wrote: But my biggest concern is putting the wrong preps in at
the wrong times for what is needed out there!?!?!?
Hi! Jack,
Congratulations on working on such a large scale, with what must be quite an
investment.
As for timing. Have you read both of Hugh Lovel's books? He lays it
Michelle Wendell wrote: My husband is going on what I call his walkabout on
Nov 30, and coming to look at your country.
Hi! Michelle,
I am out side the sort of area you would be interested in looking at moving to,
but I am happy to talk off line, if Jack wants some information.
On this list,
Hi! SStorch,
I always enjoy your posts, but particularly this one.
When does the book come out?
Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This evening as I sat in the field watching the Novenmber Sun sink below the
horizen I felt Winter coming on. It is like the air feels when you have been
warned of a
Do you have an email address for the Court, so those of us out of the US
can add our weight?
Gil
Oz
The Korrows wrote:
Dear Friends, below is a note
from our dear friend, and fellow organic farmer Jeff Poppen, also know
on Nashville public TV as the BareFoot Farmer, he has a beautiful 300 acre
You sound to be in a familiar position. I have a nearly finished house on the
farm and my land lord is trying to get me out. Also will hopefully have more
time when in the new house.
Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I feel one brewing. Thr construction of the house is
ending, I feel
mountains of
Roger Pye wrote:
Good, I could do with a spare mountain:) roger
Had a friend with a tee shirt with a suitable graphic and the wording, I 'm a
mountain man and I like mountain women.
I do not understand the concern about compost tea. A survey released this week
in Oz has found that something like 40% of women and 65% of men do not wash
their hands after using the toilet. I consider that any risk from foliar sprays
of compost tea pales into insignificance..
Gil
D S
Good point, Will
Gil
Jane Sherry wrote:
Well, Frank, it's clear you're putting words into my mouth and making
assumptions based upon your own arguments not mine. Mine is simple. I do
not trust government to determine what is safe for me to eat.
Snip
I am with you.
Gil
Hi! Roger,
I remember some one once saying that if you consider yourself as a good
communicator, try explaining to a South Sea Islander of the pre electronic
communication days, what it would to be like to stand in a recess in a
railway tunnel and have the Flying Scotsman come through at full
Hi! Lloyd
Yes please, I would be very interested to see them.
Gil
Lloyd Charles wrote:
- Original Message -
From: Roger Pye [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 5:29 PM
Subject: What is Magic?
technology we haven't used or don't understand,
Additionally, in some cases, Radionic Practitioners also broadcast to a buffer
of conventional properties around their client's for protection. This seems to
have worked in these situations.
Gil
Cheryl Kemp wrote:
Tony,
My hearing of the end of Foot and Mouth disease at the BD farm in
While in the UK, during the BSE and Foot and Mouth massacres, I was visiting
Organic and Radionic Consultants and was told that there had been no case of
either on an Organic Property. Both only occurred in chemical rich herds and
flocks.
Gil
Tony Nelson-Smith wrote:
The whole parasite
Allan Balliett wrote:
Hey, my OZ friends, do ostriches REALLY hide their heads in the sand?
If they do, how successful of a ploy it is?
Hi! Allan, It may be better to ask some one in Africa, where the birds
live in the wild. We used to have at least one feral population here, near
Port Augusta,
There is a problem with haveing your head in the sand. It tends to expose
other vulnerable parts.
D S Chamberlain wrote:
Hey, my OZ friends, do ostriches REALLY hide their heads in the sand?
If they do, how successful of a ploy it is?
-Allan
Allan: Sorry mate we have Emus not
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