Words of Wisdom from Steven McFadden : Chiron Communication Jan.2003
Chiron Communiqué Author's Occasional Newsletter From Steven McFadden in Santa Fe, NM http://www.chiron-communications.com/ Vol. 8 No. 1 © January, 2003 © - Copyright 2003 by Steven McFadden All Rights Reserved Your Food, Your Family, Your Planet: One Big Step Torward Renewal Much is at stake, and we are the keepers of the Earth. - Lincoln Geiger, from Farms of Tomorrow Revisited The human race has only one or perhaps two generations to rescue itself, according to the 2003 State of the World report by Worldwatch Institute.. In its 20th annual report, Worldwatch emphasizes that the longer we delay wholehearted action to remedy the massive environmental and social problems we have created for ourselves, then the deeper the impoverishment and misery that humankind must bear. Life on planet Earth is now unmistakably and imminently threatened by overuse of resources, massive pollution and wholesale destruction of natural areas. Our life-support conditions are deteriorating rapidly. In most cases, nothing is being done. The political will to make changes is lacking. In a preface to the 2003 State of the World Report, Harvard scientist E. O. Wilson writes: If we are going to reverse biodiversity loss, dampen the effects of global warming, and eliminate the scourge of persistent poverty, we need to reinvent ourselves - as individuals, as societies, as corporations, and as governments. While individuals may feel powerless to reinvent or to change the actions of governments and multinational corporations, there is one certain step that they and their household can take: joining and supporting a community farm (CSA). That's because every dollar we spend on food is a direct vote not just on our personal health, but also on the kind of environment we and our families live in. Most food dollars vote - albeit unconsciously - for pesticides, herbicides, synthetic hormones, preservatives, irradiation, and genetically mutated crops and farm animals. Before the year is out, we will likely also have cloned farm animals making their way along the food chain to our kitchen tables. This unappetizing reality - and the harsh economic consequences that follow from it - is not something most people have chosen out of informed free will. Rather, via an unconscious process stimulated by convenience and advertising, people have come to automatically support this system with their food dollars, unaware of the full chain of effects. As documented in the 1998 book I wrote with Trauger Groh, Farms of Tomorrow Revisited, CSA farms offer a range of clear, practical and enormously helpful alternatives in the realms of diet, open local space, work for local farmers, general economics, and specific environmental health. With a CSA the farmer can become a family's Ambassador to the Earth, and the land she or he tills in the community can become an Ecological Oasis of thriving health. A CSA farm is a community-based organization involving consumer households and growers. The households live independently but agree to provide direct, up-front support for the local growers by investing in a share of the harvest. The growers in turn agree to do their best to provide sufficient quantity and quality of food to meet the household needs and expectations of the shareholders. CSA farms typically produce a sizeable share of a family's fresh vegetables and fruits; many CSAs also offer shares of milk, butter, eggs, meat, and flowers; some also have formal links with consumer coops, giving shareholders access to a wide variety of goods. Within this web of economic relationships, the farms and families form a network of mutual support, whether the community is based in an urban neighborhood, a suburb, a church, a school, or some other social constellation. CSA has wide latitude for variation, depending on the resources and desires of the participants. No two community farms are entirely alike. As CSA pioneers conceived of it -- and as it is being practiced at many farms -- CSA is not just another new and clever approach to marketing. Rather, community farming is about the necessary renewal of agriculture through its healthy linkage with the human community that depends on farming for survival. It's also about the necessary stewardship of soil, plants, and animals: the essential capital of human cultures. For those with an interest in learning more about this alternative and the benefits it can bring to them, their families, and their communities, I offer links to two essays I have written on the subject, and links to resources and information. Community Farms in the 21st Century: Outside the Box, But Inside the Hoop http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms-2.html Farms of Tomorrow: Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms-1.html RESOURCES State of the World 2003 - Worldwatch Institute
Re: BD Farming in America
I think we are wishing for an outdated paradigm when we expect to have some top down organizational figure heads baby us through our movement. This is the era of the conciousness soul, the age of individuality. What ever is lacking in the movement is no one fault but our own. Christy Tell me more about this, Christy. I don't really understand what you are saying in the paragraph above, and, to me, it comes across as uncharacteristically mean spirited. I mean, just what am I to make from that paragraph in the face of, for example, 700 BD farms and 2,000,000 BD ACRES in Australia (within just one BD association!) under exaclty the sort or organization you seem to decry? Where are you drawing this 'the age of individuality' from? The age of broken relationships, broken homes, broken communities, broken clergy and so on. I guess I read too much Wendell Berry, but I thought the idea of 'age of individuality' and 'maximum personal freedom' were concepts sown in us by the system that finds both democracies and 'free people' easier to control than people who can still access the traditional support relationships of husband/wife, home/neighborhood, church/community, city/county and so on. (It's not wasted on anyone how much the New World Order fears countries organized in explicitly top down arrangements, is it?
Fwd: OFF: Need help with color work on the chakras
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Penn State and Biodynamic Viticuluture Jan 28-29, Middletown, PA
January 28 - 29 A meeting to discuss alternative viticulture will be offered by Penn State Cooperative Extension of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The goal of the meeting is to bring perspective and information to the often fuzzy realm of non-conventional commercial viticulture, including sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods. Recently, there has been a tremendous interest in these new techniques of farming wine grapes. It is the objective of this meeting to give sound and practical information on subjects that exist outside of our customary agricultural experience, and are too often tainted with hyperbole. A group of serious individuals, researchers, growers, vendors and extension agents will present their views and experience of this new frontier in grape growing. It is hoped that, armed with this information, new and experienced growers will be able to decide for themselves if they want to employ these practices on their own farms. This is a day and a half meeting, which will be held at the Spring Garden Conference Center in Middletown, PA, just east of Harrisburg. The cost will be approximately $100 per person for both days, which includes coffee, continental breakfast, drinks and snacks on both days, and lunch on the first day. A list of motels and restaurants in the area list will be provided with registration materials. For more information and registration, please contact Mark Chien at 717-394-6851 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Speakers will include Gunther Hauk of the Pfeiffer Center (NY), William Brinton from Woods End Research Lab (ME), Vicki Bess from BBC Labs (AZ), Al MacDonald, president of Oregon LIVE, Alan York, a private biodynamic consultant (CA), Alice Wise, viticulture extension agent for Cornell University on Long Island (NY), Don Lotter from the Rodale Institute (PA), as well as local (eastern U.S.) growers with experience in using alternative viticulture in their vineyards Travis and Elwin Stewart will offer updates on their research activities, including results from two years of compost trials on commercial cooperator plots. Pre-registration deadline is Jan 17.
Fwd: Solid Cow Manure
Kia ora all This morning I went into the cowshed and was somewhat amazed by the = sudden difference in the consistency of the manure. Having had a = difficult 9 months with the cows healthwise it just seemed that this = morning their manure was like it should be rather than the green = rainbows that they have been expelling most of the time. This really has me wondering if there has been any cause for this as it = was such a sudden change and with them all. =20 Maybe it was because Fonterra (NZ's giant dairy co-operative) have just = been and signed me up today to be processing our organic milk = separately. We are # 14 in a country of 14,000 dairy farms. =20 Have a wonderful 2003 everyone and may your dreams come true like mine = have today Kia kaha Diana
ADMIN: Science article on BD
Nice Post, Kara, but, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE **NEVER** send files or attachments to BD Now! If you need to show graphics to BD Now!, please publish them on the web youself and refer to them OR contact me off line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask me to publish them for you. Graphics clog the net, graphics choke low-bandwidth readers, and, graphics can carry VIRUS. Thanks -Allan
About BD500
This article copied from http://www.kheper.net/ecognosis/essays/Biodynamic_500.html You'll find the referenced illustrations at this link, also -AB) About Biodynamic 500 spray. This article orginally appeared in the Anthroposphical Journel of Australia in February 1991. It was subsquently picked up by the biodynamic gardening journal in the USA. Mentioned in this article are Marion and Walter Burley Griffin. They created the forms and plans that have resulted in modern Canberra - the National Capital of Australia. Much of the material in this web site is related to them. Both were deeply into the spiritual aspects of reality. Oral history tapes about their personalities exists in the National Library of Australia. In time more about them will appear in the Ecognosis material. Over two thousand Australians and New Zealanders use Biodynamic 500 spray on their land. The spray is one of Rudolf Steiner's ideas. It is made by filling cow horns with fresh cow manure and burying them in Winter. In Spring when the horns are dug up the manure has been transformed into the crumbly mixture known as 500 - the Soil Preparation. Correctly stored it keeps for years. Sprayed onto the soil in Spring it - in some mysterious way - improves the soil and the quality of the plants which grow in it. What follows is an account of my experiences with 500 about ten years ago. It was an experience that was both practical and spiritual. At the time I was a concerned Anthroposophist who felt that I needed to make the Spiritual aspects of my experience available to readers of the Australian Anthroposophical Journal - who hopefully will not come to the conclusion that I am always Off with the Fairies. It all started about 5 years before I wrote the article when we visited Robert Walcott, a long time user of 500. His farm is a sheep property on the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. The property, to my slightly experienced but amateur eye did not appear to be anything special, it suffered from too many sheep and a run of dry years. At that stage I had no confidence and little knowledge about biodynamics or 500 spray. When pressed by my host I mumbled things like, Interesting, and Oh yes, it is QUITE possible. We forgot our cooler box in the Walcott's kitchen. In it we had bananas, bread, a bit of cheese and some apples. Later the cooler was returned to us. The puzzling thing was that nothing in the cooler had gone off - everything was fine and eatable even after a week of sitting in the enclosed box in a corner of a heated kitchen. Peculiar, Well, I said to myself, It may be due to the quartz crystals which abound on the farm or to the 500 spray or to God knows what. I now know that I was almost right ... but therein lays more of the tale. Rob gave us ajar of 500 preparation neatly tucked into a box of peat moss. Remaining cynical, I put it in my cellar and left it there for two years. This year we had a wet, warm Spring, and so we decided it was time to try 500. It was the 6th of October, 1990, at about eight in the evening. The moon was full in the sky. Dew was starting to fall and. the earth, in the jargon of Biodynamics, was open or breathing in. After a pleasant dinner on the veranda we hunted up a bucket, poured some baby bottle-warm rain water into it and dug through the kitchen drawers for a long handled wooden jam making spoon. We crumbled a bit of 500 Preparation into the bucket. Then we started to stir. There were four of us and we stir-red for the recommended hour. After about half an hour we noticed a smell - it was a bit like frangipani - a pleasant sweet smell and not at all what one expects to get from cow manure. We stirred in the prescribed way, clockwise and anticlockwise forming a whirlpool in the Centre of the bucket. The biodynamic literature suggests that this whirlpool is a chaos situation. Seemingly, the forces of the cosmos and the stars enter the mixture during the stirring to activate the energies that were locked in the specially buried cow manure. Later, when the mixture is sprayed, it is said that the captured cosmic and earth forces are released to enliven the soil and give strength to plants. This is an interesting picture but one I doubt after my subsequent experiences. At this stage I was still both skeptical and curious. I have been divining water and dowsing Geomantic energies for many years. So I hunted up a pendulum and held it over the mixture, curious to see what sort of reaction would result. I got no reaction at all. Now, I expected a strong clockwise or anticlockwise rotation of the pendulum over the bucket. Surely you would expect that, I mean here we had been stirring water in a bucket for an hour creating whirlpools in either direction but no, I did not get that. What I got was nothing, a complete blankness - most peculiar, because even an unstirred bucket of water has radiations that affect a pendulum,
Fwd: From Mark Moody
OK - I'll let you know what happens when you Americans get out of bed and I get a reply to my fax.
WENDELL BERRY: The Failure of War
from RESURGENCE #215 http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/home.htm THE FAILURE of WAR by Wendell Berry IF YOU KNOW even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that of retribution - the 'justice' of exchanging one damage for another. Apologists for war will insist that war answers the problem of national self-defence. But the doubter, in reply, will ask what extent the cost even of a successful war of national defence - in life, money, material, foods, health, and (inevitably) freedom - may amount to a national defeat. National defence through war always involves some degree of national defeat. This is a paradox: militarisation in defence of freedom reduces the freedom of the defenders. There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and freedom. In a modern war, fought with modern weapons and on the modern scale, neither side can limit to 'the enemy' the damage that it does. These wars damage the world. We know enough by now to know that you cannot damage a part of the world without damaging all of it. Modern war has not only made it impossible to kill 'combatants' without killing 'noncombatants': it has made it impossible to damage your enemy without damaging yourself. That many have considered the increasing unacceptability of modern warfare is shown by the language of the propaganda surrounding it. Modern wars have characteristically been fought to end war; they have been fought in the name of peace. Our most terrible weapons have been made, ostensibly, to preserve and assure the peace of the world. All we want is peace, we say as we increase relentlessly our capacity to make war. Yet at the end of a century in which we have fought two wars to end war and several more to prevent war and preserve peace, and in which scientific and technological progress have made war ever more terrible and less controllable, we still, by policy, give no consideration to non-violent means of national defence. We do indeed make much of diplomacy and diplomatic relations, but by diplomacy we mean invariably ultimatums for peace backed by the threat of war. It is always understood that we stand ready to kill those with whom we are 'peacefully negotiating'. OUR CENTURY OF war, militarism and political terror has produced great - and successful - advocates of true peace, among whom Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the paramount examples. The considerable success that they achieved testifies to the presence, in the midst of violence, of an authentic and powerful desire for peace and, more important, of the proven will to make the necessary sacrifices. But so far as our government is concerned, these men and their great and authenticating accomplishments might as well never have existed. To achieve peace by peaceable means is not yet our goal. We cling to the hopeless paradox of making peace by making war. Which is to say that we cling in our public life to a brutal hypocrisy. In our century of almost universal violence of humans against fellow humans, and against our natural and cultural commonwealth, hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition to violence has been selective or merely fashionable. Some of us who approve of our monstrous military budget and our peacekeeping wars nonetheless deplore 'domestic violence' and think that our society can be pacified by 'gun control'. Some of us are against capital punishment but for abortion. Some of us are against abortion but for capital punishment. One does not have to know very much or think very far in order to see the moral absurdity upon which we have erected our sanctioned enterprises of violence. Abortion-as-birth-control is justified as a 'right', which can establish itself only by denying all the rights of another person, which is the most primitive intent of warfare. Capital punishment sinks us all to the same level of primal belligerence, at which an act of violence is avenged by another act of violence. What the justifiers of these acts ignore is the fact - well-established by the history of feuds, let alone the history of war - that violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in 'justice' or in affirmation of 'rights' or in defence of 'peace' do not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation. The most dangerous superstition of the parties of violence is the idea that sanctioned violence can prevent or control unsanctioned violence. But if violence is 'just' in one instance as determined by the state, why might it not also be 'just' in another instance, as determined by an individual? How can a society that justifies capital punishment and warfare prevent its justifications from being extended to assassination and terrorism? If a government perceives that some causes are so important as to justify the killing of children, how can it hope to prevent the contagion of its logic spreading to its citizens - or to its citizens' children? If we give
Fwd: A REAL RAW DEAL
Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michael Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: A REAL RAW DEAL To: email metrofarm [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Priority: 3 Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0 List-Help: mailto:metrofarm-request;pairlist.net?subject=help List-Post: mailto:metrofarm;pairlist.net List-Subscribe: http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/metrofarm, mailto:metrofarm-request;pairlist.net?subject=subscribe List-Id: MetroFarm Foodchain Release metrofarm.pairlist.net List-Unsubscribe: http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/metrofarm, mailto:metrofarm-request;pairlist.net?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/metrofarm/ Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:54:30 -0800 A FOOD CHAIN RELEASE FROM METROFARM.COM Imagine a food so wholesome it actually destroys the deadly E Coli 0157 bacteria! What food could possibly be so potent? Milk organic, raw milk! This Saturday at 9AM Pacific, the Food Chain with Michael Olson hosts Mark McAfee from organic pastures dairy for a conversation about his return to producing milk the old fashioned way, and the impact his dairy products are having in the modern marketplace. Topics will include why the McAfee dairy farm does not confine its cows to pens, inoculate them with Bovine Growth Hormones or antibiotics, or pasturize their milk; how this dairy can survive the intense scrutiny of State officials, who have long-since run most other raw dairies out of business; and why consumers are assuming the risk of consuming the McAfee's raw dairy products. Listeners are invited to call the program on KFRM, KSCO, KOMY, KGOE or KMPH with questions and comments at 800-624-2665. Log on archived Food Chain shows: http://www.metrofarm.com/www.metrofarm.com. Share your thoughts on this subject: http://bbs.cartserver.com/bbs/p/2466/index.cgihttp://bbs.cartserver.com/bbs/p/2466/index.cgi Unsubscribe: mailto:postmaster;metrofarm.com[EMAIL PROTECTED] / subject: unsubscribe (include email address) NOTE: The Food Chain is now available to commercial radio stations throughout the United States. Please help with the dissemination of the program by copying the hotlink below and emailing it to the Program Director of your favorite newstalk radio station. Tell her or him how much you would like to hear the Food Chain in your area! http://www.metrofarm.com/index.asp?cat=43020http://www.metrofarm.com/index.asp?cat=43020
ADMIN: Watch out for address book scam!
This is unverified by me, folks, but I've received the mailing and, in my innocence, was saved from downloading the software by the fact that it is not Mac-compatible. Any one as narcisstic as I is in danger of being scammed by this site, it appears! -Allan - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: VirusEye Subscriber [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 10:30 PM Subject: Important Information: Greeting Card E-mail Scam MessageLabs8 Nov 2002 Please be aware that there is a mass-mailing Greeting Card e-mail scam currently active on the Internet. It is being operated by a company called Permissioned Media Inc., based in Panama. The e-mail will appear in your inbox and will ask you to click upon a link to view the greeting card you have been sent. The link is not necessarily related to a greeting card site, and after clicking on it, will state that software needs to be installed on your machine for you to view the greeting card. Within the terms and conditions of the license it states that by agreeing to the installation of the software, you are also agreeing that a copy of the greeting card e-mail can be sent to everyone in your address book. If you accept the terms of the lience agreement, it will send a copy of the e-mail to the contacts in your address book. Examples of domains that we have seen operating this scam are as follows: friend-greeting.com or .net, friendgreetings.com or .net, cool-downloads.com or .net, friend-greetings.com or .net, friend-cards.com or .net All of which are registered to Permissioned Media inc. The greeting card e-mail scam is not technically a virus or a worm, and many anti-virus vendors are stating that they have no plans to detect and prevent the program. Please be vigilant when reading licence agreements and installing software of this nature, especially from organisations such as Permissioned Media Inc. who are distributing the FriendsGreeting program. If you have any questions, please contact the MessageLabs Help Desk, or your Customer Services Executive. Further information may be found here. Regards, MessageLabs www.messagelabs.com This email was sent to you because you subscribe to MessageLabs' Virus Alert service. You can cancel your subscription on the MessageLabs website at http://www.messagelabs.com/AlertUnsubscribe MessageLabs is a leading provider of Internet-level managed email security services. Through its SkyScan portfolio of services, MessageLabs customers are protected from email-borne threats such as viruses, unsolicited mail and pornographic material, before such content comes anywhere near their network boundaries. 8 Nov 2002 Please be aware that there is a mass-mailing Greeting Card e-mail scam currently active on the Internet. It is being operated by a company called Permissioned Media Inc., based in Panama. The e-mail will appear in your inbox and will ask you to click upon a link to view the greeting card you have been sent. The link is not necessarily related to a greeting card site, and after clicking on it, will state that software needs to be installed on your machine for you to view the greeting card. Within the terms and conditions of the license it states that by agreeing to the installation of the software, you are also agreeing that a copy of the greeting card e-mail can be sent to everyone in your address book. If you accept the terms of the lience agreement, it will send a copy of the e-mail to the contacts in your address book. Examples of domains that we have seen operating this scam are as follows: friend-greeting.com or .net, friendgreetings.com or .net, cool-downloads.com or .net, friend-greetings.com or .net, friend-cards.com or .net All of which are registered to Permissioned Media inc. The greeting card e-mail scam is not technically a virus or a worm, and many anti-virus vendors are stating that they have no plans to detect and prevent the program. Please be vigilant when reading licence agreements and installing software of this nature, especially from organisations such as Permissioned Media Inc. who are distributing the FriendsGreeting program. If you have any questions, please contact the MessageLabs Help Desk, or your Customer Services Executive. Further information may be found at: www.messagelabs.com/viruseye/report.asp?id=111. Regards, MessageLabs www.messagelabs.com This email was sent to you because you subscribe to MessageLabs' Virus Alert service. You can cancel your subscription on the MessageLabs website at http://www.messagelabs.com/AlertUnsubscribe MessageLabs is a leading provider of Internet-level managed email security services. Through its SkyScan portfolio of services, MessageLabs customers are protected from email-borne threats such as viruses, unsolicited mail and pornographic material, before such content comes anywhere near their network
FWD: HAARP Concerns Russian Duma
From Tom Schley: US HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma Interfax News Agency 8-9-2 MOSCOW (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma has expressed concern about the USA's programme to develop a qualitatively new type of weapon. Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme (HAARP) [website address: http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/], the USA is creating new integral geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with high-frequency radio waves, the State Duma said in an appeal circulated on Thursday [8 August]. The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at once an object of direct influence and its component. These conclusions were made by the commission of the State Duma's international affairs and defence committees, the statement reads. The committees reported that the USA is planning to test three facilities of this kind. One of them is located on the military testing ground in Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin in early 2003. The second one is in Greenland and the third one in Norway. When these facilities are launched into space from Norway, Alaska and Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly fantastic integral potential for influencing the near-Earth medium, the State Duma said. The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments under the HAARP programme, and not controlled by the global community, will create weapons capable of breaking radio communication lines and equipment installed on spaceships and rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the mental health of people populating entire regions, the deputies said. They demanded that an international ban be put on such large-scale geophysical experiments. The appeal, signed by 90 deputies, has been sent to President Vladimir Putin, to the UN and other international organizations, to the parliaments and leaders of the UN member countries, to the scientific public and to mass media outlets. Among those who signed the appeal are Tatyana Astrakhankina, Nikolay Kharitonov, Yegor Ligachev, Sergey Reshulskiy, Vitaliy Sevastyanov, Viktor Cherepkov, Valentin Zorkaltsev and Aleksey Mitrofanov. Dr. Nick Begich, Author Earthpulse Press Incorporated PO Box 201393 Anchorage, Alaska 99520 USA www.earthpulse.com Phone: 1-907-249-9111 Fax: 1-907-696-1277 Dr. Nick Begich founder of Earthpulse Press and co-author of Angel's Don't Play This HAARP and Earth Rising the Revolution, delivered a lecture on Arctic issues and HAARP in Brussels in the European Parliament on May 5-7, 1997 at the 12th General Assembly Globe International. In attendance were several members of the Russian Duma including Vitaliy Sevastyanov on of the signers listed below. Dr. Begich's book, an exposé published in September 1996, launched the international investigation into the issues surrounding HAARP. Begich has continued to follow HAARP and related military technologies since 1994. He is a frequently called upon expert in these areas. His work led to early political efforts in the European Parliament which resulted in their adoption of resolutions also in opposition to HAARP in January 1998. Begich has appeared on BBC-TV, CBC-TV, TeleMundo, Spiegal TV, Fuji TV and others throughout the world and continues to report on these and other technology subjects. ACTION ALERT: Please pass this to your friends, radio contacts and political leaders...Thank you!
RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture'
The following is from Agriculture of Tomorrow by Eugen and Lily Kolisko. This title is out of print and is reproduced here for purposes of education. Today, people in general are little inclined to detach themselves from the claims of the material world and to seek the spiritual directly in the physical world around them . . . It is, however, precisely from observing directly the sense-perceptible that a right path will open out for those who wish now to work entirely within the fild of present-day science, if they really seek to discover the spritual there. It can be done . . Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION It may seem strange to speak about smallest entities in agriculture, but it is absolutely necessary that farmers and gardeners learn to understand this important phenomenon. The problem of minutest quantities, or better smallest entities, was studied from 1920 in the Biological Institute at the Goetheanum (Stuttgart) and later on in the Biological Institute at Bray, Berks. The attempt to find a remedy for Footand-Mouth Disease led us to the question of smallest entities. What is the right concentration of the specific remedy to be injected? Rudolf Steiner suggested that the effect of different dilutions on germinating plants should be studied. From 1920 until today we have been studying this interesting subject. One might think that this is a medical problem rather than an agricultural one. Of course it is a medical problem in that we are looking for a certain remedy, but it becomes an agricultural problem as well if we study how the growth of plants is affected by substances which are diluted, or rather potentised. What does potentise mean? Exactly what the word itself expresses. In potentising a substance, we increase its effectiveness. We make the substance more potent. The strange thing about potentising is, that we have to reduce the amount of the substance which we want to make more potent. In everyday life we are accustomed to think: if we want to make something more effective, we have to take a bigger quantity. For instance, if we want to make coffee sweeter, we take a second teaspoonful of sugar. In homeopathy we are told just the opposite thing. If we want a stronger action from a certain remedy, we have to potentise it, that means dilute it with water or alcohol, again and again, in a rhythmical way. This is the first and most important thing we have to learn: to discriminate between matter and force. Matter can act in two different ways: as matter, or as the specific force behind the matter. In everyday life we ask only for matter, for quantity, and we do not even stop to think, that there is something like a force which is active in every kind of matter. Sugar for instance is not only sweet that is one quality we discover with our sense of taste. Besides being sweet, sugar has many other qualities which we are unable to taste but none-the-less have definite reactions within our organism. Now we must raise another important question: What do we want in reality? The substance itself, or the inner quality of the substance? For instance, a farmer may be convinced that his soil needs lime. How does he solve the problem? Usually he digs a large amount of lime into the soil. Again and again he will dig in lime. Let us now study the influence of smallest entities of lime on the germination of wheat. We put a certain number of seeds in a control dish with water. Then we dissolve one gram of calcium hydroxide in ten parts of water and shake the mixture for some minutes; then we have the first potency or a dilution of 1: 10. We take I part of the first potency; mix it with 9 parts of water; shake for the same time, and we have the second potency, or a dilution of 1:100. We may continue this process of diluting as long as we like. Usually we make our experiments up to the 60th potency. Having finished all the potencies, we insert the carefully selected seeds, and, a few days later we compare the results. The seeds inserted in he first potency of lime scarcely start to germinate. The effect of lime in such a high concentration is thus proven unfavorable. The seeds in the 2nd potency start to sprout, while while those in the water control are much more advanced in growth. The 3rd potency is more advanced than the 2nd, the 4th is of about the same value as the water control, the 5th already surpasses the water control and has definitely better developed roots. The 6th potency is more advanced than the 5th, and the 7th and 8th potencies show still more increase in growth. That means, if we observe these few potencies, that a dilution of 1: 100,000,000 of lime produces a much better growth than a lower potency. The lime works much more powerfully 9 we use a minute quantity. Whenever we have to introduce lime into the soil we need not dig in a ,'large quantity of the solid matter, but spray a certain potency carefully on the
Fwd: re:lime and humus
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re:lime and humus To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Allan, Please Fwd: Dear Lance, et. al, As matter of fact, I had this same question a few weeks ago; does lime eat humus? First, I don't think RS was addressing the types of type we have offered to us today; bagged and rated. It struck me as odd, but in the lectures he seems to be addressing different forms of calcium. This morning I was reading and just happened to come across the definition. Industry produces the bagged lime we get today by the heating process; taking rock CaCo3 and turns it into CA-Co in powdered form. Viktor Schaubeger, who was a bit more radical in his approach, states that we never want to put anything on the soil that has been through an extreme heat process. He also states that this destroys the soil mechanism. Lance, your remarks on the fires in the west do seem to have some validity. However, I don't think we are getting the entire picture. It took me years of hard study to understand what was going on. Bear with me please. As probably everyone on this list knows, both the Egyptian and Mayan Calendars end in the year 2012. The problem is trying to figure out, from a Macro point of view, exactly what is going on. Well, the Polonesians did a lot of Island hopping across the Pacific; following Islands along a volcanic ridge. Some of them ended up in the Hawaiian Isles. Then, somewhere in the 14 to 1500s these extremely active volcanoes went dormant. I came across an article a little while back stating that Geologists had been able to track a plume of volcanic silica traveling all the way from the east coast of Africa, across central America, down to the Hawaiian Isles. However, all this doesn't help understand the western fires does it. Well, every now and then I check the USGS site for lists of current earthquakes. I found out later though that some of the activity is not being reported there. Specifically, Mt Hood in Oregon is rising. Some believe that a giant magma deposit is pushing upward. So if magma has once again began to move within the western states, this could well help trigger the drying of the soils and subsequent fires there. This is not the ultimate answer though; just another cause/effect. The real question is how an ancient culture had a clock or calendar that would predict when these phenomena would again take place to change the face of the earth. This is quite a bit of a different change as opposed to those who use depreciation accounting to change the balance line to make themselves look better. Michael. __ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com
Fwd: re:fresh nettle tea
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:15:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re:fresh nettle tea To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allan,Pls Fwd: When you say formic acid around plants, in association with the bees, wouldn't this imply the flower specifically? I wonder what effect this has on fruit formation? Michael ideas of the Ag Lectures with those he gave on the bees with Stinging Nettle substances providing a subtle link. The bees association to formic acid [in its sting] and the sting in nettles is the same. This fine homepathic presence of formic acid around the plants from the buzzing around of the bees is very important. The lack of bees needs to be made up for, possibly nettles tea is an important link. Since the decline of bees I have noticed a tremendous increase in the number of ants on the farm. Phenomenal amounts of ants, nests in the driveways, fields, and compost. Put a board or an implement down and a nest appears underneath it. Ants also provide this fine dilution of formic acid in their bite and for marking their trails...SStorch __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com
Glen Atkinson / Elaine Ingham / Hugh Lovel / Hugh Courtney /James DeMeo / Mark Shepard / Steve Storch / Jerry Brunetti / Will Winterand more featured Oct 4-6 in Loudoun Co. VA
I'm a solid supporter of RDI and their Bioneers events, so please don't take the following wrong. I just wanted to remind everyone that they can spend 3 days with the above speakers for a measily $125 if they register for the 7th Annual Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference in the near future.. With the exception of the speaker the BDA is providing, this conference is presented entirely through the personal funds and efforts of the Ballietts (who carry deep gratitude for what the speakers go through to bring their messages of holistic natural farming to the attendees of this event). Your early registration will help take some of the financial burden off from our household. In return, we are offering a $25 discount from the $150 registration fee for the time being. There's still plenty of room at the conference but the current plan is to limit attendees to 100 so that the quality of the experience is maximized for everyone. To register, contact me on-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call me at 540 668 6165. (Allan Balliett 36824 Pinehill Lane Purcellville, VA 20132) Free camping at the beautiful Blue Ridge Center www.brces.org I hope to have the webpage up by this evening. http://www.gardeningforthefuture.com -Allan
Fwd: farmers' market and farmer stories wanted
Subject: farmers' market and farmer stories wanted Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:34:59 -0400 X-Priority: 1 Friends of farmers' markets, Apologies for the short notice, but if you can reply to this early the week of the 29th, and not later than Friday the 2nd, I'll be grateful. I need your help in identifying the best and most interesting farmers' markets and food producers in the country. I'm shooting a pilot episode for a TV series called Farmers' Daughter, which we're hoping to sell to a US network. It will be similar to the 13-part British series I hosted, Farmers' Market. In each episode of that series, I go to a farmers' market, meet producers, visit a particuluar farm, learn about how the food is raised, and then cook something at the market. The British series explores food, farming, environmental, and cooking issues, from why buy local to why beef should be grass fed. The US series will be similar, though we may cook at farms, rather than at the market. For the first episode, we've chosen two farmers, one beef and one vegetable, who sell at a farmers' market in Northern VA, the oldest market in the region. We'll need ideas for another dozen episodes, with one market and two producers per episode. We won't do another Virginia farm, and we probably won't repeat beef, though there are many variations on vegetables we might do, so if you know an interesting salad greens grower, or chilli pepper master, let me know. I'm looking for about two dozen outstanding producers at a dozen farmers' markets with interesting stories for the rest of the series. We will need to achieve the following: a) regional spread, including variations on markets (big city, small town, etc) b) a range of produce (fish, lamb, poultry, game, mushrooms, wine, juice, sprouts, cheese, butter, milk, ice cream, grains, hot peppers) c) the producer must be bona fide, use his own ingredigents in processed foods (eg milk for ice cream), and sell at a producer-only farmers' market If the producer story is exceptional, the producer might be direct marketing some other way, like an outstanding CSA, or, say, a fisherman with her own boat who sells sustainably caught fish and is a great cook. Be generous with your recommendations, as long as they fit the theme of regional, sustainable farm produce, sold in the alternative, not large-scale commercial, venues. If this request could be posted in an appropriate place (like farmers' market organizers' offices or bulletins, the public markets forum, or the national network of farmers' markets), I would be grateful. Please forward this to anyone you know who runs an outstanding farmers' market or knows outstanding growers. For a posting, you can simply use this note, tweaked. Or I could write a 'Call for outstanding farmers' markets and outstanding producer stories' bulletin, with my contact details attached. I hope you can help. Thanks very much, Best wishes, Nina NINA PLANCK 1644 Monroe St, NW Washington, DC 20010-1804 202 232 6042 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fwd: Cabbage Worm (?)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Thomas Schley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cabbage Worm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ; format=flowed Can anyone help me with what I think is cabbage worm? My kale leaves are full of holes. Could the white butterfly with dark dots on its wings I see flying around be the cabbage worm? I tried spraying with 24 hour nettle tea as suggested by the Oregon BD Assoc. website. It hasn't helped yet. A neighbour says I can borrow some of his BT to spray on. He says it is completely organic. My question is, is its use allowed for certified BDers? I would rather stick with the nettle tea until I know more about it and how it could upset things in my garden. Thanks, Tom
From Michael Smith: FWD: Right, No Drought in SE!
Allan, Please Fwd: Dear Hugh, What is happening is that municipalities are sucking up entire rivers; not replacing water. This gives the impression of drought, when resources are diverted. I read that Atlanta's projected reserve date of 2020 for water has been downgraded to 2012 (to run out of water). What they are planning is to tap the Savanah. Update; for the first time since the 1700's healing springs in the low country have gone dry.(Earthquake hunters take your queue from this!). Also, rainfall amounts in the month of May were equivilent of May of 1895(another possible clue?). The natural resources combined with the soil type here will not support the logistics of Northeastern and Western grid populations. Hmmm, I guess something catastrophic, not found in recent memory will have to occur for the point to be made. This is actually for the people who have never heard this before. Michael. Do You Yahoo!? http://autos.yahoo.com/Yahoo! Autos - Get free new car price quotes
MARK PURDEY Fwd: pilferers and plagerists, et al
Hi Allan, I've just been corresponding with Mark from Wisconsin about plagerists which you are apparently debating at the moment on BD Now. This arose after a Colorado journalist had given oxygen to some plagerists of my work - despite having interviewed me at length, he obviously decided that his journalistic license and success would personally prosper if he donated all of my work to a few docters rather than just a mere farmer !!! Please publish the enclosed letter which i have just written to Mark - if you want. It seems that he has suffered the same outrage in his past. take care , Mark Subj: Re: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of this just pri... Date: 15/07/02 20:03:10 GMT Daylight Time From: mailto:MadCowPurdeyMadCowPurdey To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi mark, Yea, please put up my comments to BD Now about the plagerists and cuckoos which seem to currently predominate the whole scientific scene. I am so bloody angry right now with this kind of treatment. It will be great to meet with you and share our many common interests and frustrations !! please send on the following paragraphs too, as this whole issue needs to be sorted out on behalf of so many genuine, more humble scientists ( and artists ) worldwide. It seems to be the people with passions - like yourself with glycoproteins, etc - who invariably become the people who make the true advances in scientific knowledge at the end of the day. But these creative thinkers are ironically the ones whose intuitive energies and insight gets vampirized - simply because they are totally open with their research and findings, wanting to share and discuss any new knowledge which they unearth on their investigative journey, etc. But sadly this open approach ends up destroying them. For most of the sociopathic, sharp suited ,senior scientists - if you can call them scientists - are more interested in becoming front page 'media tarts' than following their supposed pursuit of scientific research and advancement. Time and time again it is this same incestuous clique of expertise who choose to abuse their position of power, considering it their god given right to hijack every iota of original observation amongst their students, outsider scientists, etc, and then cuckoo it out as their own discovery to the uninformed public. It is not uncommon to watch those same experts use any opportunity that they can grasp to publicly discredit the very originator of the work that they have just plagerised. Its sick. Having chosen to farm like yourself - instead of carrying on up the ladder of mainstream academia - I have regularly found my own original work becoming primetime prey for these vultures ! They consider it a walk over to plagerise a mere farmer - no second thoughts about breaking all the rules of scientific ethics. Despite having published peer reviewed, copyrighted scientific journal articles to my name ( with acceptance dates, etc ), my former vindictive critics are right now regurgitating out my precise hypotheses from the ealy 1990s under under their own name !!! Just recently I found myself subjected to the mother of all plagerist assaults. After some high profile media publicity surrounding my BSE research findings, the UK government's Minister of Research , Baroness Haymann, invited me to submit a three research proposal designed around my working hypotheses. The government assured me that the work would be funded providing the project was formulated upon sound scientific protocols. I teamed up with reputable academic universities, and the proposal took me about 300 hours to prepare. After sitting on my proposal for one and a half years - by which time the public interest in my work had waned - I was appalled to get my study rejected for a host of irrational, irrelevant unscientific reasons. One reviewer of the study had actually misread the number of samples I was taking per cluster area by twenty times less than the actual number that I had proposed. The government scientists then trumped this erroneous critique up as their key k nock down point on which my grant was rejected. Even If I had only proposed to take one sample per cluster area - as this idiot was stating - they could have simply advised me to take more !!! Salt was truly rubbed into my wounds when I read how the government had subsequently invited this same idiot to sit on their most senior spongiform advisory committee. Worse still, my requests for personal data held on me which I filed via the Data Protection Act, revealed that the government had actually given a grant award for pursuing my work. Who had they given it to ? the very reviewer of my work who had made such an ill founded rejection ! The government had therefore tricked me into handing over the fruits of my thousands of miles and pounds of self funded donkeybacked research, so that their own tame
MARK PURDEY: To The Ends Of The Earth 5
That morning , Kandy came to pick me up from the Mission. Former health officer on the miners' union, she had been emailing me for ages since my BBC film about Manganese and mad cow was shown on ABC Four Corners. Kandy had lived on Groote with her husband for twenty years, having done the hippy trail around the world back in the 1970s. Both of them had been employed in the mines, and she had become concerned since her own blood tests had shown high manganese and low magnesium. Kandy took me to meet a group of concerned woman in the local hall of the mining village at Alyangula, many of whom had young children and were connected to the mine in some way. This seemed a good opportunity for promoting the importance of magnesium supplementation as a prevention against some forms of manganese intoxication. Particularly important in any children who are concieved on this island. For when magnesium is low and manganese is high, manganese can substitute itself into vacant sites on magnesium activated enzymes, with disastrous repercussions causing total inactivation of those enzymes as I have mentioned previously.. What needs to be of the greatest concern to pregnant women, is the fact that manganese can induce mutations in genetic material when high manganese / low magnesium circumstances cause an inactivation of the magnesium ribosomal enzymes - producing the genetic problem of Groote syndrome that is so widely seen in the Aboriginal community down the road at Angurugu. Whilst Aboriginals are no doubt more susceptible to this specific mutation for dietary and genetic reasons, the Caucasian miners could well start developing these and other types of mutations in their offspring. Amazingly, the potential of high Manganese to invoke mutations is ironically being exploited in pharmacology to positive uses in the fight to suppress the AIDS syndrome. Manganese can inactivate the magnesium activated enzyme, reverse transcriptase, once the manganese to magnesium ration gets too high in cells . This deprives the HIV virus of its ability to make multiple copies of itself ; thereby severely suppressing the development of the AIDS disease process. Kandy then took me up to the headquarters of the mine, where I had been scheduled for a tour and then a meeting with the big brother of the company !! One of the Union bosses then drove me around the different mine sites to view the techniques of open cast mining - felling the forest, blasting, stripping off the upper crust of laterites, mining the black manganese dioxide ore bed, backfilling, then replanting. I must say that I was highly impressed with the replanted rainforest after the mining operations had been completed. Indigenous saplings had been utilized, managed and maintained by Aboriginal labour until it was certain that the trees had taken root. I honestly could not distinguish between original rainforest and replanted - save the height of the trees. It was overtly apparent that this mining corporation was not operating like some of the more dubious operations at work in S America and New Quinea. In the worker's canteen I met one of the miners who was pleased to meet with me. He had been bereaved and left with two young children a few years earlier after his wife had died of a motor neurone type disease identical to that of the Aboriginal's Groote syndrome. Maxine had worked in the laboratory at the mine where I was guided to next. I met the chief chemist in the lab who showed me the black samples of manganese dioxide - referred to as the black magic metal back in Byzantine times -which they spent all day analysing . Whilst it was reasonably apparent that the mining company had been doing a highly impressive job regarding the preservation of the environment and safeguarding some of the socio-economic interests of the Aboriginal community, I did however feel that there could have been an insidious problem with the issue of airborn manganese being kicked up by the dust factor. Although the mine had been attempting to dampen down the dust from time to time with water, there were storage heaps and tailings heaps of manganese very close to the village of Angurugu ( just a few hundred metres from some houses ) and storage heaps around the jetty very close to the mining village of Alyangula. All residents had been complaining of black dust settling inside their houses - even the houses that had air conditioning. It did seem to me that the problems of this community were fundamentally based upon the high manganese bedrock so close to the surface - with all local water and home grown food supplies being contaminated. But the dust from the mining operation had considerably exacerbated the problem. It should be remembered that once manganese is inhaled - like aluminium and silver, etc - it does not need to travel to the lungs and cross into the blood, etc; it can be absorbed directly into the brain via the nasal-olfactory tract. I was then ushered
To the Ends of The Earth 4.
I did not sleep again during the night. The heavenly sunset of last evening had transformed into a hellfire night The mob violence escalated once again, as the night went on. A father had been charging around wielding a machete at anybody who got in his way. The problem had fired up from a feud with his son in law. More serious still, The police had also found an Aboriginal youngster unconscious and close to death this morning - he had been repeatedly cracked over the head with a shovel according to bystanders' reports. But unfortunately, the police find themselves unable to turn up until the next day , usually long after the incident has abated. Wise policy, given that there are only 12 of them stationed on this island to fend off a potential maximum of 900 aggressors on any one occasion ! When the police used to turn up it simply inflamed the situation - the officers just ended up being subjected to a totally uninhibited full frontal assault ; involving a diverse armoury of spears , machetes, gunfire and hatchets ! The miners had told me that if you intervene - much as I had felt compelled to do the other night - you get attacked yourself; not only by the aggressors but by those you are trying to protect. The well travelled Missionary's son, Craig, and his wife Linda, courageously live in a house in the middle of Angurugu . I find it unbelievable that they can carry on living here, incarcerating themselves behind a dense fortification of six tier barbed wire interwoven through chain link ; the perimeter being manned by skulking dobermanns 24 hours a day . Craig told me that Aboriginal communities are reputedly mildly aggressive, but that Angurugu is exclusively excessively aggressive. It demonstrates by far the most violent community in the whole of Australia; per violent incident per head of population. And furthermore, the type of violence here could be classed as a form of psychopathic insanity, particularly when it is exacerbated by alcoholic consumption. Its explosive said Craig, only just twenty but built like a tank. Your country got into all that namby-pamby, politically-correct judgemental criticism over the Duke of Edinburgh associating spears with Aboriginees, etc, but he was bloody right. I get a spear tossed at me once a week. You Pommies haven't got a clue. Its frontier stuff out here, buddy I feel that the unique exposure of this village population to an environment that probably carries the highest levels of manganese in the world ( 500,000 ppm in the manganese bedrock top soils) has a major part to play in the psychotic behaviour patterns of this community. Post mortems of the brains of miners who have died of chronic manganese induced neurodegenerative disorders have revealed widespread loss of serotonin receptors. Lack of serotonin has been well connected to the cause of bouts of impulsive,criminally insane, aggressive behaviour - an archetypal symptom of the manganese madness syndrome seen in miners the world over. Alcoholic consumption is also well known to trigger off unprovoked aggression / rage in those who are genetically predisposed to low serotonin turnover, thereby illustrating the devastating synergistic scenario once chronic manganese and alcoholic exposure are simultaneously unleashed. Since serotonin levels are under circadian regulation via the pineal gland , the characteristic drop in serotonin levels during nightime in relation to day , probably explains the somewhat unique cycle of nightime violence and daytime peace in this village. These eco-toxicological problems are further inflamed by the sheer multicomplexity of the subjective, political and vested interest pressures operating in the heartbeat of this community. They are so sensitively interwoven, that the overall position adopted - or lack of position -is highly insensitve to the health and well being of its people. Any resolutions to the problems have been stalemated by these conflicting interests, enabling the psycho-neuro problems of Angurugu to escalate to virtual crisis proportions. The village could suicide itself in the end. The stalwart presence of the Anglicare mission is the only oasis of hope and light. But a more objective third party needs to step in, to take the reins from the subtle autocracy of the mining corporation that has insidiously taken over from the vacuum of endemic Aboriginal anarchy that has long overuled this island. Whilst many of the Corporation's efforts to integrate with the Aboriginal community are highly admirable and unique as far as mining company trackrecords go - such as their immediate reafforestation of mined land with indigenous saplings - they are not equipped or indeed suitably skilled to deal with the escalating problems. Furthermore, would the Corporation ever be prepared to accept the responsibility for the health effects, which, at the very least, may well have been exacerbated by their very own mining activities - eg manganese
MARK PURDEY: Motivation to write faster! ;-)
Hi Gil, Yes, I think it is a brilliant idea to get this horor story out. But I am still writing it on a day to day basis as the events and research unfolds. I also want to be out of here before it becomes better publicised, because the repercussions for me could be lethal. The politics is very sensitive between the Mine corporation, the Aboriginal community, the miners union and the Mission. There is much conflict here, which becomes psychologically explosive at the slightest suggestion of something that threatens the aboriginal royalties from the mine - which supports the whole community here - if you can call it a community. I do not want my work to be responsible for lethal riots !!! Whilst I know that the manganese is killing them, they do not want this connection to threaten the one and only pillar of their economy - particularly the elders. The disease they are getting - eg the mangnaese intoxication - is conveniently scapegoated / discarded as a curse on those who develop the disease, even though most recognise the truth deep down when you talk to them. Can you just hold fire on taking it to the senator for the moment. It is so, so sensitive here and I do not want to blow my research boats by having something go out on the open public circuit which, for instance, unfairly criticises the Mission here - although i do not agree with some of their tactics in dealing with this horror story, they are overall doing an amazingly brave and heroic job- most of them and the care workers get attacked with spears, machettes, etc once in a while !! . So I better check my script in relation to what I say about the Mission ( I think I am abit cynical somewhere over their earlier work here ) before I say yes to you sending it out from an unprotected web site. Best Wishes, Mark Purdey.
MARK PURDEY: To the Ends of The Earth 111
To the Ends of the Earth 111. The next morning the veranda was packing up tight with the usual bustle of ataxic victims, care workers or simply aboriginal kiddies homing in to the centre for a focal place to gather at that time of day. A monster of a pick up truck pulled up in front of the Mission, and out stepped Dennis, a goliath-like, Apocalypse-now type of character who introduced himself as head of the local mineworker's Union. He was the sort of guy you'd expect to see bouncing at an LA night club rather than cruising around in this sort of outback terrain. But Dennis, had come to take me on a tour of the mines and surrounding area so I could get a broader range of soil and vegetation samples, etc, in areas other than just Angurugu. His interests lay with the fact that some of his white mining colleagues had also died of similar wasting type neurodegenerative diseases , or were just beginning to show the first symptoms of what they had considered to be manganese intoxication. Dennis himself was off work due to problems with gout and cardiac arrythmias. Gout is caused by a build up of urates in the system which commonly results from a breakdown in the enzymic regulation of the urea cycle and nitrogen metabolism. Interestingly, chronic manganese intoxication interfers with the enzyme arginase which plays a crucial role in this cycle, but since arginase is an enzyme that is normally activated by the manganese 2+ form, problems can still occur when a manganese intoxication involves a transformation of manganese 2+ into its 3+ form - a valency of manganese which fails to activate arginase into its fully fledged operational state. This can occur when those who have been intoxicated by manganese are concurrently exposed to devices that emit low frequencies of radiation - such a frequency being absorbed by the manganese which consequently oxidizes the metal into its 3+ reactive form. Dennis not only lived adjoining a low frequency radio emitting facility, but he also sat nextdoor to a low frequency radio phone system hooked up in his work cab. Intriguingly, Rudolf Steiner had proposed that the ox is driven mad when its brain is overloaded with urates ! The visionary had obviously focused into one of the metabolic derangements that was later to become part of the causal pathway in the pathogenesis of mad cow disease. I would totally agree with Steiner's insight that the build up of urates - one of several side effects resulting from manganese and oxidant intoxication - can induce a major facet of the pathogenesis of spongiform and other degenerative diseases. Dennis was no time waster, and I quickly found myself whisked away in his pick up truck into the remote outbacks of the rainforest. After a detour inspecting some aboriginal handprint rock art cast across the face of sandstone outcrops in the middle of the forest , we came to the sight of the former Emerald river mission . The old RAF runway was barely visible - a mere straight track of crumbling concrete that was becoming increasingly encroached by the stringy back teetree boughs. I pondered on some of the tense wartime dramas that must have occupied this space at one time, but it was too long gone now - the last ghosts of the dogfights fought with the Japs over the New Quinea jungle were long suffocated beneath the dense barricades of cycad and prickly pandanus leaves retrieving their native terrain. I stuck my sampling trowel into the former gardens of the Emerald mission - now a patch of rejuvinated forest. I was relieved that this ground was not such tough ground as that which I had sampled back at the Angurugu Mission gardens - where I had experienced great difficulty getting the trowel to penetrate the sharp topsoil that was intensively concentrated in manganese pesolites ( pebbles ). I also noticed that these samples were much lighter than the soil which I had drawn at Angurugu, again indicating the lower concentration of manganese metal in the soil. The analyses of these samples would no doubt confirm my suspicion that the neurological problems first began once these Aboriginal clans had moved from the Emerald River Mission into permanent residence at the most intensive manganese hotspot region of Groote - Angurugu. As we drove on to get to Mud Cod Bay - an area of seacoast that lay on the manganese bedrock platform - Dennis really started opening up about his interests in my whole investigation. He started talking about the strange psychiatric and neurological demise of some of his co workers in the mine. A guy called Monkey had started to experience completely unprovoked rage and aggression , as well as insomnia, tremors, depression, fatigue, cramps and unmotivated crying fits - the text book symptoms of mangnaese intoxication. Monkey had been invited to meet me at a party in the mining town of Alyangula that night. He had some interesting analytical data collected from some sampling of his blood, where
Fwd: FW: Organic gardener position
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:20:33 -0400 Subject: FW: Organic gardener position From: David Lillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] AB, Please forward as appropriate. DL -- From: Betsy Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Betsy Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:20:32 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: Organic gardener position - Original Message - From: Rose Cummins mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:29 AM Subject: Organic gardener position Dear Ms. Taylor, If you know of anyone who might be interested in this position, would you please have him/her get in touch with me? Thank you, Sister Rose Marie Cummins, St. Catharine, KY JOB DESCRIPTION for ORGANIC GARDENER This is a new position of the Dominican Earth Project at St. Catharine, KY. The duties include: 1. To help plan, sow, tend, harvest, and market crops from a new organic garden (one acre). 2. To help plan, sow, tend, harvest, and market crops from the childrens garden. 3. To develop and implement a curriculum for the childrens garden project. 4. To work alongside the gardeners who work in the Motherhouse garden to learn more about the needs of the Motherhouse and the gifts, challenges, and history of this place. 5. To establish ties in the tri-county areas to involve others in the garden for education, spiritual nourishment, and upkeep of the garden. 6. To be available to the staff at Sansbury for consultation on environmental and horticultural-related endeavors. 7. To keep people at the Motherhouse abreast of what is going on in the garden and to learn of their hopes and dreams for the earth. 8. To find ways to continue to build bridges with the college, farm, kitchen staff, local area residents, Sansbury and the Motherhouse in relation to food, agriculture, and the environment. QUALIFICATIONS: Formal education and three years experience in sustainable agriculture Ability to relate to a diverse population and to different ages Willingness to live and carry out the mission of the Earth Center and the Dominicans of St. Catharine, Kentucky Passion for community-building Openness to life-long learning about sustainability HOURS: 40 hours a week/12 months a year (+ Vacation and Benefits) RATE OF PAY: Negotiable
Fwd: Fw: Ifgene conference
Genetic Engineering and the Intrinsic Value and Integrity of Animals and Plants Wednesday 18th to Saturday 21st September 2002 Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK Speakers: *Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethicist, Department of Philosophy, Colorado State University *Donald Bruce, Church of Scotland Science Religion Technology Project *Craig Holdrege, Contextual Biologist, The Nature Institute, New York *Howard Davies, Theme Leader Genes to Products Scottish Crop Research Institute, Dundee *Ruth Richter, Plant Morphologist, Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, Goetheanum, Switzerland *Henk Verhoog, Bioethicist, Louis Bolk Instituut, Netherlands *Harry Griffin, Assistant Director (Science), Roslin Institute, Edinburgh *Timothy Brink, Development Manager, Demeter Standards UK *Mike Radford, Animal Welfare Lawyer, Department of Law, Aberdeen University *Christina Henatsch, Biodynamic Plant Breeder, Kultursaat, Germany *Ton Baars, Senior Scientist, Animal Husbandry, Louis Bolk Institute, Netherlands *Clive Spash, Socio-economist, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen *Bruce Whitelaw, Molecular Geneticist, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh *Johannes Wirz, Contextual Biologist, Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion, Goetheanum, Switzerland Workshop concept and aims For more than two decades public discussion of genetic engineering has been dominated by risk-benefit considerations. Arguments about its usefulness or its dangers for humans are traded even when the dialogue partners are starting from a stance which is already in principle for or against genetic engineering. Where do the living beings which are the focus of this technology stand in all this? To help us answer this question we shall place them at the centre of our workshop. Intrinsic value, the good of its own, of a creature is gaining recognition in law. Indeed the concept of the dignity of creation is incorporated in the Swiss constitution. In this conference we shall consider both plants and animals. Whilst giving moral consideration to plants seems controversial, the apparent closeness to humans of animals through their sentience and consciousness may make it easier for us to intuit their intrinsic value and to recognise their creature interests. Yet we exploit them just the same. Indeed, we are dependent on them for their products and the range of that dependence could be greatly extended by what genetic engineering already has to offer. How can we sharpen our awareness for their essential nature so that in evaluating the technology we guard against violations of their integrity? We will address this question helped by practical observation of plant and animal phenomena guided by scientists from several countries. We will approach the subject from the most varied angles by hearing presentations from ethicists, people engaged in plant and animal breeding and husbandry, molecular geneticists, an animal welfare lawyer, a socio-economist and biologists specialising in the context of life. In panel, plenum and breakout discussions we will deepen and challenge this wealth of experience and by drawing on the insights we come to during the workshop we will try to visualise perspectives and limitations of shaping the heritable constitution of animals and plants. It can be argued that overlooking aspects intrinsic to farm animals has led to the series of crises in UK agriculture over the past decade. This may be more than a hint to us that conceptually reducing animals to bioproduction mechanisms which can be optimised at the molecular level needs replacing by a science capable of understanding not only molecular and cellular form and function but also organismic and aesthetic qualities. This issue, one not just of epistemology but of actual laboratory experience, will be central to our discussions. Plant and Animal: Guided Observation Sessions Recognising the intrinsic value and integrity of living beings is greatly helped by direct observation. And observation skills can be schooled so to as to make this faculty of recognition all the more acute. The 2-hour sessions in the afternoons of 19th and 20th September will be led by scientists from UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and USA. Breakout Workshops 19th 20th September, 4.30-6.00 p.m. Discussion in much smaller groups to deepen some of the plenum themes and add others which are relevant. Led by speakers and other contributors attending the event. Panel Discussion, Friday 20th September, 7.30 p.m. Open to visitors attending for the evening. Led by panelists chosen from the plenum speakers. Contributions from the floor. Plenum Discussions Ifgene aims to provide an opportunity for developing viewpoints through dialogue. We have therefore scheduled a relatively large amount of time for this, including an hour of discussion on the closing day. The recent emergence of controversy about biotechnology in the public arena has triggered interest in new methodological approaches to the debate. In this workshop we
Fwd: re:learning to dowse
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re:learning to dowse To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allan, Please Fwd: Dear All, There is also a wonderful e-book on the avalon site by Tom Graves entitled Needles of Stone which is extremely interesting. At least from a BD point of view in understanding the ethers. Michael. This is a wonderful site. Thanks, Jane. Wayne and Sharon also. I enjoy and learn from your site. Also see Sid Logren's book at http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/spiritualdowsing.html namaste, Sarah jsherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joey Korn, a lovely guy and member of the Dowsers Society, is available to do one on one instruction as well as offering classes in different locations in the states. He did a presentation at one of Allan's Bd conferences, I believe two years ago or so. Missed him there, but I checked out his site, sent an email and arranged for a home visit when he was staying in Brooklyn a while back. He's a wonderful spirit, also got me Walt's book. His website is: http://www.dowsers.com/ Best, Jane - Original Message - From: Wayne and Sharon McEachern To: Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:35 AM Subject: Re: Learning to dowse Gil Robertson wrote: Hi! Lloyd, Thanks for posting that. It is probably the most used of that sort of thing. I think ! it could do with editing to a briefer item, but apart from that, it is fine. Gil Anyone wishing a bit of a shorter how-to on dowsing can also visit the Light Expression website at http://lightexpression.com/index2.htm and read instruction which was offered by a friend of ours -- then tuned to its finished state by Sharon and I. Wishing everyone well in their adventures Wayne *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Sharon and Wayne McEachern Expressing the Light __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Fwd: Recessive Spiral Pump
Status: U Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:58:35 -0400 From: Francesca Bertone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Recessive Spiral Pump Sender: Francesca Bertone [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Mr. Balliett, Thank you for your message. We are conducting prototype development on our pumps right now. Our company is a design and licensing firm, so we will not be building pumps. We will license manufacturers to build and market our products, and may be ready to license our pumps within six to twelve months. You can learn more about our products on our website, which will be up and running after April 20 at www.paxscientific.com. Thank you for your interest, Francesca Bertone President PAX Scientific, Inc. 93 Crestwood Drive San Rafael CA 94901-1149 415-453-0404415-454-6646 (fax) paxresearch @ compuserve.com Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Fwd: Re: Prep Questions!
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:02:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Prep Questions! To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Allan, Please Fwd: Dear Hugh, It sounds here as if the 508 is acting as a catalyst on the clay, pulling the alumina/silica into a cohesive whole onto the skin of the plant. Is this correct? Michael. Dear Wayne, 508 is a morning spray that tightens up the plant, and can be sprayed the morning after horn clay. It can stand to be balanced by 505 if you want the soil tightened up as well. Hugh HUgh -- what about 508 in the below sequence?? If it were added, where would it fit in? Thanks, Wayne __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/
Fwd: Fw: Optimum Tea
To: All concerned From: Jerry Brunetti I read your e-mail of 3/7/02 re: equisetum to create an optimum tea. How much dried horsetail per gallon of tea are you using? We have a 35 gallon tank and are including cereal straws and oak bark, as well as misc. sugars, starches, kelp, etc to also grow the bacteria. We are getting very good fungal counts, but Think much of that is from the fact that 1/3 of our compost is derived from composted deciduous leaves, bark and twigs. Where are you having your analysis done- at SFI? It's clear that straw, bark, and horsetail all have high levels of silica witch apparently suppresses/deters disease fungus, while simultaneously encouraging healthy fungus. Another example of Amphoteris forces at work.
Received 3/31/2002 Biodynamics #240
Biodynamics Journal March/April 2002 Number 240 Contents: The Future of Preparation Making in North America Charles Burkam The Widening of Man's Perception - A Lecture Given At Dornach, January 7,1923 Rudolf Steiner Challenged by the Future: Beyond Sustainability Gunther Hauk Understanding the Cow: Aspects Relating to the Nature of the Bovine Animal Hans Josef Cremer Bessie's Teachings at Aurora Farm Barbara M. V. Scott, MSc Coughing Calves Hubert Karrernan, VIVID Rhythm Replaces Power: Elemental Rain Dialogues, Part 2 Dennis Klocek Recommendations for Working with Crops Hugh Courtney Calendar of Events, Internships/Employment, and Opportunities Available Cover Photo: Rosebud by Woody Woodraska Biodynamic Journal is a bi-monthly publication for members of the U.S. Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Assoc. Inc., Building 10002B, Thoreau Center, The Presidio, POB 29135, San Francisco, CA 94129. A one year membership costs $45.
Unanticipated Blessing: The One-Straw Revolution On-line
Hello everyone, I have just uploaded to the files section of the group two electronic copies of Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution. One is a simple text file (232KB) that I believe all pcs and macs can handle (using notepad in windows), the other is in the pdf format (297KB) that helps retain layout features across platforms and is especially useful for printing (if you do not have a copy of the free pdf reader, then it can be downloaded from the makers, Adobe, at http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.) In working on this edition I have been aware throughout of Fukuoka's wish that only his latest work be published. However, despite inquiries in Japan about an English version of this last work (see previous emails forwarded by me to this list) and Robert's kind offer to have his Japanese copy published electronically, this work is, in reality, unavailable to us. The current copyright status of the Indian Editions of The One-Straw Revolution, The Natural Way of Farming and The Road Back to Nature is as influenced by the above wishes of Fukuoka's as is my electronic copy. However, I do not wish to compare editions, the Indian editions are by far the better form in which to have the work, especially as they have (if the introduction by Partap Aggarwal is accepted) the tacit approval of The Rodale Press. I recommend to everyone to buy Fukuoka's books (see previous email for detailed order instructions) I have pared the book to the words of Fukuoka alone; there is no Preface, Introduction or Translators Note: you will find no photos either (accepting the pdf version where I have retained the two Food Mandalas as they were pertinent to the text). This edition is not a rival to the book. It is intended to fill the interval between the intriguing references to Fukuoka (in Permaculture, organic farming, sustainable technologies etc) and the often lengthy (and outside this group little known) route necessary to purchase one of his books inspired by these references. It is intended to make Fukuoka present to the agricultural world in a way he has never been before. Finally, and legalistically, this is, nominally, a copyrighted text. Whilst I would ask everyone to distribute this work as widely as possible, to send it to friends, to put it up on their websites etc, it is necessary to be aware of this fact. For the reasons outlined above, I believe in disseminating Fukuoka's work we are achieving more than is presently being achieved with the status quo. Souscayrous Yahoo! Groups Sponsor -~-- Buy Stock for $4. No Minimums. FREE Money 2002. http://us.click.yahoo.com/BgmYkB/VovDAA/ySSFAA/bAOolB/TM -~-
FWD Re[2]: Testing preps?
__ Forward Header __ Subject: Re[2]: Testing preps? Author: Tobias Koenig at Yanco Date:3/20/02 4:20 PM For my part I would like to see 500 and BC tested Tobias __ Reply Separator _ Subject: Re: Testing preps? Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] at smtpgwy Date:3/19/02 2:14 PM On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Merla wrote: Bonnie, did you see Allan's email. He wants to test Pfeiffer Field Spray as #2, rather than BD 500. We need to agree. That's fine. I sent mine before his got to me. I have no knowledge of Pfeiffer sprays and such. That's why I asked for other input on this. I'm just doing what ya'll want me to. Not making the decisions and we're not sending it out today anyway. The final analysis will be made on what we all agree on. Bonnie
Fwd: Re:How to Grow Corn as a Soil Improvement Crop--
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:31:29 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:How to Grow Corn as a Soil Improvement Crop-- To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Allan, Please fwd; Dear Hugh, First of all, nice web site guy. I have a question. I'll try to phrase it correctly. Have you noticed any relationship between the actinomycetes and the corn plant? If so, which part of the plant and/or seed development do they play a role in? ... and which prep may be intrumental in the actinomycete encouragement? Thanks, Michael. How to Grow Corn as a Soil Improvement Crop Corn makes a lot of organic matter. It sucks in a lot of carbon dioxide and turns it into sugars, starches, cellulose, etc. Ideally corn feeds the soil microbes profusely from the breakdown of its cotyledon even before its leaf sworl breaks the surface. It seems to do this better when the soil is dryer at planting than if it is wet. Ideally one should plant several days after a rain rather than before a rain. Ever see where three, four or more corn seeds sprout close together? Usually the middle one or ones will be the most robust, even though it might seem they ought to be competing for nutrients and the middle one(s) should be short changed. But check it out. This is not the case because the soil food web is what really feeds the corn best and it will be cooking best in the middle of the cluster where the concentration of root exudates is highest. Which suggests it is a good idea to plant corn at a density of three to four seeds per foot rather than further apart if you want the corn to really get off to a killer start. Corn is set for how much it will make by about the time the sixth leaf node develops. That's still pretty small, probably under a foot high for almost all corns. So corn really has to get off to a good start if it is to make well. For sure it doesn't need any weed competition when it is just emerging, so again it does better in dryer plantings than where the moisture gets the weeds really going. But what can happen, and has happened frequently (not always) for me is the corn starts feeding the azotobacters (Pfeiffer isolated 54 strains in a sample he studied of horn manure) before it ever breaks the surface. The key is all those root exudates. If you sprout corn you have to rinse it about 5 times a day to keep it from souring. But in good soil the root exudates feed the soil food web, and right away nitrogen gets fixed and feeds amino acids to all the other microorganisms in the soil. This actually works best when soluble nitrogen levels are low in the soil, so if you expect this to work you sure don't want raw manure or tankage and you don't even want much if any compost. Azotobacters depend on adequate calcium levels, to say nothing of molybdenum and some of the other trace metals. And the soil should have good structure so it gets air but also has enough cation exchange capacity (mainly provided by clay and humus) to supply the necessary minerals for nitrogen fixation to occur robustly. If your soil isn't there yet you may have to grow a legume like soybeans first. In fact, I normally plant soybeans in the offsets between corn rows as insurance for poorer areas. As long as the corn plant keeps making sugars and translocating them to the soil (the role of boron and aluminum in clay) and shedding these carbonaceous root exudates into the soil food web feasting at its roots it will get a large proportion of its nitrogen requirement as amino acids excreted by the protozoans feasting on the nitrogen fixers and their kin. Because these excreta are right there along the roots and easily absorbed the plant has a strong tendency to take them up before they can oxidize to nitrates. Then the corn's protoplasm is rich and turgid instead of salty and watery, and the corn plant grows more robustly than it would be able to if was fed nitrogen fertilizers. And the corn quality is superb. The corn plant assembles this rich diet of amino acids directly into protein in its growing parts and builds its peptides, duplicates its DNA, grows like gangbusters and makes the soil rich without the application of fertilizers. I've estimated a robust, high population, open- pollenated corn/soybean planting of 12 feet height can add as much as half a percent organic matter to the soil in a single season. Of course, you want to have rich organizational patterns of energy in both the soil and atmosphere if you want this to work like gangbusters. (See my website, www.unionag.org for pictures.) In particular using the horn clay patterns in my broadcasters seems to have been the missing ingredient for this situation to occur. Since I started using horn clay the soil patterns of horn manure and the atmosphere patterns of horn silica have joined together to really turn corn into a high octane grower like a dragster running on aviation fuel. Great stuff. I'd sure like to see others duplicate my success with this. Horn clay seems to
NZ dissimination research report oganic soil management
Dear Organic Friends, The Research and Development Group of the Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Assn. has just finished a research report. The report reviews the research and research methodologies on organic soil management, particularly relating to pasture management and orcharding. Further more it provides references and contact addresses for persons interested in organic research and development. Attached is the summary of the report. The report can be obtained as a hard copy( contact) or you can visit the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening website at www.biodynamic.org.nz. We would like to present and discuss the report with all interested groups. For this matter we are organising various meetings throughout the country through our local branches. Since we are aware of other potentially interested groups we would like to find out if you and your members are interested in organising an event around the report. The Research and Development Group is more then willing to discuss the findings with all interested stakeholders. So please do not hesitate to contact us. With kind regards, Frank van Steensel (M.Ag.Sc., B.Ag/Hort) Research Manager of the Research and Development Group of the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening ass. Name: Research Report Summary (1).doc Part 1.2 Type: application/msword Encoding: base64
Re: Slash and Burn (from Chris Shade)
Hey Allan, No, I have been pretty busy and only loosely following things. I only opened your e-mail because of the subject line (I didn't realize it was to me and not the list). Yes, there is something to ashes. In a rodale study (that was never published and I found buried in some archives), they made a buch of compost piles with different amendments, including rock phosphates, Pfeiffer starter, wood ash and a few other things. They noted that no pile finished any earlier than the others, but didn't make much mention of the final NPK analyses, which were rather remarkable. Most of the piles hovered around 1-1-1 to 2-2-2, BUT the Pfeiffer pile was like 1-2-10 (nothing strange about 10, eh?) and the wood ash pile was like 1-6-2. So lets back up here...the piles with added Rock phosphate were barely up from the rest while the pile with the added K (wood ash) had soaring P and the pile with added critters and preps (you might think N) had a soaring K [note: A Biodynamic Book of Moons - my favorite for the alchemic notation - places K as the Sal or BD500 nutrient element (makes roots and heavy stalks and such)and P as the sulph or fire element]. So it seems that the ash somehow stimulates the fire element. This is also seen if you put some freshly burned wood ash on hot peppers or tomatoes - the ripen quickly and thoroughly and the peppers are searing like coals. On a more mundane level, all of those nutrients, mostly mineral elements, are rapidly realeased to the soils as soluble salts rather than their slow mineralization through biotic/humic channels. Cheers, Chris Chris goes on: I imagine that the issue is like any other - unshakeable doctrine is foolish and there may be reasons to do things like slash and burn sometimes. A fire brings new life to a forest at the same time that is destroys old life. The issue of whether burned things (ash) are good for the soil is pretty straight forward - yes, generally, unless you have a salinity or alkalinity problem). Whether or not to slash and burn versus just applying wood ash is another. My immediate intuition is that it is probably a good thing once in awhile, if not more often. Of course you would want to do something to perk the microbes back up after the cooking, but it shouldn't be hard. As far as the Rodale study, they seemed to do everything pretty much by the book - the main ingredients were all from the same big piles, the only difference being the extra amendments added. They seemed to be pretty sciency folks from the way it read. I sure wish I could find the thing, but I have looked and do not have it. Chris Shade
James DeMeo on Croft type devices
Allan, A friend in Namibia informed me that Croft was there in January, and gave a lecture, after which he set up six of his devices, which were then put into use on a non-stop basis. They did not have any rain afterward for two months, until several persons I know who asked me about it, then took my advise and informed that group. All but two of them took down their devices, and rains resumed. One woman informed me the rains returned later on the very day she took it down. The same thing is slowly occurring here on the West Coast, where I've had maybe 10 inquiries by persons connected with the Croft group. Based upon my recommendation, they stopped using them, or restricted use to only short applications, and have started to read Reich's materials for information on atmospheric energy. Whether these things will have a permanent or short-term effect, I cannot say. Another lesser-known principle in orgone biophysics is that the energetic excitation tends to reduce over time, so that if a person is chronically over-exciting the atmosphere, the atmosphere becomes less and less responsive. Which is why iron pilings and other pipes stuck into the ground for building constructions, piers, and so forth, will only have a temporary effect at best. Nobody who knows about Reich's cloudbusting method uses them for more than a few hours or days at best (and then, only in hard desert regions). Sometimes, a few minutes of work will created the desired changes. I think, to inform people that prolonged use of any clb-type device can push the atmosphere towards a drying-drought tendency, even as a chembuster, is a good start. No farmer who puts one of these things up will leave it up if he perceives the rains are diminishing -- and so all you have to do is point that out to them, to watch for that effect. Secondly, I encourage people to have a more critical view of the claims of the chembuster conspiracy enthusiasts. We hear a lot about questioning authority, which is healthy, but the same thing applies to all the conspiracy stuff. Keeping an open mind, but retaining some honest skepticism for unproven things is a helpful tool, and should not be confused with irrational or destructive skepticism as with CSICOP. The photos I've seen published in the chemtrail books and websites look like ordinary jet contrails to me, something I've seen since the 1970s in fact, which is around the time when I started looking at the sky in a systematic and serious manner. There are meteorologists who were studying this phenomenon, and the tendency of jet contrails to spread widely under some circumstances, as a possible factor in climate change (it would reduce sunlight, for example). So it is not as if this issue has gone unstudied from the classical perspective. Again, Reich argued the presence of firm jet contrails was an indication that the atmospheric energy had the capacity to hold together clouds, and so he considered it a good sign for rains. This is obvious, as a completely cloud-free sky won't provide any rain.Some of the chem-trial photos show thin clouds spread more diffuse and widespread across the atmosphere, and these could be the consequence of typical desert-haze dor, as described by Reich, but they originate from nearby desert regions. Sometimes, over cities, they are injected with all kinds of urban pollutants, but their basic nature is desert-derived. One of the findings I've made, and documented over the last 15 years, is the movement of dor-haze from the deserts of Asia into the USA. The classical meteorologists speak about these trans-oceanic air mass movements as the effects of desert dust, and there is considerable dust particles in them -- but also dorish qualities to the life energy. There was a big dust storm to hit the west coast in April of last year, and it came from Asia. I've seen the satellite images, and there is no question about its source region, in the Gobi region of China. It crossed the Pacific, and then dumped on California. We also got some of it here as well. The sky turned a milky-white at low altitudes, with a thin haze layer at high altitudes, and it persisted for weeks. If they would blame that kind of phenomenon on the UN and New World Order, the US military and so forth, then it would only be a proof of paranoid thinking. Yes, it would be the product of desertification in China, but not because of evil people in Washington DC, or the Pentagon. Since the clay particles from desert dusts is high in both iron and aluminum content, this might also explain some of the metal chemistry attributed to chemtrails -- though some stuff coming down from the sky may well be part of cloudseeding experiments. I won't discount all of the chemtrail theory, but simply note that what I have seen suggests much of it, perhaps most of it, is people getting very alarmed over things that are more simply explained, and blaming their health problems in direction away from their own
re:Pfeiffer Field Sprays
(from Michael Smith) Dear Allan, I have the impression the the Pfeiffer field spray may be a combination of 500/BC in some form since it is denoted for its' digestive ability. As a spring plowdown spray, it may be a little out of season and release CO2 back to atmosphere when we should be concerned with the soil air(CO2) conservation for the growing season. In order to keep the biological activity in the soil, I would think about following this up with a clay spray, since it has been noticed that microbial activity seems to gather around the clay molecule by Coleman and others. Michael. Merla's situation reminds me of an older topic: Has anyone used the Pfeiffer Field Sprays in the last 5 years or so and what have their result been? I have a unit here for using after rye plow down this spring. That seems like a very appropriate use for it. What about other uses and users? Thanks -Allan __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: BDNOW digest 1064
OH MY GOSH! Did Cheryl tell you she operates this list! tch! tch! I'll take care of this, as usual -Allan
Jean Pain + Lemieux: bacterial vs fungal composting
From the Permaculture list Status: U From: souscayrous [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [permaculture] Jean Pain + Brushwood + Biogas + Compost X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-BeenThere: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Help: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=help List-Post: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] List-Subscribe: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=subscribe List-Id: Permaculture permaculture.lists.ibiblio.org List-Unsubscribe: http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/permaculture/ Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:41:12 +0100 Steve, thank you, excellent sources as always. In a discussion of the Fukuoka Farming list at Yahoo Groups the connection was also made between Jean Pain and the intriguing work of Lemieux at Laval. The essential difference between them being the actual breakdown of the woody matter: Jean Pain used the traditional thermophyllic breakdown of any compost pile (bacterial) while Lemieux suggests that the breakdown of his ramial wood chips should be by basidiomycetes - white rot (fungal). Why the difference? Lemieux makes the claim that fungal breakdown of wood produces upto 50% more humus (humic acid) than does bacteriological breakdown, due to chemical nature of the breakdown of the lignin, unassisted by heat. For anyone who has not yet seen Lemieux's work, I recommend it highly, http://www.sbf.ulaval.ca/brf there is much in English amongst the French. The underlying premise of Lemieux's work is that all fertile soil comes originally from climax hardwood forests and that without renewal of climax hardwood breakdown products this soil will eventually become exhausted. A salutary reminder that although humic acid is an extremely persistent molecule, it does eventually degrade to leave the soil practically worthless for crops (before nature returns with its plant successions, until, hundreds or thousands of years later, the soil has again been recovered by hardwood forests). Jean Pain and Gilles Lemieux both have important things to say, not the least of which is to concentrate our minds on building soil and not producing crops (the latter being simply the product of the former and never the reverse). In reference to Jean Pain's biogas work, contact me off list if you would like more information [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if anybody has any sources of further information on the Templar origins of Jean Pain's work I would be grateful. Souscayrous -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Steve Diver Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 12:58 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [permaculture] Jean Pain + Brushwood + Biogas + Compost The Jean Pain method came up; i.e., using chopped brushwood to generate biogas and/or to wrap water pipes around a very *large* brushwood pile for the purpose of capturing heat from thermophyllic composting (for example, to distribute hot water through hydronic tubing in greenhouse production beds in association with rootzone heating). An interesting parallel to the Jean Pain method is the Ramial wood chip mulching work at Laval University in Quebec. Several years ago a farmer here in the Ozarks imported a special brushwood chipper to generate mulch for their organic orchard / farm. I talked to them last year and they said they love the benefits of the brushwood mulch, but it is a lot of labor to cut enough brushwood and chip the material to generate the bulk quantities of mulch needed each spring, coming also at a time when the farm is really busy. Here are some web notes I collected May 2001 on the Jean Pain method. Jean Pain resources, 5-11-01 http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/archives/humus/jean-pain-notes.txt There's some interesting material on Jean Pain + brushwood + humus in these notes. A tale unfolds where Jean Pain got his idea on brushwood mulch from medieval templar monks, who understood humus at a deep level centuries before the Industrial Revolution racheted things out of whack The Le Jardinage Naturel material looked pretty good, and worth re-exploring, but that link now appears to be gone like an Internet memory; though Google has a cache page which you can access for a glimpse. Steve Diver ___ permaculture mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture ___ permaculture mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/permaculture
re: 9/11: That Makes at Least Two of Us...
Hello Allan, Please Fwd: I hope this offends no one, but I went looking for America long ago Where did it go? Who took it? I am deeply saddened The Attorney General recently covered up a statue of Lady Justice showing her bosom as if to underscore there is no danger of justice exposing herself at this time, before this administration This has to do with a group of individuals who want nothing to do with the milk of human justice Michael
Fwd: Re: Electronics and cancer
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:28:30 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Electronics and cancer To: Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Allan, Please Fwd: Tom, This is one thing that I have absolutely no comprehension on. I understand that HAARP has been related to a form of Tesla Technology. However, Tesla fought Hertz tooth and nail over the wave theory. Tesla believed that the wave idea was totally a product of university system thinking and had nothing to do with the nature of the physics.(Remember it was with the insistance of that same system that Professors declared that Alternating Current was an impossibility!) Only when Tesla presented an item hard for students to understand would he bring an analogy relative to water to mind. But this was only for the purposes of presenting the concept. Now what do we do when the analogy becomes the reason and the idea? Yeech! Tesla also stressed that the actual working of the nature of these devices he built was not so much based upon the the nature of the materials themselves, but that the flow was based totally upon the proportion and arrangement of their spacial natures. What happens when the analogy becomes the concrete idea that a technology is built on rather that the understanding that it is an allusion designed to teach novices the behaviour of things that can't be seen with the naked eye? Then as well as not having full comprehension of the immaterial, we become exposed to the reflux of the very things we cannot see and are experimenting around in the dark. In other words we then have no measuring tool and cannot measure these other reactions. My argument is not necessarily with what you say here Tom, but with a decending left hand vortex of people who are experimenting with things they have no knowledge of but go ahead because the get what they want. Tesla spent a large degree of his energy attempting to clearly demonstrate both physically and mathmatically the actual phenomena behind the reactions - to clear up the mathmatical hack jobs that the modern university created while sitting in their ivory towers of babel based totally on mathmatical mechanics. By having some of Tesla's ideas while dis-requarding the warnings of the person who showed that these phenomena were possible is an act of suicide. It would have clearly been better if he would have told them nothing and created his own following leaving the authorities in the dark. However, now they have half and choose not to employ the disipline that went with it. Michael. Markess, this leads us right back to weather control. T. Bearden claims the KGB has been using scalar beams to mess with the weather since the 1950s. They were way ahead of us in HAARP type technology using Long Waves, and according to Bearden they have created some destructive weather phenomena in the west as part of their testing programs. I'd like to know a bit about W. Reich's experiments from some of the experts out there. Are waves involved in Reich's weather work with orgone or is this something altogether different? If there are waves involved what frequencies are we talking about? Are etheric forces waveless and without particles since they are really not material forces? I need a little basic education here. - Thanks, Tom __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball http://sports.yahoo.com
MARK PURDEY: Unresolved Questions and Agent Provocatuers
Hi Geoff, Thanks for your respect. Weirdly, the popular media seemed much more interested in my work before I had amassed hard scientific evidence and trekked off on my exciting global eco-detective escapades. I find this strange because global treks and successful experiments are far more appealing from a journalistic perspective than a mere farmer's theory - as it was in the early days !! Well, from having very good press in the early days, I then started to get some slightly negative publicity once the labour government got into power in the UK ( strange !! ), so I have virtually concentrated on making good progress in my field and lab research projects since then and forgotten about popular media, concentrating on getting published in science journals, etc. However, there has been some very, very misrepresentative stuff going out in the UK media about my work so I am looking for someone to run a good solid update piece which opens up the dialogue again. The current UK public misconception being that my theory is no longer being discussed because it is flawed - because some medical spin docter hack from the Times or Telegraph has mislead the nation by publishing some unilateral ministerial diktat on my work without ever consulting my side of the story. But the irony is that the reality surrounding the current credibility status of my work is that it is now supported by much positive experimental data from around the world - but nobody knows this - I am just crucified in the nationals as the crank with the theory that was disproven (but the journalists have to change my theory in order to achieve that position . Or perhaps more accurately, the hard pressed conveyor belt journalists are fed the government press releases or contrived leaks which they don't want to question or counter / rock the boat because they do not want to upset the people on whom they depend the flow of daily stories for them !! ). Basically, I am trying to get publishers interested in a book that I will write which builds up this scientific discovery ( I do not want to sound vain here !! ) through a colourful and creative format of my eco-detective journey around the world, inclusive of all the amazing on the ground people I have met on route who have helped me forge the milestones of my mission, etc. They will get the credit for this discovery, not the armada of bowtied golfing professors who cruise around from conference to conference on multinational money , donkeybacking their students' s every creative leap,etc. I also think there is room for another good film , or good impartial feature article which charters my research tour planned for this coming year, where I am sampling in three TSE cluster areas and one TSE-free location ( of close characteristics to the TSE regions ) across the USA (from mid April ), doing research on Japanese BSE farms and with the Australian Aboriginees on this Mn contaminated island, etc Hope this explains my current predicament re publicity. In a nutshell, I only consider that respectable bursts of publicity in the media are worth while putting effort into, thus I no longer prostitute myself to the quick fix news flashes - they are just not worth the grief of the inevitable misrepresentation - the energy is better spent on research or better still , one's family...who I try not to forget about,,, they have tolerated so much grief !! Best, Mark
Fwd: Re: Healing
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:27:40 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Thomas Schley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Healing Cc: Bcc: X-Attachments: Dear Sherry, et al, Has anyone had any experience with or heard of any successful experiences using Machaelle Small Wright's MAP (Co-Creative White Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program)? -Tom
Mark Purdey: Origins of Spongiform Disease Pt1
More on Mad Cow and related ailments at www.purdeyenvironment.com EDUCATING RIDA (Rida is the Icelandic for transmissible spongiform disease) - An underground scientific journey into the origins of spongiform disease. by Mark Purdey. Background. Since 1986, the infamous novel neurodegenerative syndrome , BSE and vCJD , has insidiously blighted the heartbeat of British Agriculture. The disease has annihilated thousands of cattle and a growing number of young people, as well as creating a fierce battleground between nations, vested interests, political parties, farmers, victims and consumers. But despite the severity of the BSE legacy , little genuine attempt has been made to crack the causal riddle of these diseases; thereby leaving us devoid of insight into measures that would best cure, control and , better still, prevent this disease. But this story shines a ray of light over the whole debacle. It charters the eco-detective escapades of maverick farmer / researcher Mark Purdey and his original field investigation which ran in tandem with the laboratory quest of Cambridge biochemist Dr David Brown to unearth the truth underpinning the original cause of these grotesque diseases. Hard evidence so far amassed by Brown and Purdeyís research indicates that vCJD and BSE could both result from separate exposure of bovines and humans to the same set of toxic environmental factors; and not from the ingestion of the one by the other. If such a notion continues to accumulate momentum, a radical upheaval of the status quo mindset can be expected. Despite their appealing story of discovery generated from the combined, lateral perspectives of field and laboratory studies, their published works have largely been dismissed and funding proposals irrationally rebuffed at peer review. Contrary to the recommendations to UK government by the 1999 BSE Inquiry report, rejection of Brown and Purdeyís various proposals continues to present day, including one submission aimed at developing a feasible cure for vCJD ! The Lone Voyager Mark Purdey first came to the fore when he successfully quashed the UK governmentís compulsory warble fly eradication regime in the high courts in 1984. This exempted him from treating his dairy herd with a systemic organo phosphorus (OP) insecticide - a toxic chemical which, amongst a myriad of toxicological effects, disturbs the crucial balance of metals in the brain. Purdey was therefore not surprised to witness BSE rearing its ugly head in the UK cattle herd in 1986; which, in his opinion, was a direct legacy of the UK governmentís warble fly mandate that enforced exclusively high doses of systemic OP insecticide in relation to the few countries who used this type of insecticide abroad. Purdey was a working dairy farmer with first hand experience of BSE erupting in cattle that had been purchased into his organic farm. He was struck by the fact that no cases of BSE had ever emerged in home reared cows on fully converted organic farms, despite those cattle having been permitted access to the feed that contained the meat and bone meal (MBM) ingredient - as part of their 20% conventional feedingstuff allowance decreed in the organic standards. From then on, Purdey became deeply sceptical of the conventional consensus on the origins of BSE and its human equivalent vCJD. There were just too many radical flaws blighting the hypothesis that bovine ingestion of micro doses of scrapie contaminated MBM lead to BSE; equally flawed was the follow up theory that human ingestion of BSE contaminated beef caused vCJD. The Flaws in the Conventional Hypothesis. Purdey cites the following flaws which indicate that MBM / BSE beef could not have served as the all-important single causal factor in the origins of BSE/vCJD; 1. Thousands of tons of the incriminated MBM feed was exported for cattle feed during the 1970s/1980s to countries that have remained BSE-free to date. - eg, South Africa, Sweden, Eastern Europe, Middle East, Third World, etc. NB; MBM was exported in straight form or as an ingredient of compounded concentrated feed pellets. 2. Changes in the temperature / manufacturing techniques of the MBM rendering process in the UK were blamed for permitting the survival of the scrapie agent in dead sheepsí brain, enabling the ìagentî to jump across into cattle, thereby producing BSE. Yet in scrapie endemic countries, such as USA and Scandinavea, the exact same continuous flow system of rendering was adopted five years before the UK, yet these countries remained BSE-free. 3. Several US trials failed to invoke BSE in cattle after feeding/injecting them with massive doses of scrapie contaminated brain tissue. 4. Forty thousand plus cows that were born after the UKís 1988 ban on MBM inclusion in cattle feed have still developed BSE. Furthermore, a small number of cows born after the further additional 1996 ban on MBM
Mark Purdey: Origins of Spongiform Disease Pt2
Daylight on TSEs - the deadly oxidative connection unleashed. But each time Purdey's trek took him to a newTSE hotspot, he found himself face to face with the same type of high altitude, snow covered terrain. But this common geographical association with TSEclusters continued to baffle him; each time recounting the memory of his first glimpse of chronic wasting countryside of deer and elk - the snow peaked Rocky Mountains sawtoothing the july skyline beyond the Denver Plain. But after arriving at the Calabrian village where 20 cases of CJD have emerged since 1995, the relevance of this geographical connection to TSE finally gelled. The houses in this village were newly constructed out of hideous bright white concrete sections - unusual for this area. All were couched within a parched, glaring landscape of bare white sandstone, producing all the criteria required for a most intensive ultra violet (UV) hotspot location; immediately connecting Purdey to the well recognised ëhigh UVí nature of high altitude, snow covered terrain which he found in common in the Icelandic, Colorado, Slovak clusters, etc, that he had surveyed. The UV prerequisite also explained other missing links in the science of traditional TSEs - such as the way in which initial pathological damage of TSE manifests itself within the retina or the eyelid or skin. Plus the fact that the normal , healthy form of copper bound prion protein is located in the pathways which coduct the electromagnetic energy of ultraviolet light around the brain - eg , the retina, pineal gland , visual cortex, hypothalamus, pituitary, brain stem, etc. Prion protein is also found in other areas of the body which are involved in the conduction of electromagnetic energy; for instance around glial cells and proliferating cells involved in the growth and repair of some tissues. In this respect, it could be said that the discovery of the prion protein may turn out to give scientific substance to the existance of the electromagnetic meridians recognised by Chinese medicine - where the healthy copper prion maintains the electro-homeostatis along the meridians. The fact that copper has an industrial use for conducting electricity in wiring and manganese has a use for storing electricity in batteries / Light bulb filaments elucidates a possible explanation for the cause of prion diseases; whereby the healthy copper prion continues to conduct the vital energy of sunlight along the circadian pathways in the brain to propel the sleep. sex, behavioural cycles,etc., whilst the unhealthy manganese contaminated prion serves to blockade and store up that UV energy to a critical flash point level ; where cluster bombs of free radical neurodegerative chain reactions are forced to burst forth . Could the oxidizing impact of UV at the retina convert the accumulated store of manganese ( both manganese and prion protein tend to accumulate in the retina ) from its innocuous manganese 2+ antioxidant form into its lethal manganese 3+ prooxidant form ? So any manganese that is abnormally attached to the prion protein in the retina finds itself switched from a safe to lethal form. Does the oxidising effects of UV therefore serve to unleash a lethal ë Dr jekyll and hydeí like property of the prion protein, which, in turn, kicks off a whole chain reaction of free radical mediated assault on the central nerves ? A neurodegenerative ëmelt downí of neurones proliferates, and TSE ensues. This has explained the genesis of the traditional strains of TSE, but what about the causes of the much more aggressive modern day strains of TSE ( BSE, vCJD ) surfacing in younger mammals. Perhaps these could result from our increased modern day exposure to the more potent oxidizing effects of a cocktail of man made agents which penetrate the central nerves - such as the systemic organophosphates (head lice shampoos, warblecides, etc ), radar, ozone, increasing UV due to stratospheric ozone depletion, microwave mobile phones, Concordeís supersonic waves-,thereby serving as the lethal oxidative triggers which produce a more virulent, accelerated version of TSE with full blown symptoms erupting in much younger mammals than normal. TSEs could therefore be viewed as diseases that result from a breakdown of oxidative homeostatis within the organism ; where TSE susceptible mammals living in environments characterised by high intensities of manganese and oxidising agents and by low levels of antioxidant metals (Copper/ selenium/ zinc ) combine to create circumstances where the central nerves are hyperoxidized - thereby kicking off a free radical chain reaction that can proliferate in the absence of antioxidant defence The pattern of emergence of traditional and new variant CJD clusters in rural/coastal as opposed to urban areas substantiates this idea, as well as helping to dispel the myth that vCJD arises from ingestion of BSE affected beef
FWD: Belated Groundhog and Mustard Musings from Jim Duke
Mustard Musings I'm starting the New Year in a new way. I'm auditing the opening classes of the new school in town, The Tai Sophia Institute of Herbal Healing, offering a Master's Degree therein. Got back in town from Peru in time to attend a potluck dinner welcoming the new faculty and the first crop of ten promising students. I brought my vegetarian lentil soup, described in an earlier lentil newletters. I almost always add a dash of several of the pungent spices to most of my soups, black pepper, capsicum, garlic, ginger, mustard, onion, and turmeric, in a sense making many of the antiarthrtic phytochemicals including the COX-2- inhibitor curcumin more readily available. Yes, now that I am no longer employed by the Herb Industry, I am leaning more and more towards food farmacy, at the same time as the press is scaring the pants off the public with frightening stories of herb/drug interactions. They fail to tell us that herbs kill fewer than 100 Americans a year (usually those who are abusing the herb) while prescribed pharmaceuticals kill more than 100,000 Americans a year. And they fail to tell us, as did NBC TV News Jan 29, 2002, that 9 million Americans, including one of the President's close relatives, are abusing prescription pharmaceuticals. I'm auditing these classes because I am very keen that this first Master's Degree Program in Herbal Healing succeed. I'm auditing so that when my classes come up, I can relate my lectures to the lectures the students have already heard or will be hearing, from such luminaries as 7-Song, Soaring Bear, Kerry Bone, Steve Dentali, Mary Enig, Kathe Koumoutsias, Jacqueline Krikorian, Kathleen Maier, Simon Mills, Rachel Pritzker, Aviva Romm, Lynn Schumake, James Snow, Kevin Spellman, Claudia Wingo, David Winston, and Tom Wolfe. It's been a great pleasure listening to Simon Mills pivotal openings lectures on the Six Tastes, in which he first covered the pungent compounds,which have triggered this issue of my newsletter. In their book, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, used as a text in the Tai Sophia Program, Mills and Bone (2000) note that most, if not all, members of the mustard family contain glucosinolates (sulfur and nitrogen-containing compounds, which though not pungent in themselves are responsible for the pungency). When a glucosinolate comes in contact with the enzyme myrosinase, located in different parts of the cells of most mustyard relatives, the glucosiniolate is enzymatically converted into the pungent (and corrosive) isothiocyanate. Mustard compresses are still widely used in Europe for bronchial troubles and chronic inflammatory diseases. The mucolytic activities of the hot compounds could be useful in many inflammatory conditions. Glucosinolates and/or their breakdown products have long been known for their allelopathic, bactericidal, fungicidal, and nematicidal properties and lately cancer chemoprevention: GLUCOSINOLATE: \Anticancer PC56:5; \Antiseptic PC56:5; Antithyroid NIG;\Bactericide PC56:5; \Chemopreventive PC56:5; \Fungicide PC56:5; \Nematicide PC56:5; And here's what my database says about isothiocyanates, not surprising since the glucosinolates, when enzymatically altered by myrosinase, form isothiocyanates: *ISOTHIOCYANATE: Anticancer PC56:5; Antiseptic MAB; Antithyroid NIG; Antitumor MAB; Bactericide MAB; Chemopreventive MAB; Fungicide MAB; Hypotensive; Goitrogenic MAB; 450- Inhibitor X11506821 ; Mucolytic MAB; \Nematicide PC56:5; Respiradepressant; LD50=120 Most interesting to me in Mill's lecture was his description of a British mustard handbath for digital arthritis or arthritis of the hand. Simply put some dry powered mustard into a pan of hot water. Then immerse your hands for a few minute. Deep penetrating action detoxifies, apparently. It's certainly worth a try. How well I remember my mothers last ten years. Both of her hands were almost locked uinto the curved position by what I assume was arthritis. And every time my hands lock up due to too much garden work, I fear that I'll suffer the same fate. But, taking command, I get on my exercise bike, get those dumbells, peddling as I exercise the very muscles that are tending to cramp up. I believe the rheumatologists when they say that one of the best things for arthritis is exercise. And if I find them locking up on me rheumatically, I may use some powdered mustard in a handbath. Or maybe I'll cook up a big batch of mustard greens, with black pepper, capsaicin, curry, garlic, and onion, and drink half the potlikker and steep my hands in the other half. (making it even more potent by psiking with horseradish or wasabi.. But now, let me warn you, as Simon Mill skillfully warned his audience. Appropriately used, these can be very good phytomedicines. But overdo it, and you're in trouble. These compounds are corrosive and will cause blisters (sometimes desired by some healers, if not their patients). And while normal doses will prevent cancer, this does not mean
Fwd: Demeter Non-Profit - Not!
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:13:06 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Demeter Non-Profit - Not! Dear Allan and All Listmembers, On Saturday, I received in the mail a copy of THE VOICE OF DEMETER, ISSUE NO. 15, WINTER 2002. On the back cover is a plea for money under the title BECOME A FRIEND. I direct your attention to the opening statement, which says, and I quote: Become a friend of Demeter and join the circle of supporting members. The Demeter Association, Inc. is a national, independent, non-profit, corporation . . . Wait just a minute. Non-profit? I have a letter in my possession on Demeter letterhead, written and signed by Anne Mendenhall explaining to me that I could neither ask for nor receive copies of Demeter's 990 IRS filings because Demeter Association, Inc. not registered by the IRS as a 401(c)(3) non-profit corporation. So here's the dirty little secret that they don't tell unsuspecting people who contribute money to their organization. Demeter Association, Inc. was incorporated in Massachusetts as a corporation that intended to become a non-profit organization. According to the officials with whom I spoke in the department of the Secretary of State in Massachusetts, Demeter Association, Inc. never applied for tax exempt non-profit status in Massachusetts. When I inquired whether or not they enjoyed tax exempt status in the State of New York where their offices are located, again I was told that they do not have tax exempt non-profit status. And, when I checked with the IRS, they told me that Demeter does not have federal tax exempt non-profit status either. That would be 401(c)(3) designation. Well. Isn't this interesting? I would recommend that anyone who becomes a Friend of Demeter demand a copy of the IRS papers granting the company current federal tax exempt non-profit status or the contributor can't deduct it on their personal or company income tax. Then I'd make some serious inquiries with Demeter and the BDA since them support Demeter financially. SCREAM! Am I the only one in the whole damn UNIVERSE who cares that Anne Mendenhall and Demeter look like they're running a scam? Is there anyone out there who cares that it looks like they're committing fraud in the name of biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner? Are the people on this list so frickin' apathetic that they don't give a crap that when Demeter does something that has all the appearances of being fraudulent and unethical, it smears anyone and everyone who calls what they do biodynamic? I'd like to know where the BDA stands on this. Let's see the proof, Anne. Let's see the proof, Chuck. If you've got it, so be it. If you don't, you should tell your members, subscribers and those whom you certify that you lied. How about it all you Demeter/Aurora Organic certified farmers, winemakers,breadmakers, vegetable growers, coffee growers, herbalists, flower growers and vineyard owners? Ask Mendenhall for proof. Put it up on the web. Let everyone see it. Prove me wrong. NO ONE IS NON-PROFIT UNLESS THEY ARE GRANTED THAT STATUS BY THE IRS AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE STATE IN WHICH THEY OPERATE. Period. Anything else is fraud. I, for one, am appalled, but not surprised. Greg Willis
Fwd: Agri-Synthesis® Remedies Tested At UAI
Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:21:54 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Lorraine Cahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Agri-Synthesis® Remedies Tested At UAI Allan, One last time, please post this. Thanks Lorraine Cahill has tested my field sprays as a third party, independent tester. Everything she applied my AgriSynthesis® Field Sprays and Food Sprays to came up 360 or better which translates as perfect balance, to quote Lorraine. In other words, no matter what she tried them on, they raised the life force and the balance to a level she considers perfect. On direct testing of my field spray concentrates, she tested them as high as 2,160 or SIX times around the wheel. I'd like to see someone top THAT! Agri-Synthesis® Remedies work because they're full of life. When sprayed on food, you get all the biodynamic taste without the biodynamic hassle. They work instantly and the change is permanent. I'm not afraid to have my remedies publicly tested by an uninterested third party. When will JPI get theirs tested? When will Harold Hoven at BDANC? What about Hugh Lovel's remedies? When will all the other prep makers in the US and Canada send theirs to Lorraine to be tested. She's the best at this. I would think they would be proud to get them tested. I would think that they would be anxious to know whether or not their remedies worked as well as they should. Greg
Re: companion planting
Dear Dan and Laurel, Especially for the leaf cutter ants spraying with chilli or soap would not help. A simple method can be adopted looking into the region i.e heavy rainfall. Collect sufficient ants and crush them. Put about 5-10 grams of crushed ants in small shallow tumblers with about 50 ml water. Keep a few tumblers in the garden. On a less rainy day you can even spray this solution at 5-7% concentration on the rose plants. Kindly standardize the concentration that suits your area.You can see the magic works. The reason is that when you catch the ants and crush the ants release alarm pheromones which repel the other ants. If you can have a spray all over the garden on a rainless day the results would be very interesting. We have tried in some of our projects to manage some insect pests. Kindly inform me regarding the results. Regards, Dr.Thimmaiah Consultant Natura Agrotechnologies Consultants in Organic Agriculture, Biodynamic Farming and Solid waste Management 268/15A, Faridabad-121007 INDIA e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Radionics (Drought update) FOR BDNOW
Please Forward. Thanks. I truly do not mean to bash anyone. It is just a shame to see such a wonderful concept turn into such bickering, anger and the need to prove or put down. Dear Chris, Allan, Hugh, Glen, et al, Well, that's one opinion. Everyone has one. We all tend to see things through our own experiences and prejudices and I think that this is a particularly prejudiced view. As I see it, there are two opposing forces at work in Steiner Agriculture going on in the U.S. at this moment. I base this on many facts, not the least of which is the absconding of term biodynamic by Demeter Co. But hey, let's not, for the moment, focus on all the incredibly stupid and self-serving things that Demeter, BDA and JPI have done in the past 20 years, let's focus on what's really going on. The two opposing forces are represented on the one hand, by those, generally, in/on BDNOW who want to explore, expand, modify, improve, innovate and apply hard science as well as, shall we say, 'not so hard' or intuitive, metaphysical science to the notions and suggestions that Steiner brought to the world in his lectures and through other means. In other words, work to make it grow and become more effective and acceptable. We're the group struggling to find a simple word to define what we do and what Steiner did that's not biodynamic. On the other hand, or side, is the group of people who believe in and support the BDA, Demeter and JPI. These people represent the ones who want total control (re: trademark) over all that is biodynamic in the U.S. and beyond. I say beyond since the rulers at Dornach have approved and financed the vapid, unethical treachery carried out by BDA/DAI/JPI. (I digress.) Generally, this group can be characterized by a LACK of desire to explore, expand, modify, improve, innovate, apply hard science and develop 'not so hard' science or intuitive insights to what Steiner offered. They are more interested in promoting and preserving a religion than in helping others and by virtue of their exclusive knowledge (as Lorand once told me only for the BD priesthood) and control of biodynamics in such a way that money flows to their organizations and officially sponsored consultants, they perpetuate their organizations rather than develop, legitimize, expand and bring Steiner Agriculture to the greater world, as RS wanted. You may disagree with these characterizations. That's OK. This is how I see it, however. There is a general dialog on BDNOW, which, on occasion, includes bickering, anger, the need to prove and put down, as within any family, but more often than not includes a lot of information about Steiner and related practices that would never see the light of day in the BDA journal, on the Demeter website/newsletter or in JPI publications. They simply don't have the far ranging, wild-ass point of view of Steiner that others do. (In looking for legitimacy, i.e. control, they have lost their credibility.) They have limited imaginations and a limited understanding of the Universal Laws and Principles underpinning Steiner's work. Frankly, I don't think they even understand Steiner. If they did, they'd be way ahead of us with new products and innovations.) Forgive them. They don't understand BDNOW, one of the most used listserve sites on the internet, and it's potential for spreading THEIR point of view. Now I ask you the most important question in this missive. Have you ever seen any attempt at dialog by the self-appointed leaders of the official biodynamic associations - BDA, DAI or JPI - on BDNOW? Maybe once or twice in the past. I'm talking now. Here's where the gauntlet is thrown down. IF THEY REALLY BELIEVED WHAT THEY SAY AND PROMOTE, THEY'D ENGAGE IN THE DIALOG ON BDNOW and would defend what they do and say vigorously. They don't. And it's easy to figure out why. When was the last time you read an email from Anne Mendenhall (Secretary of BDA and Director - Demeter), Chuck Beedy (Executive Director - BDA), Andrew Lorand and Alan York (BDA approved BD consultants), Lincoln Geiger (Board Member - Demeter and BDA), Heinz Grotzke (Associate Editor Biodynamics), Jean Yeager (VP - BDA and Anthroposophy Association Bigwig), Hugh Courtney (Director JPI and BDA), Ernie Harvey (Prez. BDA), Christoph Altemueller (BDA Board) or Harold Hoven (Director - BDA and gardener/teacher at the Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento)? You don't and you won't. None of them has the courage of their convictions to debate in public on BDNOW. They prefer the dark corners of agriculture over which they think they have influence. That's why they stole the trademark. They're not interested in any change or excoriation that could erode their influence or hurt their pocketbooks. Control is what they sell. Not enlightenment. If they really believed in what they were doing and believed in Steiner's desire to carry his work around the world, they'd be on the list. Pure and simple. (By the way, please
FSW: Weeds and Insects
Hi Tobias - Yes, weeds deliver messages about soil conditions. I have never noticed or correlated information about insects such as you suggest. Surely there must be some information we should be paying attention to there, but there are many more environmental conditions that influence insects than influence root rots or root-feeding nematodes. And I am a microbiologist, not an entomologist. I don't know insect life cycles the way I know fungal, bacterial, protozoan or nematode life-cycles. We'd need to bring in another expert to begin to correlate this information. Now that you bring it up, I will keep this idea in the back of my mind, and see if I can pull something together. I will probably bring this up with Andy Moldenke, and see if he can comment. Sorry I couldn't be more help. Elaine Allan Balliett wrote: Dear Elaine, plants and in particular weeds can give us a fair idea about the condition of our soil.Does the same apply to insect damage? Some insects are pod piercing/sucking like GVB others pod and leaf chewing like Heliothis others are stem boring and so on.Do the different operating insects indicate or point to certain conditions inthe soil and or plant? Thank you Tobias Koenig
SFW: Testing compost in South America
Hi Jose - This is great news! Excellent work! But, yes, you need to have the ability to test there in Brazil. In a microbiology lab, you need to ask them if they do direct counts of the organisms. If someone is interested, we do help people set up labs in other countries. Basically, we ask that you work with us by allowing us to do your quality control. We train your people, do alot of research with you, keep you tied into the global-compost tea world. You set up the lab, hire the people, etc. Works well in Australia, New York, and about to open labs in Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Hollland, and South Africa. So, if you are interested, we'd love to train someone to set up a lab there! Elaine Allan Balliett wrote: Question to Elaine Ingham : I live in Brazil and I manufacture Compost Tea machines. I might have sold so far like 30 of those machines. Most of the customers are happy by the results they have in terms of practical results for disease control mostly. They also speak very favourable about the nutritional quality of the compost tea. I only use worm compost . However, some techies do need more than practical results. Having looked to papers all their lifes they believe more in a wrong figure in a piece of paper than a wonderfull result in the field. So, my question is : How can I send you a sample of the Compost Tea to be analysed in your lab knowing that I live in a foreign country thousand of miles away ? Second: In case the logistics of the sampling operation wouldn´t work out , what sort of analysis should I ask for a Soil Microbiology lab here in Brazil ? Thank You in advance Jose Luiz - I just got back from PASA and found an email from Elaine offering to take more BD Now! questions about compost tea and soil foodweb matters, so, send them up here, folks!! Also spent a few hours with Will Brinton (and a hundred or so other people) today. Very impressive! Pause for thought, that's for sure. Anyway, let's not let Elaine's offer go unexploited! -Allan
SFW: Compost tea vs Compost
Hi Dan - Compost has more organic matter than compost tea, basically the non-soluble types of organic matter that do not dissolve in water. Thus, the benefit from compost is for a much longer time period than compost tea, or nearly any other kind of amendment. John Buckerfield in Australia showed that compost would benefit grapes for 4 to 5 years after a single application. But the cost of transportation and application can be a killer when it comes to moving compost very far. So, compost tea is a good choice in those areas where long distances or a lack of application machines are issues. Compost tea contains the soluble nutrients from compost, all the species of organisms we see in compost, but at lower numbers in the tea than in compost. Thus, the benefit from compost tea is not for as long a time period as compost. The long-term food resources in compost don't dissolve in the water, so they stay behind. The benefit from compost tea may be only for months to a year. But, the benefits are much the same from both compost and compost tea, if made correctly. Does that answer the question clearly enough? Elaine Allan Balliett wrote: From Dan Lynch - Please compare and contrast the application of compost and compost tea to the soil. Like to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each more than just the obvious. Of course one disadvantage of compost tea compared to compost would appear to be the lack of organic matter. Thanks, Dan
SFW: Inspired by Jennifer: Recommendations for Starting a Garden
Hi Allan - Like Will, I prefer a holistic answer. The Albrecht model gives you part of the answer. Biology gives you part of the answer. But with improving soil biology or chemistry, either or both, you can use some testing to tell you whether the biology or chemistry is right on, or how far off it is, or you can use the trial and error method. Your choice. Which is best for you? Only you can answer that one! If you want to know where you are, you can use the map and do some testing by looking around, and get to your destination in a short period of time. Or you can just wander and hope you figure out where you want to go and generally take a very long time, maybe never, to get where you want to go. Using scientific methods requires that you know where you want to get to, so you know when you've arrived. Use testing methods to tell when you aren't there, and to make suggestions about how to get there the most rapidly we know how. So, to send in samples to be tested, or not? How soon do you want to know you have attained a good soil condition? How soon do you want your soil to be healthy? So, how to start. Decide what area you want to know about. I like to take the sickest area, since if you get that healthy, all the rest of the area should also then be healthy. Figure out which plants you want to put where. What rotations will follow in what areas? Sample from the areas that you want to know about then. Take 5 to 10 small soil cores, typically each core 0 to 3 inch depth, 1 inch diameter. You want to hit the root zone, however, so if your roots are at 6 inches, remove root samples from 6 inches, the rest of the soil core at 0 to 3 inches. That's the depth we have sampled soil from all parts of the world, in all sorts of plant species, in all times of the year. Mix all of the cores together, fill 1/3 to 1/2 of a sandwich size sealable plastic baggie with the mixed soil, fill out an SFI submission form, and send to the lab. Typically, you send a similar sample to do a soil chemistry. Look at both sets of data. If you have questions about the interpretation, call and talk to us. Hopefully, we'll get you started. Hopefully we will determine what each BD prep does to the critters in the soil - enhance, reduce, neutral. We should be able to relate that to the benefit to the plant as well then. We should be able to tell you what kinds of foods or inocula to add to the soil to bring along the health of that soil. How to get rid of root-feeders, how to improve water infiltration, water holding capacity, nutrient cycling. Making sense? Anything more? Elaine Allan Balliett wrote: Elaine - This is a broad question posted to the list that you may want to provide a response to. It has struck a chord with the BD community on BD Now! and many scenarios have been suggested. These suggestions swing between two polls Get good soil test from an Albrecht lab and follow the recommendations' and Don't test your soils, just compost compost compost for several years. I tried the 'compost compost compost' approach in the beginning and can't help but think it held my gardens' quality back. It would be nice to see how you suggest a home gardener get started! Btw, I sat in on two lectures by Will Brinton at PASA. He had some excellent informatin on possible contaminants in (municipally sourced) compost and made some serious 'holistic' recommendations on composting. I plan to post his presentations as sound files on the web in the very near future. Thanks, Elaine -Allan
Fwd: Re: Agri-Synthesis sprays (CAUTION: Contains CriticalComments!!)
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:34:34 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Agri-Synthesis sprays Dear Allan, In response to the following: Re: Forwarded, Jane, from Greg without judgment. Hopefully, Greg will explain more to us about his new insights and marketing approaches. I guess I could get excited about 1000's of middle-aged men walking around with potentized preps on their heads in this country! -Allan Steiner said to get his remedies out to the world and that will save agriculture. I am doing just that. I have for years found it incomprehensible this narrow point of view that anyone who practices Steiner's methods should pass on the benefits to others without any compensation. In the past 9 years, I've spent over $600,000 developing Steiner's ideas. Now Gidion questions why I should be compensated for my time, effort and money. That's not even worth a response except to say this. Only an idiot or a moron would believe even for one second that people don't do EVERYTHING for some reward. Even saints do good acts in the expectation that this will get them a return ticket to Heaven. As I have said repeatedly for years, unless and until the people who practice what they call biodynamic agriculture and gardening get out from under their narrow little focus and see the broader picture and potential of Steiner's ideas, incorporate them with their own ideas and the ideas of others of like mind, biodynamic ag. will continue to wallow in the backwaters of the world and we'll continue to endure stupid carping about how It sure shows where certain people's priorities lie. Personally, I don't like not having enough money to do anything I want to do. I'd like to know who certain people are. Anyway, this is nothing worth talking about right now. We have field sprays, food and wine sprays and hair sprays and they all work. We're investigating any number of medical applications for our sprays. My girlfriend takes a bath in the remedies and it calms her down and softens her skin. She loves it. The other night, she went to her chapel and was able to meditate and pray for 4 straight hours. I'd say she's on to something. We've also been able to cure, in part or in whole, every plant disease we've encountered. The other day, one of my friends banged his hand badly. Had a big hematoma on his hand. Sprayed it with our hair sprays and within 2 minutes the pain was gone, Within 30 minutes, the stiffness was gone. The only thing he could say was This shouldn't be happening. I told Hugh about this and he just laughed. I have some keratosis on the back of my hands. I've been spraying my left hand for 2 weeks. The keratosis is almost gone. My right hand looks the same. I sprayed it on my face and in 24 hours, my facial skin was smoother and softer, especially around my eyes, and no dark lines under my eyes (I haven't been getting much sleep lately). My girlfriend says I look 3 or 4 years younger. My suggestion to everyone is try our hair spray and get some great stories of your own. Contrast this with those who sit in their apartments all day in front of a computer criticizing everything but not accomplishing much. Compare this with the many new remedies and uses of Steiner's remedies that have come out of the BDA, JPI and Demeter in the past 60 years (which, for those of you who are new to bdnow, is NOTHING. AP, with his limited knowledge of Steiner has accomplished more than they have. Just shows you don't have to be smart to be successful with RS, just innovative, strong and intuitive. Look folks, if you know how to make them work, Steiner's remedies will work. If you don't know how to make them work, buy ours. They work. There's a radio personality out here in SFO-Land who reports the oddball news. He ends his broadcasts with this message which everyone should take to heart. CAUTION: It offends those with weak minds. It makes those of us who have strong minds laugh. He ends his broadcast saying, That's the news. If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own. So Gidion, if you don't like my news, go out and make some of your own. Or buy our hair spray and get some really good vibes focused directly on your brain and Crown Chakra. It will clear up your thinking in only 2 weeks. You just can't beat a deal like that. Cheers, Greg Willis President Agri-Synthesis®, Inc. Napa, CA 94581 707.258.9300 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From Greg Willis: Agri-Synthesis sprays
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:14:26 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Agri-Synthesis sprays Dear Allan, I can now announce that we have formulated our sprays such that when sprayed on your hair daily, they stimulate the growth of hair from hair follicles on your head that are not dead but dormant. The hair line on my forehead has moved a full inch forward. It works quickly. In just 2 weeks after starting a daily application of our water based homeopathic herbal/mineral spray, most people will see tiny little hairs growing out of your scalp. Your skin will become smoother and softer with fewer wrinkles. So far, those who have tried it have seen up to a 1/4 growth of new hair in bald spots in only 4 weeks. The hair coming in is closer in color to your original hair color. In short, it brings life back to your hair and skin. I have discussed this new discovery with Hugh Lovel and Lorraine Cahill who are very excited about it. The introductory price for our hair spray is $99 for a six month supply plus $5 shipping and handling. Compared to Rogaine®, which sells for about $60 for a month's supply, or $360 for 6 months, it's positively cheap. It works faster than Rogaine® and contains no artificial ingredients or poisons. The organic herbs and minerals added to the purified spring water that makes up the base are at a concentration of less than one part per billion. We have a sufficient supply in stock and ready to ship to handle any order size up to 5,000 bottles. Please post this on bdnow. Thanks. Greg Willis Agri-Synthesis®, Inc. POB 10007 Napa, CA 94581
Re: Shanti Yoga busted for Whole Milk Sales
Allan: Turns out that Seven Stars and the Kimberton CSA aren't involved. From what I understand from the yogurt folks, it is the nearby CSA and biodynamic dairy who had some problems. Even those don't sound like they're too major. The CSA was told that they couldn't supply dairy products along with their vegetables. The dairy not Seven Stars Farm) sells whole, unpasteurized milk from their store, and as far as I know is still licensed to do so. I'm not sure what the CSA was doing that violated regulations, but it doesn't sound like they face any major repercussions. Seven Stars Farm continues to go strong, and as Allan points out, continues to make the best yogurt around. The community has been very, very supportive during the past year, and as near as I can see the farm should be around for quite some time yet. As for the Kimberton CSA, we're starting the first season without Kerry and Barbara Sullivan. All signs point to a smooth transition. Birgit and Erik Landsdowne have moved into the farmhouse, the pledge meeting was held a month or so ago, and everybody is looking forward to the first pickup. Birgit worked with Kerry and Barbara as an apprentice a few seasons back, and spent last summer working in the garden as well. Barbara and Kerry are off traveling, but plan to return to help get things started at the end of this month before setting off for new adventures. Bruce
Fwd: Re: Phylloxera and biodynamic wines (was: Grape Cuttings)
From Greg Willis - Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 03:30:10 -0800 From: Greg Willis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Accept-Language: en To: Allan Balliett [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Hugh Lovel [EMAIL PROTECTED], Lorraine Cahill [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Phylloxera and biodynamic wines (was: Grape Cuttings) Dear Allan, Please forward to BDNOW. Thank you. Please inform Messers Robertson, Heinricks and Wright that Steiner mentions a cure for Phylloxera a couple of times in his ag. lectures. In 1995, I put together a Steiner/Albrecht/Burbank/Willis based protocol which I then tried on two Phylloxerated vineyards in 1996 and 1997. We saved on average over 80% of the vines in each vineyard, a fact that can be attested by Messers Michael Topolos and Ralph Riva ( an infrequent contributor to Acres U.S.A.). That was for the first year only. Although I was not able to return personally to Ralph Riva's vineyard, which was sold for housing, I was able to return to Mr. Topolos' vineyard for 4 more years of treatment. I am happy to say that there is no more Phylloxera in the treated part of this vineyard. Since that time, I have developed even more powerful remedies which speed up recovery considerably. This year, I am using my newer methods on several vineyards that have a multitude of disease and insect problems including bacterial and viral infections. What once took 3 or 4 years to correct, I now see we can accomplish in only one year with respect to disease and insects. Improving the tilth, friability and humus content of the soil is another matter which takes some time to do but with copious amounts of compost, of the right kind, and with cover crops, of the right kind, we now have the capability of accomplishing tremendous soil improvements in much shorter times as well. Believe me, I'm only touching this topic. At Agri-Synthesis®, we can now do things with plants and land, and people too, that no one dreamed was possible. I have developed a homeopathic spray of seven Steiner compost remedies that can be applied to the OUTSIDE of a compost pile at a 90% reduction in labor time. Everyone wants to know how we do these miracles. Well, I'm sorry, I can't tell you how. It's proprietary. This is information that we've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars gathering and 9 years developing in the field. I will say this, though. Steiner was a genius, he was right and he was prescient. If you want to make his genius work for you, you must use ALL of his remedies. In most cases, they have to be applied once each season - summer, fall, winter and spring. Failure to do so guarantees failure at some level. And you must use horn clay or you will never achieve what is possible. Look. Let's be clear about one thing. Steiner's potions as one viticultural genius called them, are not preparations. They prepare nothing. Anyone who thinks so simply doesn't understand Steiner or his intentions. They're remedies. They fix things. Some of you over the age of 50 may recall that in the old days of pharmacy, prescriptions were called recipes or preparations made by the pharmacist. The term preparations was applied to Steiner's remedies in the days when that was a common description of what a pharmacist prepared. You know, I've ranted for years at the stupidity and ignorance prevalent in biodynamics and my mind hasn't changed one bit. I would like to see those who profess that they are biodynamics practitioners to at least drag themselves into the 21st century and ditch the word preparations or preps for nomenclature that is more modern, more definitive and more accurate. Remedies is certainly easier to use and more understandable by the illiterati who think that Steiner was a bozo dealing in witchcraft. Of course, the term illiterati applies to the self-appointed leaders of biodynamics too inasmuch as they also refuse to use the proper terminology. And I mean PROPER terminology. You want to live in the 19th century. Be my guest. I don't and I certainly see no purpose in wallowing in the past. Anyway, I have no trouble recommending planting Vitis vinifera vines on their own rootstocks if they use our system of viticultural design and management, which is far superior to others and which is, I have been informed by a leading self-proclaimed Anthroposophic genius, Steiner inspired but not biodynamic®. Thank God. If I was forced to use what he calls biodynamic® farming I'd be stuck in the Stone Age. With him! Arrrgh! What is acutely interesting to me is that each year we experiment with new ways of using Steiner's remedies, and my remedies together with Steiner's, and we see quantum leaps in both our understanding of the processes and potentials of these remedies. I have two observations that I will make. First, the potential of Steiner's remedies is limited only by one's imagination. Second, at the rate we're going, in a few years, I expect to make Steiner remedies 100 times more
Re: [maiz_milenio] News - Alien Corn Invades Mexico
Alien Corn Invades Mexico - Pav Jordan/Reuters http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/nm/20020130/sc_nm/food_mexico _genetics_dc_1 CAPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - In this one-telephone village in the hills of Mexico's Oaxaca state, corn grows out of cracks in the sidewalks, along roadsides and anywhere else it can find soil. That may sound like a farmer's utopia, but for people in Capulalpan and a host of other mountain settlements where corn is a staple of every family's diet, it is more like an aberration of nature. Local and foreign scientists have concluded the mysterious, ubiquitous corn variety is genetically modified, and illegal. See all the current collection of Mexico Photos http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Mexicoc=news_photos -- The Mexico Network http://www.mexiconetwork.info -- This conference is hosted by the International Center for Cultural and Language Studies (CICE) -- http://www.laneta.apc.org/cice/ -- with online support from the Planeta.com website -- http://www.planeta.com. Archives of this group are online http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maiz_milenio/ El uso de Yahoo! Grupos está sujeto a http://mx.yahoo.com/docs/info/utos.html
Re: CEC Balancing
from Michael Smith Please FWD: Dear Hugh, Jose, etal, I'm a little confused. In my memory, one of the Albrect saying was; Lime, lime and no manure, make the father rich and the son poor, which is basically showing how easily lime sucks up and burns organic matter content. To open up another can of worms, Dr Carey Reams suggested that calcuim at times measures less than 40 ergs at certain times of year and more than 40 at other times. Perhaps this is related to calciums ability to absorb other elements? Whew, what a diet! Here in the SE what we seem to have a problem with is that calcium disappears so quickly from the soil complex. Based on this ag agents are quick to give advice on liming in total disreguard of the ca:mg ratio. So what are we left to do? The way I seet calcium is that it is extremely mobile in the soil complex. This leads to the larger question of how we might be able to get the calcium in a form that will have a greater life expetancy than those purchased in mineral form; dolomitic, gypsum, lime hydrate, etc.. Why one time I even got some calcite and crushed it down to a powder to stir and spray for its young form. Why? At that point I was convinced that calcium that plants could use came to us in the form of rocks. This was until I happen-chanced on an article concerning cork. Cork is produced by removing the bark of Quercus Suber L., an oak every 20 years or so somewhere around Summer Solstice. I don't know the entire process but the first step in production is boiling to remove the oak bark tannins. Well to make a long story short, the bark of this tree is highly polymorphic and forms a bond that shuts out oxygen; the primary reason for using cork stoppers in wine bottles - to keep out oxygen and prevent the wine from turning to vinegar. I brought this up due to Steiners' using the bark of the Quercus Ruber oak. If I remember correctly, ash analysis revealed a 72% calcium level. Perhaps this bark is a living, younger form of calcium. Jose, I hope you will keep this in mind since you are translating an article into Portuguese and since that quite a bit of the worlds production of cork comes from Portugul and the Azores. There may be something more in this mobility of calcium than meets the eye that can be found in current chemical formulations. The Albrect Model is just that = a model. A gauge to go by, a measuring stick. The key word though is balance. A method of balancing. I think that many of Albrects ideas were based primarily on his local experiance based there in Missouri. Sometime I got the impression that Albrect was trying to challenge people into thinking about their own local conditions. Michael. I haven't read the Goldstein article, but I've talked with Walter on this topic on other occasions. First I'm surprised if Walter referred to Magnesium as a monovalent cation. It is in the IIa family of elements along with calcium and is Mg++. Walter surely knows this as he earned a doctorate in agriculture at Pulman University in eastern Washington state. That's a very good ag college, I might add. In Wisconsin where Walter founded the Michael Fields Institute there has long been a debate whether the Albrecht model is valid or not. Writers in such journals as Hoard's Dairyman commonly advise farmers to apply whichever lime is cheapest and disregard the Ca/Mg ratios. And Wisconsin soils commonly are what is considered high magnesium. A ratio of 2 parts CA to 1 part Mg is not too uncommon. Still farmers in that state get high corn yields regardless that by Albrect model standards they have far too much mag. The Albrecht model seems to apply less and less the more alive a soil is. Where the soil is alive the corn seems to get all the calcium it needs from the micro-organisms sifting it out for the corn plant. With a good BD program this probably works at near optimum levels, though I don't know that anyone has done meticulous research on this. The main debate, however, centers around cost. Who wouldn't follow the Albrect model, even if it is unproven, if only it was cheap? But it is not cheap to load vast quantities of calcium into 100 or 1,000 acres of corn land. It gets real spendy real fast. So if one can leave the ratios alone and just apply Steiner remedies, especially if they are applied with a field broadcaster, this has a lot of appeal. Not that Walter would ever use a field broadcaster, which he considers Ahrimanic. But his advice in general is to go for economy in fertility inputs. It's not so hard to see where he is coming from. As for the article, well, I haven't read it and can't talk about it. (Dave, can you send me a copy?) While I respect the Albrecht model and think it should be considered when one is talking about fertility inputs, there is debate about it and it is not set in concrete as sacred agricultural writ. Best, Hugh Lovel I have glanced the article which was kindly sent to me by Dave Robinson or the Walter Goldstein's
JIM DUKE: An Apple a Day
Status: U Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:05:14 -0500 From: Thomas Michael Kengla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: GrassRootsProductions X-Accept-Language: en Subject: Special Newsletter 1-19-02 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Herb a Day . . .Apple (Apple as Antialopecic?) My herb a day. . . column name evolved more than a decade ago. It was supposed to remind you of the old adage: an apple a day keeps the doctor away. In the intervening dozen years, I have moved from the simplistic concept of an apple and an herb a day, to striving for seven. In this second year of this new millennium I suggest you Strive for Seven. Yes. Don't settle simplistically striving for five fruits and five veggies a day, as the NIH implies and implores. Stretch yourself, Strive instead for even greater variety, Strive for Seven: seven different beans, seven different berries(and larger fruits like our apple today), seven different herbs, seven different nuts, seven different spices, seven different veggies, and seven different whole grains, seven days a week, chased with at least seven glasses of water a day, and some juices to boot. That's my not-so-secret seven steps to stave off senility. Variety may indeed be the spice of life, and a life extender. But could an apple a day keep the grim hair transplanter away. Too often each day, as I type away at the computer, the TV in the background, I see the glamorous ads suggesting that the T-voyeurs compare Propecia, Rogaine, and Transplant for correcting their real or incipient baldness. Good looking heads of male hair alternatively flash between a provocative views of a scantily clad female form fitted into an alluring aqua bathing suit. Tow-headed middle age men talk about once more being confident now that they have a full head of hair again. But i am here, tongue in cheek after seeing that TV ad one more time, to propose an AAAppleShampoo (with forskohlin ans saw palmetto) might be as good as the Propecia a/o Rogaine a/o Transplant. We'll never know until the four approaches are clinically compared, an unlikely possibility. As contrary to the recent inane polemic pharmacophilic pronouncements, we do not know that cipro is better than garlic, and will not know until they are clinically compared. (I'm back on garlic, having already ingested a course of cipro for a bacterial infection I aquired for the Ne Years celebration in Amazonian and Andean Peru. That's why I am late with this newsletter. Twenty dollars (87 soles) worth of Cipro purchased in Cusco scarecely made a dent in my infection. Now here i am suggesting that apple/indian-potato shampoo might be as effective as propecia and/or orgaine a/o transplant for baldness. One kilogram of cloudy apple juice can contain 50 milligrams of procyanidin-B-2, which Japanese Scientist, Dr. Tomoya Takahashi, in a series of papers, proposes will intensively and significantly promote hair epithelial cell proliferation in vitro and stimulate anagen induction invivo. He features procyanidin-B-2, but also mentions procyanidin C-1. These two procyanidins selectively inhibit protein-kinase-C, as opposed to other procyanidins which indiscriminately inhibit both Protein-Kinase-A and PKC. [ [My Dorland's defines anagen as:the phase of the hair cycle during which synthesis of hair takes place.] Other selective protein kinase C inhibitors, such as hexadecylphosphocholine, palmitoyl-DL-carnitine chloride, and polymyxin B sulfate, show marked anagen phase-inducing propecic activity in vivo. Nonselective protein kinase inhibitors, such as staurosporine and K252a, actually inhibit the growth of hair epithelial cells. 1,2- Dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol, a protein kinase C activator, dose-dependently decreases the growth of hair epithelial cells. Forskolin, an adenylate cyclase activator, promotes hair epithelial cell growth and boosts the growth-promoting effect of procyanidin B-2.] This last quote from Takahashi (2000, X10859531) led me to dream up an aromatic antialopecic anagenic apple juice, a concentrated (by evaporation) apple juice to which aromatic Coleus forskohlii (and/or its forskohlin) has been added. Applied on a warm towel to the scalp, this should thicken the hair, according to Takahashi, albeit taking as much as three months to six months. Takahashi concldes Procyanidin B-2 therapy shows potential as a safe and promising cure for male pattern baldness. And I suspect it is cheaper than hair transplant. Last year, I was tempted to write an herb a day column about the apple, tiggered by a London Associated Press story, Jan. 19, 2000 which concluded that eating at least five apples a week could help you breathe more easily. That send me to the refridge for an apple today, two weeks into one of the worse cases of bronchitis, COPD, cold, cough, flu, pleurisy, sinusitis, many if not all of the above inconvenintly rolled up with diarrhea and
New Member Introduction
Greetings, Our project is in the City of Albuquerque on Open Space Land. It has a very public face and is used by walkers, joggers, etc. We lease the land from the city to demonstrate agricultural projects including an annual 8 acre corn maze, 1 acre community garden, and 40 acres of veggies, hedgerows, and crops for wildlife demonstrating agroecology. ABQ is a migratory fly over zone for the beautiful cranes, so our wildlife crops serve as habitat and food for them in the winter. The entire property is 138 acres, but we sub-lease the remainder to a local dairy farmer who manages it for hayland. We don't have the equipment needed to manage the whole property. We utilize the traditional acequias or ditches as our irrigation system. We are certified organic in the fields we manage, but haven't bothered with Demeter, as it has little value for our audience. Although they always are interested to see us spraying etc, and ask questions. New Mexico has a fascinating cross-cultural agricultural heritage, but is rated in the bottom 5 of the nation in poverty. One-third of NM's children are hungry. We have just received a USDA food security grant to incorporate growing fresh food for the food charities into the project. This is very challenging because of a lot of problems with disease and pests. We hope the BD will help to strengthen the life forces of the plants to be able to resist these problems. We sprayed Hugo Erbe's recipe for Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh on Three King's Day. Have you ever worked with this? Cheryl
WOODY WODRASKA: A Manifesto for Seeds
I was delighted to open the new issue of ACRES USA and find this inspirational article by long time BIODYNAMICS NOW! participant and friend, Woody Wodraska. Read it, it is certainly an enjoyable dispensation of wisdom. -Allan (This article is reproduced with permission from WOODY (Hey, he GROWS and SELLS SEEDS of INCREDIBLE VITALITY! http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora and ACRES USA: The Voice of Ecoagriculture (You can subscribe at http://www.acresusa.com) WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS--A MANIFESTO FOR SEEDS We are seed users, seed eaters, seed growers...all of us. We have been wrapped in a world of seeds for eons, since long before agriculture. In hunger we ate the bird that ate the seeds; in happy accident we brewed the beer from spoiled and worthless seeds; in unwitting service to the plant we transported its seeds on our trouser cuffs. We slobber over ear corn and eat our Wheaties. It's in our language: We are of our parents' seed, our ancestors' seed, Adam's seed ultimately. We are born into, thrive in, die in, a seed sowing, seed garnering heritage. To deny the status of the sacred to these time capsules, these enfoldments of life we call seeds is to court foolish disaster. We have always known this. But...now they're messing with our seeds. The power grabbing corporations and governments propose in their arrogance and disrespect to irradiate...manipulate... defructify...monopolize and further commodify our ancient birthright, our real wealth: SEEDS. We are strong when we have our seeds, and they know this. They would enslave us and they would use as leverage the seeds we cherish, the seeds that nourish us. What we would pass on to the seventh generation as bridegift they seize as strategy. They would put a price on the priceless and sell it back to us. Leave our seeds alone. Leave our seeds in the hands of the people who feed us...the family, the clan, the village group. The profession of seedsman was created only 130 years or so ago. Perhaps it was an aberration to try to centralize, and then commodify, a process that had before been disbursed in village gardens, homestead gardens, middens and small fields. Grandmothers and Great-uncles collected, watched over, cherished the seeds that came down to them. Grew them out with love and patience and infinite care. Grandmother's seeds... grandmother's blessing...passed from generation to generation. Ancestors' blessing. Reckon three generations to a century and 150 centuries in the history of agriculture and you have several hundred generations of seed gathering folk, seed saving grandcestors, passing on precious seeds to descendants. Seeds too precious to buy and sell; seeds that must be gifted, presented. There is memory encapsulated in this line of life stretching so far back. Feelings are there too...feelings of gratitude to Gaia, of holding dear, of well wishing to the future generations, feelings of faithfulness...feminine feelings. The memory is right there in the seed, in our cells, in the mitochondrial DNA passed down the feminine line. When I touch my seeds I tap the memory that is there, instinctive wisdom almost lost, beaming itself into our consciousness just when it is most needed. John Trudell said: It's about our D and A. Descendants and ancestors. We are the descendants and we are the ancestors. D and A, our DNA, our blood, our flesh and our bone, is made up of the metals and the minerals and the liquids of the earth. We are the earth. We truly, literally and figuratively are the earth. Any relationship we will ever have in this world to real power-the real power, not energy systems and other artificial means of authority-but any relationship we will ever have to real power is our relationship to the earth. (1) Seeds are concentrated wealth. Seeds are worth far more than we pay for them now, in this aberrant commodity trade. You can pack in a suitcase $10,000 worth of garden seeds in any variety you choose. The slavemasters and their propagandists would have us believe that money is power and, since they have money in plenty, that they are in control. They don't want us to have that suitcase, to be free to leave and plant elsewhere; free to stay and plant many gardens, feed many people with real food. If we are staunchly of the Earth, her power is ours to neutralize and transmute the evil work of the authority-mongers, those without conscience. We can do this with life enhancing actions. Repeat. Life-affirming actions override, overwhelm, the lifeless. Always the great stone temples of the arrogant become topsoil for living systems. It's something the corporations and governments fail to appreciate. Their authority rests on entropic processes, explosions, coercions, cultural lies. They cannot take into account the power of life, the connectedness of life. They would have us forget where we come from...so we can be entertained and exploited and addicted to their cheap dream,
ATTRA Internships List 2002 is now available
--- Please Post to BD-Now It's that time of year again, time for Farmers and Interns to make connections and plan for the upcoming growing season. I am pleased to announce that the Year 2002 edition of Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships resource list from NCAT's ATTRA program is now available in both print and electronic formats. Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships http://www.attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/intern.pdf[PDF] This is the PDF version. It is 120 pages long, at 17,444 K, so it will take a while to download on a modem. Please feel free to call and order a print copy at 800-346-9140. The HTML version will be available at a later date (i.e., February). http://www.attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/intern.html[HTML] The 2002 edition contains over 270 entries describing farms, educational training centers, and organizations offering internships and apprenticeships in organic farming and sustainable agriculture. In addition, the Internships List provides a fascinating glimpse into farm life and characteristics of small farm agriculture in the United States, because the descriptive entries were written by the farmers themselves. We have farmers reporting from Alaska to Virginia that, year-after-year, the interns who come to work and live on their farms learn about these on-the-job training opportunities through the ATTRA Internships List. Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships is compiled by Katherine Adam, NCAT Agricultural Specialist. Please direct any questions to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Print copies may be requested through: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA) P.O. Box 3657 Fayetteville, AR 72702 800-346-9140 8 am - 5 pm CST http://www.attra.ncat.org === ===
Fwd: Bio-Dynamic weed control
Status: U Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:31:51 EST Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Bio-Dynamic weed control X-Comment: Original message was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, snip I have been Bio-Dynamic for many years. I live in Sandpoint, Idaho. I have sold valerian plants to Hugh Courtney for a few years now. I also do a bulk order of Stella Natura calendars. I'm certified organic, but mostly I am a clay artist and sell handbuilt one-of-a-kind animal statues for gardens. I'm also the only organic person on the Bonner County Weed Advisory Board and have a grant from the state to do non-chemical weed control on an 8-mile road right-of-way that is the feeder road for many private roads in my neighborhood. We had a chemically sensitive man living on this road who was injured by a clandestine herbicide spraying by the county in 1999 and he has had to move away. I think that is why the state gave us the money. We have been fighting being sprayed with 2,4-D and clopyralid for 9 years, but haven't really taken care of the weeds until this summer, our first year of the grant. I didn't own a weedeater and they bought us one with all the trimmings. We spent 76 hours weedeating the knapweed, tansy, hawkweed and thistle. I need some way to discourage a lot of so-called noxious weeds. I have 15 units of Pfeiffer Field Spray that I hope to put together with a D-7 weed ash solution of the four varieties of weeds and spray every year for four years. I am thinking that I could repeat just the weed ash spraying several more times in the season. We have built a sprayer out of a Shurflo pump to be run off a truck alternator with a professional spray nozzel to go on three successive 50-gallon barrels down and up the other side of the road again in one pass. I also thought of demonstrating some other non-chemical methods like planting competing plants like rye, native grasses and red clover; mulching; in test plots to use up the money, but really, what I want to demonstrate is superb weed control that does not harm microorganisms or animals. Do you have any expertise on this subject that you can share? The state has granted me more money than I can use and won't carry it through this year. I don't want to have it sent back and am writing a sort of grant application to the new Weed Supervisor and the Commissioners and also trying to interest the Extension Agents. Bio-Dynamics is so foreign to them and nobody believes that we can get rid of the weeds with homeopathic doses of a weed ash solution. I've always just dug up or pulled weeds on my own land and I have maintained the strip of right-of-way on either side of our private road mechanically for many years. Thank you for any help you can give me Merla Barberie 1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge Sandpoint, Idaho 83864
Re: Off Topic-BDNow and the Waldorf Critics List (from MichaelSmith)
X-Originating-IP: [167.7.14.68] From: Michael Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bcc: Subject: Re: Off Topic-BDNow and the Waldorf Critics List Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:35:56 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Dec 2001 19:35:56.0595 (UTC) FILETIME=[8CF70030:01C184D6] Hi Allan, Please fwd: What we are seeing here is a disparity that has grown even greater than was in Steiner's day. What disparity? The distance is between those who have an inner-working knowledge of how farm products are produced and those who do not. Of the ones who lacked the knowledge of how these products were produced came the fictional farm management moguls of the University system that imagined all out of the labratory and in numbers produced from balance sheets, while the quality of both animal and vegtal products declined, of which no explaination was attempted. Now, the problem also exists on the other side of the coin. In this particular situation, the BD farm in question needed to realize first of all what may interest and help the students to enjoy a creative experiance. First of all, the children do not at this point need to be introduced to the BD method. They want to enjoy the animals, the fresh air and take in as much as possible with their eyes. Ha, it's a bit like planting a seed that will remain with them the rest of their lives. Their parents on the other hand probably aren't concerned with how the produce is grown either. But they would be more inclined to experiance through tasty morsels that vitalize their bodies and leave them with a nourished feeling. This perhaps may be the reason that RS assigned the study groups to small isolated units; to protect them from destructive opinions of outsiders who have no basis for their opinions. This is almost a re-occurring theme where farmlands are encrouched by nit-picking individuals who base all their understanding of the 2-diminsional idea that is recorded on a piece of paper by someone who has long since gone and was probably in fact trying to introduce a single idea to a group to expand on later. How sad, and now that idea that was only a learning devise has become fixed and set in stone and therefore becomes the stumbling block to the person reading it. Michael. _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com
ADMIN: Fund Raising for Envirolink.org
(I encourage everyone to support envirolink the way that they have supported us. Thanks -AB) Dear EnviroLink List Subscriber, When you believe in something strongly, you want people to hear what you have to say. To be heard, you have to have a medium. The email list to which you are subscribed is a service of the EnviroLink Network, a non-profit organization run by volunteers. We at EnviroLink have asked the owners of the list to convey to you the challenges we face in bringing this free service to you. The EnviroLink Network provides free mailing lists and other internet services to over 500 organizations in the animal rights and environmental communities. We offer you and other activists a critical medium through which your beliefs may be given voice. We do so for free, in the face of uncertain funding and while subject to lawsuits from corporations who don't like what you have to say about them. A few months ago, the volunteers of the EnviroLink Network sent out a fundraising letter, asking for the support of the members of our community in maintaining and upgrading our services. So far, the response we've received has not been overwhelming. So, we've decided to turn to those of you who hear from us a little more indirectly, yet receive information that's vital to your interests. We're asking those who receive email via an EnviroLink list to donate between $10 and $25. Our lists serve tens of thousands of people... a little from each would go a long way in allowing EnviroLink to continue operating! There are two ways for you to donate to EnviroLink: 1) Send a check or money order to: The EnviroLink Network, 5801 Beacon St., Suite 2, Pittsburgh, PA 15217. All donations sent in this manner are tax deductible as allowed by federal law. 2) Make a donation through the Amazon Honor System, where you can donate to EnviroLink with a credit card using Amazon's online payment system. http://s1.amazon.com/exec/varzea/pay/T2PGSCU98NYSA0 Thank you - Marla, Scott, Mike, David and Josh EnviroLink Volunteers -- EnviroLink Network User Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5801 Beacon St. Suite #2, Pittsburgh, PA 15217 http://www.envirolink.org http://support.enviroweb.org
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Bioneers strongly supports restorative agriculture and has been a friend of biodynamics and biodynamic sensibilities from the beginning. I'm sure they are worthy of your support. -AB Dear Bioneers Friend: Bioneers are improving the environment by changing the world. Help us create the world you want to live in. Here are 3 ways you can help us reach our year-end fundraising goals: 1. http://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.htmlBecome a Bioneers member 2. http://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.htmlGive a gift membership for a special introductory rate of $25 3. http://www.bioneers.org/members_conf/print_memform.htmlMake a donation *If these links don't work for you, see actual text links at bottom of email With your support, we can amplify the voices of the Bioneers to resound the world over. Help us reach all those who want to be a part of the solution with encouraging examples of how they can be. With your annual membership donation of $35 for individuals and $25 for introductory gift memberships, you will receive: A Voices of the Bioneers sampler audio CD Subscription to the twice-yearly Bioneers Letter A 10% discount to the Bioneers Conference A 10% discount on Wisdom at the End of a Hoe Workshops You can sign up online now by clicking on the links above, call us toll free at 1-877-246-6337, or fax or mail the attached printable form. With wishes for a peaceful and restorative future, The Bioneers Staff P.S. Your contribution is tax deductible as provided by law. P.S.S. If you can't afford a membership contribution, please contribute your time by taking action on http://www.bioneers.org/features/now.htmlBioneers Now! *You can paste in the links below to get to the appropriate areas 1. Become a Bioneers member (http://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.htmlhttp://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.html) 2. Give a gift membership for a special introductory rate of $25 (http://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.htmlhttp://64.45.12.200/scripts/shopplus.cgi?dn=bioneers.orgCARTID=%BERTID%25FILE=/members_conf/members.html) 3. Make a donation (http://www.bioneers.org/members_conf/print_memform.htmlhttp://www.bioneers.org/members_conf/print_memform.html)
From Steven McFadden: A vision of the future
Some interesting food for speculation. - Best, Steven ARTHUR C. CLARKE OFFERS HIS VISION OF THE FUTURE By Raymond Kurzweil Arthur C. Clarke KurzweilAI.net December 3, 2001 http://www.kurzweilai.net/meme/frame.html?main=/articles/art0361.html? On Friday, November 30, 2001, Arthur C. Clarke, author of 2001: A Space Odyssey, and inventor of the geosynchronous communications satellite, joined myself and two other panelists by video and phone connection from Sri Lanka to offer his vision of the future. The event took place at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts in front of an audience of approximately 500 college and high school students and teachers. The other panelists included Alison Taunton-Rigby, president of Forester Biotech and David Cyganski, WPI professor of electrical and computer engineering and an expert in machine vision. The legendary science fiction author offered the predictions below. My own view is that Clarke's near term predictions involving energy are at least a decade premature. However, many of his predictions involving intelligent machines and nanotechnology are insightful and reflect a keen understanding of the acceleration of technological progress. Arthur C. Clarke's predictions for the next century: 2002 - Clean low-power fuel involving a new energy source, possibly based on cold fusion. 2003 - The automobile industry is given five years to replace fossil fuels. 2004 - First publicly admitted human clone. 2006 - Last coal mine closed. 2009 - A city in a third world country is devastated by an atomic bomb explosion. 2009 - All nuclear weapons are destroyed. 2010 - A new form of space-based energy is adopted. 2010 - Despite protests against big brother, ubiquitous monitoring eliminates many forms of criminal activity. 2011 - Space flights become available for the public. 2013 - Prince Harry flies in space. 2015 - Complete control of matter at the atomic level is achieved. 2016 - All existing currencies are abolished. A universal currency is adopted based on the megawatt hour. 2017 - Arthur C. Clarke, on his one hundredth birthday, is a guest on the space orbiter. 2019 - There is a meteorite impact on Earth. 2020 - Artificial Intelligence reaches human levels. There are now two intelligent species on Earth, one biological, and one nonbiological. 2021 - The first human landing on Mars is achieved. There is an unpleasant surprise. 2023 - Dinosaurs are cloned from fragments of DNA. A dinosaur zoo opens in Florida. 2025 - Brain research leads to an understanding of all human senses. Full immersion virtual reality becomes available. The user puts on a metal helmet and is then able to enter new universes. 2040 - A universal replicator based on nanotechnology is now able to create any object from gourmet meals to diamonds. The only thing that has value is information. 2040 - The concept of human work is phased out. 2061 - Hunter gatherer societies are recreated. 2061 - The return of Haley's comet is visited by humans. 2090 - Large scale burning of fossil fuels is resumed to replace carbon dioxide. 2095 - A true space drive is developed. The first humans are sent out to nearby star systems already visited by robots. 2100 - History begins. Steven McFadden, Director Chiron Communications 7 Avenida Vista Grande #195 Santa Fe, NM 87508 USA http://www.chiron-communications.com
