thank you Teresa for this post. it has given me an idea. ( i too, can not afford the cost of a water egg.). i've been growing bushel basket gourds for a couple of years now wanting to make drums.this year there are a lot of smaller ones on the vine due to the drought. i'm thinking they would make good prep storage containers. i think i would coat them with beeswax to repel water, and line the interior with clay, since they really smell. this would be after they are cured of course. the shape is round with a bit of teardrop shape from hanging on a trellis. i think native peoples used them for food vessels, for storage. we'll see how it works. :)sharon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Teresa Seed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 4:11 AM Subject: Re: BD Preps - Storage Thereof
> > > > >From: "ron poitras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: BD Preps - Storage Thereof > >Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 20:45:34 -0400 > > > >Check out the 'Water Egg' at http://208.55.224.185/cir3/listings.html It > >would probably make an excellent container for storing preps. > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Teresa Seed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Date: Monday, August 26, 2002 12:46 PM > >Subject: Re: BD Preps - Storage Thereof > > > > > > >Viktor Schauberger, in 'The Fertile Earth' makes a few mention of the > > >beneficial effects of the egg shape (amphorae are pretty egg-shaped). He > > >recommends burying a 2 metre tall egg-shape in the earth to hold liquid > > >manure along with fragments of copper and zinc beaten on wood. For this > > >purpose the egg is point up. For pure water storage, the point is down. > > > > > >I spent a while earlier this year puzzling how to make a large egg-shape > >to > > >experiment with this. Made do with a small vase eventually, can't really > >say > > >whether it had an effect. Schauberger's is called a fermentation chamber > >and > > >it had a motor in it to induce a vortex. > > > > > >Teresa > > > > > > > > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >>Subject: Re: BD Preps - Storage Thereof > > >>Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 07:23:59 EDT > > >> > > >> > > >>In a message dated 8/26/02 2:19:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >> > > >><< Had he been, we would all be scouring the earth for amphorae :) > > >> >> > > >> > > >>I have found that using vessels with that shape not only stores the > >preps > > >>well but imbues them with additional energies beneficient to the soil > >and > > >>air...sstorch > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_________________________________________________________________ > > >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > > >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > > > > > > > > Thanks Ron, I had come across the Water Egg - can't afford it right now > though. > > Teresa > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: > http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > > >
