----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 1:26 PM Subject: Re: Vitality and fertility ofsoils
> > In the agriculture lectures Steiner refers several times to keeping the work on the farm Hi Steve, Alan This is what I like about Rheams method is that a farmer can learn to do all his own testing from weeds ,insects La Motte soil test, ERGS ORP, ph, brix tests to evaluate the health of his plants and take the appropriate measures to rectify by foliar sprays , BD sprays, Radionics, compost , organic fertilisers. Every time I do the above I learn more about my soils and plants. By combining all the above activities a farmer has sound programme for conversation to organics/ BD. Many times when I have mention BD to growers I get the comment that BD is too hard , I have not got enough time to stir, it is too confusing and the list goes on. I myself changed from conventionial growing to BD 10 years ago following traditional methods it was fine for the first few years and then nothing got any better it wasn't until I joined this list and started using potentised preps ,sequential spraying along with Rheams that I that things have really started to change I still have a lot of hard work to do before I am satisfied that I am producing the perfect crop that is pest, weed and disease free. It is about Working Smarter Not Harder that is my philosophy > As far as I am concerned I do not care for any of these scientific > evaluations until the preparations have been used for two years...sstorch I recall reading a conversation between Steiner and Pfeiffer where Steiner encourage Pfeiffer to study every thing that he could to make Biodynamic sustainable and profitable he says it wouldn't work unless it was profitable for the farmer . Pfeiffer spent his life time as a scientist studing ,writing and lecturing on this subject. it is so wonderful to have so much knowledge from this list to allow me as a grower to developed my own farm using my own skill, ability and resources that I have available my own individuality. Cheers Tony
