Re: Mixing Politics with Agriculture

2002-04-28 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Good post Allan. I would like to add that the battle between good and bad or more accurately consciousness/freedom and control/oppression has been going on for eons, yet it is not either of these forces that dictate the direction of humanity but rather the masses that are too apathetic to act. Yes

Future of Agrarianism Conference

2002-04-25 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
  Press Release:  For Immediate AttentionFor More Information, contact Karen Armstrong-Cummingsor Patrick Rupinen, Commodity Growers CoopPhone: 859-233-7845 or 1-888-440-7845Mobile: 859-227-8631Email:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]620 S. Broadway, Suite 209Lexington, KY 40508 Future of Agrarianism Co

Re: controlling mosquito population

2002-04-21 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Hi Stacey, I don't thin efforts to contol them on just your property would be futile, but common sense says that the problems could lie in your neighborhood. Gil had some great ideas. I say go for the BAT BOX, or a couple. Someone else on this list probably knows how many mosquitos a bat will ea

Re: controlling mosquito population

2002-04-19 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
I didn't know that BT worked for mosquitos, I thought it was for catapillars? Unfortueately, many times there are no magic solutions, especially now that we have thrown the environment so out of balance.Controling the mosquito population on your land would most likely have to involve treating a mo

OFFFw: NEW VIDEO AVAILABLE

2002-04-18 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Received this today. Its free! Christy - Original Message - From: Laurel Hopwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:08 PM Subject: NEW VIDEO AVAILABLE > HEARTBREAK IN THE HEARTLAND: The True Cost of Genetically Engineered Crops > > In this 26 mi

Re: Delicious Citrus

2002-04-18 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
>>the face of the farmer is a large part of what spiritual food > > distribution should be about, in my humble opinion. -Allan Dear Christy, The farm is Ladybug Oak Grove located in central Florida in the midst of the citrus belt. The farmer is John Krohn. He was inspired by and is a neighbor

Re: Dandelions

2002-04-18 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Steve Storch writes>>Bullseyes are fat and juicy. Anybody else on the list practicing any biodyn??? >> Aren't they beautiful?? And to think that dandeions is the'poster weed' for Roundup. I am happy to have dried a gallon! Steve how do you do it?? Even when I walk through town, I spot bulleyes e

Re: Alex Podolinsky's THE BIG COUNTRY

2002-04-18 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
> This video will be part of "Gardening for the Future," a 6-week > series of films and discussions the will include programs on Alan > Chadwick, John Jeavons, Fukuoka, Mollison and a screening of LIFE IN > THE SOIL. I hope you can plan to attend. All programs at 7pm on > Thursday evenings i

Re: Morels

2002-04-17 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Around here (Kentucky)they are called Dry Land Fish. Locals say soak em in salt and fry em in oil. Personally, we treat them just as you would any other mushrooms, saute lightly in a little butter, and add to what ever type of dish. The flavor is delicate. Chris and the girls came back with only

Re: Delicious Citrus

2002-04-16 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
The face of the farmer is the wave of the future. When we know where our food comes from we develop a sense of place, a sense of caring and a moral responsibility to spend our money in a way that will support positive endeavors. Our food is not just an abstract substance from a laboratory/ farm, i

Re: Australia farms

2002-04-16 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Sorry everbody, should have been a private post, my mistake. - Original Message - From: Rural Center for Responsible Living <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: Re: Australia farms > Dear Cheryl, > > I wanted t

Re: Australia farms

2002-04-16 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Dear Cheryl, I wanted to let you know that I would like to use an excerpt from the post below in the biodynamic news section of Spiritual Science (formerly LILIPOH).Sounds like it was a great experience. I am working with Christine as the Biodynamic Editor of the magazine, so keep me in mind whe

Re: Delicious Citrus

2002-04-16 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Allan, Allan, you keep me so busy...I can find out. - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:43 PM Subject: Re: Delicious Citrus > >Now available while supplies last! > > > >Oranges and Ruby Red Grapefruits fro

LILIPOH Mag.

2002-03-22 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
BDNOW! readers might like to visit www.lilipoh.com and learn about LILIPOH, a great US based magazine that provides readers with an abundance  of highly practical articles that reflect the anthroposophical approach to health.   The health of childhood, the land, the body, soul and spirit ar

Re:Testing preps?

2002-03-20 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Testing of Pfieffer field spray and compost starter would be significant because of the potential scale for munincipal, or large scale use. Pfeiffer products are much more relative to bacterial innoculation. Meaning they are bred to be bacterial. But the preps we are not as concerned with the bac

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-12 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
The Organic Gardening encyclopedia say 30# per 1000 sq ft on sand to 80# per 1000 sq ft on clay will raise the ph one unit. Having put about 4 tons to the ac of quarry siftings about 9 years ago I would say that their unit would be a raise from lets say 6.1 to 6.2. I would be a little more concern

Future of Agrarianism Transcripts

2002-03-11 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Here is the reply to my inquiry regarding transcripts for the Future of Agrarianism Conference- Christy     "You are not the first to make that suggestion. We do hope to publish the conference proceedings (revised and expanded) in book form down the road. As for tapes, we do plan to videotap

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-11 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
No mulching. I've done both and find that loosening up the soil with cultivation to give better results. Chris > >It's a little bit of work but less than mulching by hand. > >I dig a shallow trench with a potato plow, then put abut 11/2" of well aged > >compost in the trench and lay the seed o

Re: Planting Spuds - How do you do it?

2002-03-11 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
It's a little bit of work but less than mulching by hand. I dig a shallow trench with a potato plow, then put abut 11/2" of well aged compost in the trench and lay the seed on top of that. Then I cover them up with a cultivator. I think they respond well to the slightly more acidic nature of the

Re: Official BD in Brazil

2002-03-10 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Dear Merla, Isn't there a whole community helping you with this project? Would you be spraying from a truck? National Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, 541-344-5044 (NCAP) in Oregon would be an excellent resource to refer you to already existing naturally managed roadside projects. What

Re: Off: Mandated vaccinations coming

2002-03-08 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Dear Jennifer,   I have never vaccinated my children, and I have been yelled at and threatened to be reported to social services by a doctor, plus treated very badly on many occasions at our local health department. Now in Kentucky we are blessed to have an MD who is also a homepathic/ anthro

Re: Recordings of Will Brinton on the Value of Compost and SallyFallon on the Dangers of the Food Processing Industry

2002-03-08 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Hi Allan, Well it looks like I might not be too much help after all. Win doesn't know of any where to upload/host the sound files for no charge. The web hosting service he uses is www.pageweb.com Don does host large sites and he seems affordable. I was a little confused about the 100$ set up th

Re: Dowsing and Intuition

2002-03-08 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
- Original Message - From: Aurora Farm > Dear Ones: > > I'd like to see some discussion about others' experience of intuition. >> Hi Woody, In general my intuition comes in three ways. One is by the grace of God. My descisions to move to Kentucky, becoming involved in farming and all of

Re: Official BD in Brazil

2002-03-08 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Dear Bonnie, Rudolf Steiner made it very clear in the lectures to farmers that the preparations were meant to enhance a sound animal based compost fertility management program. A production oriented farm would be more biodynamic to incorporate livestock for soil building and not use preparation

spring gardening classes

2002-03-03 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
and vegetable transplants to take home for your garden Soil amendments such as; rock phosphate, seaweed powder, and biodynamic preparations Vegetarian meal made from organic and biodynamic foods, most of which are grown at Dogwood Spring Farm   Classes presented by Rural Center for Responsible

spring gardening class!

2002-03-03 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
and vegetable transplants to take home for your garden Soil amendments such as; rock phosphate, seaweed powder, and biodynamic preparations Vegetarian meal made from organic and biodynamic foods, most of which are grown at Dogwood Spring Farm   Classes presented by Rural Center for Responsible

Re: Copper garden tools

2002-03-02 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
The correct adress is www.kupferspuren.at   Christy   - Original Message - From: Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 02, 2002 2:12 PM Subject: Re: Copper garden tools This site does not work anymore for some reason.   Jose

Re: Be There! Fwd: The Unsettling of America 25 Years Later

2002-03-02 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Hi Allan, I will be attending this. It is the most progressive sustainable speakers line up I have seen in KY. - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 9:27 PM Subject: Be There! Fwd: The Unsettling of America 2

Re: future of the bd remedies

2002-02-23 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Hi Glen, I wish there was mention of this at the meeting, but I don't recall the subject coming up. Christy - Original Message - From: Glen Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2002 7:05 PM Subject: Re: future of the bd remedies > [EMAIL PROT

Re: Making Barrel Compost

2002-02-23 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
I know we and Jeff Poppen stir in the eggshells and basalt for one hour, on a big rock or piece of wood siding. Turning the manure shovel by shovel for the hour. Its rather a thorough mixing.Christy - Original Message - From: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: future of the bd remedies

2002-02-23 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
There was a preliminary meeting for the Agriculture Section members followed by a Friday, Saturday, Sun. morn meeting for all prep makers. The letter I received mentioned at the bottom to pass the word along to any prep makers who might have gotten left off of the list.So this was not a private me

Re: Fwd: Re: Radionics (Drought update)

2002-02-17 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
It was written, > So why not use Radionic Devices and do it from the comfort of the office? This is what worries (for lack of a better way of putting it) the more "archaic folk". Why not put your love for your kids in a radionic device and do so from the comfort of the office? It seems to me th

Re: Future of the Preps Conference

2002-02-07 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
these folks are counting on the availability of quality preparations, and their thoughts and feelings are relavent, because they are part of the Work also.C. - Original Message - From: Rural Center for Responsible Living <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday,

Re: Future of the Preps Conference

2002-02-07 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
Hi Allan, The meeting in Copake was organized by the US Agricultural Section of the School of Spiritual Science. The meeting is for any one making preparations, and from what I could gather from the Biodynamics Journal, " While the ideal would be that all biodynamic practitioners make their own h

Kentucky organics

2002-01-14 Thread Rural Center for Responsible Living
For Immediate Release!   Rural Center for Responsible Living is a Kentucky farm based non profit organization working to promote organic food, farming, and gardening . Founded by two organic farmers, The Rural Center teaches hands on growing methods and provides information and resources