Re: Pytrons

2003-07-24 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Ashoag, Don't worry to much about the weeds for the time. Get into a full BD cycle and after two or three years, most weeds will be on minor concern and at that stage you can make finer adjustments to the soil. The main thing is to get the soil biota firing, this will happen with the BD Pre

Re: radionics, voodoo, holy cards, and 3rd class relics

2003-07-15 Thread Gil Robertson
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. Ever

Re: radionics, voodoo, holy cards, and 3rd class relics

2003-07-14 Thread Gil Robertson
the practitioners mind and it's focus. Homoeopathics is a very physical methodology that collects and potentises the energy. Biodynamics is also a physical process of collecting and potentising energy, but different from Homoeopathics. With respect Gil Roger Pye wrote: Gil Ro

Re: radionics, voodoo, holy cards, and 3rd class relics

2003-07-14 Thread Gil Robertson
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 were

Re: ADMIN: Viruses

2003-07-11 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Allan and Keith, Nothing should come out of here as my set up should stop any viruses getting in, leave alone getting out. I also understood that Allan had the list set up in a safe manner. Gil Allan Balliett wrote: Keith - I didn't see any attachments to Gil's email on this end. __

Re: Viruses

2003-07-11 Thread Gil Robertson
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 difficult

Re: radionics, voodoo, holy cards, and 3rd class relics

2003-07-10 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Resonant Info and the List. While I would not like to put Radionics in the same basket as either Voodoo or the Catholic Church, but on the narrow point of Radionic Cards and Rates, there is room for some discussion. Radionics works solely on the ability of the Radionic Practitioner to foc

Re: Greg Willis - costs of preps

2003-07-10 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Agri-Synthesis® long-lived and underpriced!

2003-07-07 Thread Gil Robertson
k beds, in LandCare Programs. They want them in long "ropes" for easy planting. Thank you for replying to my email. Gil Robertson ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.

Re: BdMax Bird Scare's Philosophic Anachranism

2003-07-07 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: BdMax Bird Scare's Philosophic Anachranism

2003-07-07 Thread Gil Robertson
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 S

Re: Water consumption - update and thanks

2003-06-30 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Hamish, I think it's great that NSW Water can't believe that BD works. Goes a long ways to proving it's value. Can you supply more detail, off line if you prefer. I would like to bring this to the attention of the Democrat and Green Pollies. Gil Hamish Mackay wrote: Hi

Re: radionic instruments

2003-06-29 Thread Gil Robertson
James Hedley wrote: I think that radionic instruments are just big boys toys. Once you have one they just keep turning up. Just ask Gil how many he has collected. More than I admit to Fran. I have four removalists cartons full in a storage depot, waiting to be smuggled in. An interesting one a

Re: Alex Podolinsky

2003-06-29 Thread Gil Robertson
Dear all, Could I support James comments on Alex Podolinsky. He held his lamp high on the hill, when many were cupboard BDers. He took his beliefs to an unbelieving public, on mainline media, when, even  today, many hide in secrecy and obscure places such as this list. He has built his own

Re: water consumption

2003-06-26 Thread Gil Robertson
On irrigated land in temperate Oz, the reduction should be of the order of five sixths to nine tenths. This includes the water holding capacity of the increased soil carbon and the reduction of use by the healthy plants. On otherwise traditional, irrigated, vineyards should only require one to

Re: keeping focussed

2003-06-25 Thread Gil Robertson
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, to

Re: Aphid control

2003-06-23 Thread Gil Robertson
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 and 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 limes

Re: Aphid control

2003-06-23 Thread Gil Robertson
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 limes

Re: Aphid control

2003-06-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Have you checked the level of calcium in the affected plants. Gil Tony Nelson-Smith wrote: aphids ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/listinfo/bdnow

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

2003-06-16 Thread Gil Robertson
and the plants will pick up and no longer be attractive to the attacking insect, who will literally "go to the neighbors", but will only be a problem if they also have a calcium shortage. Gil Roger Pye wrote: Gil Robertson wrote: Re: the rabbit bit. Have you made a Rae Card or a p

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

2003-06-16 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Roger, Re: the rabbit bit. Have you made a Rae Card or a pepper for the beastie? I have tried all the Rates used in the UK, but with no joy in Oz. The rabbit looks to be the same, but I have not managed to send them to the neighbors. Gil Roger Pye wrote: The council regard it as being t

Re: Can Error be turned to Advantage?

2003-06-15 Thread Gil Robertson
Thank you Roger. Gil Roger Pye wrote: Gil Robertson wrote: May I ask why superphosphate was applied to the reveg, assuming it is native veg, as most do not handle super at all well. ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or

Re: Can Error be turned to Advantage?

2003-06-12 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ther

Re: prep making illegal in the EU

2003-06-10 Thread Gil Robertson
breaks were on the internet and one could check how close they were to any other property. Gil Garuda wrote: Gil Excluded from use or excluded from the ban? GA BdMax distributors of ThermoMax -THE proven frost protection www.bdmax.co.nz - Original Message - From: "Gil Robertson&quo

Re: prep making illegal in the EU

2003-06-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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, fo

Re: Pepper Spraying Journal

2003-05-29 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Merla, You deserve a citation and a Field Broadcaster! I suggest you print out Hugh's article from Acres' Web Site and leave it laying around so Herb can find it and work out for himself it would be much easier for him to build you a Field Broadcaster, than to help with stiring and spraying.

Re: Potatoes in Cages

2003-04-05 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Raw Milk - Submission to Health Canada

2003-04-05 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Raw Milk - Submission to Health Canada

2003-04-04 Thread Gil Robertson
Dear Hugh and Zoran, I think the issue of pasteurisation is more a matter of control and taxation than public health. Raw milk is produced by the individual farmer and used to be sold to friends and neighbours, but compulsion o pasteurise obliges the sale to either a co-op or a commercial proces

Re: Buddy, Can you paradigm?

2003-04-03 Thread Gil Robertson
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 hum

Re: Vitality and fertility ofsoils

2003-04-02 Thread Gil Robertson
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 o

Re: Vitality and fertility ofsoils

2003-04-02 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ti

Re: Austr. Workshop/ Was there a higher purpose?

2003-03-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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 n

Re: Austr. Workshop/ Was there a higher purpose?

2003-03-23 Thread Gil Robertson
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 no

Re: Gary Zimmer, Jerry Brunetti on the OZ/NZ "Three-Up Tour"

2003-03-17 Thread Gil Robertson
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.

Re: Chromas and humus Was Electronic homeopathy for plants.

2003-03-13 Thread Gil Robertson
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 Kite

Re: Guineafowl (was Update on cannibals ... )

2003-03-11 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Electronic homeopathy for plants. Was Re: late winter farm

2003-03-11 Thread Gil Robertson
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. I

Re: EXODUS

2003-03-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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..

Re: Subscriber exodus

2003-03-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ha

Re: donkey in well

2003-03-02 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Gil FW: [globalnews] Der Spiegel: Fundamentalist Bush RegimeWants

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: world update

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: world update

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Robertson
Our forces are on what our diminutive Prime Minister calls "forward deployment". They left our shores some weeks ago and are in the area. To date I understand we have had four killed when a chopper fell down. Their is a special services group of a like size as we committed to Afghanistan, more

Re: FW: [globalnews] Der Spiegel: Fundamentalist Bush Regime Wants Crusade Against Islam; Bush Believes God Put Him in Oval Office (Long)

2003-02-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ca

Re: Worried About Anthrax? By Susun Weed

2003-02-24 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: chicken feed - grit

2003-02-21 Thread Gil Robertson
You need both. Gil Dorothy O'Brien wrote: My reading indicates that the calcium in oyster shell is not adequate for grit because it dissolves in digestion. River sand is good grit. DAO __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators,

Re: chicken feed

2003-02-21 Thread Gil Robertson
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 PROTECTED

Re: Does the benefit outweigh the detriment?

2003-02-13 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Ramial Wood Chips & a Steam Weeder

2003-02-12 Thread Gil Robertson
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 man

Re: Crystaline Structure in Water

2003-02-10 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Penelope, This link will not work for me. Could you repost, please? Gil B&P Bell wrote: G'day: There is a book out, Spritual Gardening at Its Best, by Don Elwood, His website is www.liteweb/hol/.  His company is Hands of Light Seeds.  There are several books and publi

Re: towers of power

2003-02-08 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Dwayne, There is still a lot of work t be done to perfect "Towers of Power". Phil Callahan, in a letter to me, said he finds better results with adding paramagnetic material to the soil. Some built in Oz which included, for reasons better know to the builder, magnets and coils, along with o

Re: power lines

2003-02-03 Thread Gil Robertson
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 f

Re: OT: Smoke Alarm alarming

2003-02-02 Thread Gil Robertson
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 the

Re: COMPOST TEA was Re: Perry's recnt posts

2003-02-01 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: COMPOST TEA was Re: Perry's recnt posts

2003-02-01 Thread Gil Robertson
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 p

Re: AmaranthusAndQuinoa

2003-01-31 Thread Gil Robertson
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 onl

Re: ants in the vanilla

2003-01-29 Thread Gil Robertson
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 plan

Re: not cabin fever!

2003-01-28 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: whingers about Jane Sherry's news postings

2003-01-28 Thread Gil Robertson
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 isolat

Re: to Jane Sherry

2003-01-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: to Jane Sherry

2003-01-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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 sa

Re: Looking for a new CSA name

2003-01-23 Thread Gil Robertson
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 THE ALL SHOP Allan

Re: Certification Story

2003-01-23 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Hugh, As always, you are right on the money. I have spent many years as a relationship councillor, first on the phones at "Life Line", and for the past ten years as part of my "Free Clinic". Again mostly by phone, some by email. About eighty percent of my clients are female. My clients are mai

Re: Root storage

2003-01-21 Thread Gil Robertson
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 laye

Re: Talks with Devas (2)

2003-01-21 Thread 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 de

Re: Swallowing a cat if you have a mouse inside

2003-01-20 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Canberra Wildfire

2003-01-19 Thread Gil Robertson
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 fa

Re: Hauschka reprint

2003-01-15 Thread Gil Robertson
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 au

Re: Personal Security vs National Security - Web spider

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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:

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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" typ

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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 so

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Also answers to King? Gil Allan Balliett wrote: > David - What is your real name? -Allan

Re: where in Texas?/ Private archives?

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
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 h

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

2003-01-09 Thread Gil Robertson
to the sea, with great view. I am near Port Lincoln, South Australia, if you hit google or a map. Where are you? Gil Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: amen brand new "member" jeff barney

Re: tree topic

2003-01-08 Thread Gil Robertson
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 al

Re: BD Farming in America

2003-01-06 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ad

Re: BD Farming in America

2003-01-05 Thread Gil Robertson
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 as

Re: dowsing

2003-01-02 Thread Gil Robertson
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 "conc

Re: source of nettle seeds

2003-01-01 Thread Gil Robertson
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 and

Re: nettle seeds

2003-01-01 Thread Gil Robertson
[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 one

Re: Organic Seed Catalogs and Hellp for organic farmers in developing countries

2002-12-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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 deve

Re: Organic Seed Catalogs and Hellp for organic farmers in developing countries

2002-12-27 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: ADMIN: Re: Science article on BD

2002-12-24 Thread Gil Robertson
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 t

Re: Perfect Orchard-Calcium

2002-12-22 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Roger, Great post, as all ways, Have a good one! Gil Roger Pye wrote: > Allan Balliett wrote:

Re: nettle beer

2002-12-22 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Flylo, Thank you Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If you're interested in this (unusual) topic, run a search in google.

Re: what about honey?

2002-12-20 Thread Gil Robertson
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 in

Monsanto in financial trouble

2002-12-19 Thread Gil Robertson
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

Re: Thank you Merla

2002-12-19 Thread Gil Robertson
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 recogn

Re: sealant for cut tree limb?

2002-12-19 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Tony, If it is still weeping, you could try something which has saved a number of human lives. Common table or cooking salt, when heaped on a bleeding wound and added as required, will stop bleeding and can later be washed away with no harm to the person. I was cruising on a yacht when we were

Re: earwigs

2002-12-18 Thread Gil Robertson
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 int

Re: PLEASE, don't think that that is all you can do

2002-12-18 Thread Gil Robertson
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 you

Re: sealant for cut tree limb?

2002-12-18 Thread Gil Robertson
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 o

Re: sealant for cut tree limb?

2002-12-18 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Tony, I have little Walnut experience as an adult as I like 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 o

Radionics/ Broadcasters

2002-12-16 Thread Gil Robertson
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 S

Re: Perfect Orchard

2002-12-15 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Markess, While Lute Larson may have developed additional rates, she started with the same that I have access to, but have not has occasion to use, in the case of Hard Pan. Hard Pan either indicates the lower point of tillage and is some times treated by the sue of irregular depth tines or chi

Re: Perfect Orchard

2002-12-13 Thread Gil Robertson
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 ac

Re: Hugo Erbe

2002-12-09 Thread Gil Robertson
or print a single copy for our own use. Gil Gil Robertson P.O. Box 51 Port Lincoln SA Australia 5606 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 61 8 86843698 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.

Re: Getting Worried

2002-12-08 Thread Gil Robertson
Allan Balliett wrote: I can't imagine getting from my room to the hall on fucking crutches. Try a bucket of cold water, it works for copulating canines, it may of copulating crutches

Re: Overseas Visitors was Re: Search function

2002-12-08 Thread Gil Robertson
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. > >> > >>

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