Re: burning the ground?
Hello Jasminka, I say trust you own judgment and clear as much as you can without burning. Think of all the compost material that you have to fertilise your garden with in the future. The fruit trees would not do well with burning. Pruning first then perhaps burn the the woody bits. What we do not know is how much time and energy you have for this project. Best wishes, Peter. - Original Message - From: Jasminka To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 9:41 PM Subject: burning the ground? Hello all I am sorry if what I send is a trivial queastion, but I don't have the exerience from which I would come to decision. So, please help. I have boughta piece of land (3 acres, hill, Croatia - continental climate) that has been untouched for 4-7 years. South-eastern sidehas beenunder corn as monoculture (conventional agriculture for 10 years) - todaylots of grass, andslowly developingbush(sorry,don't know thename in english) Nort-western side- long time ago there has been 1. one partorchard Today some trees under all overgrown in lots of wild raspberies and different weed, and dogwood (thick bush 10 yards by 10 yards) and wild rose (rosa canina) 2. one part garden (today in fern and thick dogwood) Also, there are lots of wild strawberries that I can see on borders to neighbours. This all is so overgrown that it is hard to walk through. Local folks sugest that we should burn everything to be able to work on land (gardening mainly). I think that this is not a good idea, but I don't know. Can you give me opinion on that? Is there a time to burn it when it would only clear up the fern and not hurt plants like wild raspberies and roses. Will yarrow and burdock grow again if we burn the ground? Thank you Jasminka
Re: Official BD in Brazil
Jose, Hedleys, anybody, When I read all this about Brazil BD not working, it makes me wonder about what I am doing on the road right-of-way. It sounds like it might not work to just spray Pfeiffer Field Spray on very sandy, dry soil. Right now, my ability to use it is in question and I'm waiting for a resolution. Should I actually get a soil test of the road right-of-way and try to add soil amendments? We are trying to grow native plants and grasses and discourage plants that have been named noxious by the state and county so they won't spray us with 2,4-D and Clopyralid. You wouldn't want to have garden soil, would you? Anyway, how could you accomplish this on 8 miles of road? We wanted to use the Pfeiffer Field Spray so that we wouldn't have to make all those trips down the road with BC, 500, 501, 508, Horn clay. I need to learn how to make preps myself so no one has to pay the state a fee to register a BD prep as a soil amendment. We have peppers for all the weeds and wanted to spray them in BD preps. The Hedleys suggested three sprayings a long time ago when I first started on this list. I still haven't firmed down what we're going to do, but I feel we should do something to help the soil, especially since the county sprayed it in 1999. We are planning to plant allelopathic plants--rye and oats--to compete with the weeds and then eventually seed native plants we do want. Merla Jose Luiz Moreira Garcia wrote: From what I have seen there was very little Composting operation with regard to the size of the whole farm. Secondly, one can enhance nature´s way by adding some key minerals that are in short supply in our geologically old and eroded tropical soils. Lack of nodulation in legumes could very well be a lack of Molybdenum, as I have noticed there. In a soil without a good microbial life one can expect little to no transmutation and therefore I see no chance to correct any defficiency without adding what is missing. This strategy is highly criticized as being non sustainable by those fanatics and the situation goes on and on. They regard adding outside farm supplies almost like a sin. They want to free themselves from the system and so do I but in a situation like that I don´t think it is intelligent to condemn your soil to starvation simply because they decided that this is non-sustainable In my oppinion there should be a another way to face the situation. Some criteria has to be found like level of microbial activity, level of nutrients, etc... Finally, BD is a proven system worldwide and if it does not work in a particular farm or particular region it should be seen simply as incompetence from those who are running those places and in our particular case the official Demeter people. Jose On Friday, March 8, 2002, at 07:07 AM, Rural Center for Responsible Living wrote: Dear Bonnie, Rudolf Steiner made it very clear in the lectures to farmers that the preparations were meant to enhance a sound animal based compost fertility management program. Thanks Christy. Yes. This was my understanding. I am a little confused at the Brazilian practices described by Jose, since most of the preparations are to be added to compost, and to think of adding compost for 27 years and see no results? Were they even composting? That is why I was confused about him telling of folks using the preps alone. It sounded like they might not even be making compost. Bonnie York
Re: Watering the garden
Probably not a problem in your area, Tom, but you have to watch irrigation ditch water as a possible source of highly contaminated runoff from your chemically managed neighbors. I read a study a while back that California farmers who were trash pumping 'lost water' on their off days (water that escaped from other farms and was fair game for other growers downstream to use even if it wasnt' their water day) were getting up to 3x as much insecticide as the maximum recommended dosages. Of course, since these insecticides were not 'applied,' it's presence didn't affect subsequent applications of more insecticides on the farm. -Allan PS But, boy, do I wish that we had an irrigation system here on the west coast. Praise to the 19th cent Mormons, eh? The place I just moved to have an incredible amount of iron in the water (its from the well, not rusty pipes). Is there any problem watering vegatables with this? I also have access to an irrigation ditch which I believe has less iron content - that is used for the fruit trees, but is not something I'd normally use for the raised beds. Can an excess of iron influence crop growth or taste? Thanks in advance, Tom
Quantum Ether was Liquid Space: The Vacuum is a Viscous EthericFluid
from Curtis at Global News [EMAIL PROTECTED] New Scientist.com Liquid space There's so much going on in a vacuum that it's beginning to look like a substance in its own right. Paul Davies offers you a guided tour of the quantum ether IS SPACE just space? Or is it filled with some sort of mysterious, intangible substance? The ancient Greeks believed so, and so did scientists in the 19th century. Yet by the early part of the 20th century, the idea had been discredited and seemed to have gone for good. Now, however, quantum physics is casting new light on this murky subject. Some of the ideas that fell from favour are creeping back into modern thought, giving rise to the notion of a quantum ether. This surprising revival is affording new insights into the nature of motion through space, the deep interconnectedness of the Universe, and the possibility of time travel. Ingenious new experiments may even allow us to detect the quantum ether in the lab, or harness it for technological purposes. If so, we'll have answered a question that has troubled philosophers and scientists for millennia. In the 5th century BC, Leucippus and Democritus concluded that the physical universe was made of tiny particles-atoms-moving in a void. Impossible, countered the followers of Parmenides. A void implies nothingness, and if two atoms were separated by nothing, then they would not be separated at all, they would be touching. So space cannot exist unless it is filled with something, a substance they called the plenum. If the plenum exists, it must be quite unlike normal matter. For example, Isaac Newton's laws of motion state that a body moving through empty space with no forces acting on it will go on moving in the same way. So the plenum cannot exert a frictional drag-indeed, if it did, the Earth would slow down in its orbit and spiral in towards the Sun. Nevertheless, Newton himself was convinced that space was some kind of substance. He noted that any body rotating in a vacuum-a planet spinning in space, for example-experiences a centrifugal force. The Earth bulges slightly at the equator as a result. But truly empty space has no landmarks against which to gauge rotation. So, thought Newton, there must be something invisible lurking there to provide a frame of reference. This something, reacting back on the rotating body, creates the centrifugal force. The 17th century German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz disagreed. He believed that all motion is relative, so rotation can only be gauged by reference to distant matter in the Universe. We know the Earth is spinning because we see the stars go round. Take away the rest of the Universe, Leibniz said, and there would be no way to tell if the Earth was rotating, and hence no centrifugal force. The belief that space is filled with some strange, tenuous stuff was bolstered in the 19th century. Michael Faraday and James Clerk Maxwell considered electric and magnetic fields to be stresses in some invisible material medium, which became known as the luminiferous ether. Maxwell believed electromagnetic waves such as light to be vibrations in the ether. And the idea that we are surrounded and interpenetrated by a sort of ghostly jelly appealed to the spiritualists of the day, who concocted the notion that we each have an etheric body as well as a material one. But when Albert Michelson and Edward Morley tried to measure how fast the Earth is moving through the ether, by comparing the speed of light signals going in different directions, the answer they got was zero. An explanation came from Albert Einstein: the ether simply doesn't exist, and Earth's motion can be considered only relative to other material bodies, not to space itself. In fact, no experiment can determine a body's speed through space, since uniform motion is purely relative, he said. Sounds OK so far, but there was one complication: acceleration. If you are in an aeroplane flying steadily, you can't tell that you're moving relative to the ground unless you look out of the window, just as Einstein asserted. You can pour a drink and sip it as comfortably as if you were at rest in your living room. But if the plane surges ahead or slows suddenly, you notice at once because your drink slops about. So although uniform motion is relative, acceleration appears to be absolute: you can detect it without reference to other bodies. Einstein wanted to explain this inertial effect-what we might commonly call g-forces-using the ideas of the Austrian philosopher Ernst Mach. Like Leibniz, Mach believed that all motion is relative, including acceleration. According to Mach, the slopping of your drink in the lurching aeroplane is attributable to the influence of all the matter in the Universe-an idea that became known as Mach's principle. Einstein warmed to the idea that the gravitational field of the rest of the Universe might explain centrifugal and other
Re: Official BD in Brazil
Dear Merla, Isn't there a whole community helping you with this project? Would you be spraying from a truck? National Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, 541-344-5044 (NCAP) in Oregon would be an excellent resource to refer you to already existing naturally managed roadside projects. What I have found with grant writing, etc is that people love 'models'. If you could hold up some succseful models of other naturally managed roadsides, I feel this would help gain support for your cause, and also give you a little guidance and structure to what you are trying to accomplish. No sense in reinventing the wheel. And then you take it one step further by using the BD sprays. So don't give up on using the sprays, but that little 8 mile eco system is probably way out of wack , and most likely needs some organic matter. The rye and oats that you mentioned will certainly contribute to that through their root systems, while also building soil structure. An ideal cover would have at least 5 different varieties, and you should consider at least incorporating one nitrogen fixining legume. Some kind of clover, would really be important in this situation. I could talk to my husband, if you really wanted some suggestion of what kind of clover, etc...(he is really into cover crops) I'm not sure, maybe planting the roadside in a diversified cover with rye and oats, plus Pfeiffer spray would be plenty with out additional compost. Are there any organic farmers in your area? That would be some one else to turn to for advice on developing a suitable cover and building the soil up. Christy - Original Message - From: D S Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 5:50 AM Subject: Re: Official BD in Brazil Merla: I think you are getting in over your head. Anyone: Isn't there someone with US experience who can advise on this? 8 miles of road is a large area and could cover a lot of different soils and weeds, this has the potential of being very embarrassing for Merla and not good for BD. David C
Re: FWD:Saharasia
the goats will still thrive until they have ate every bush and shrub to the bare roots - have seen this in the Australian bush a number of times with ferals - its not the goats fault - they are the most amazing critters to rejuvenate degraded range land when they are controlled in the appropriate numbers - too many uncontrolled and they become the destroyers - desertification is a management problem pure and simple caused by greed. Goats are experts at gettin out of control too !! Lloyd Charles Also caused by a dingo shortage, too, eh? When we kick out the predators we better be ready to fill in their nicheincluding the whole herd control thing.
Re: Solara's March Surf Report
Hi David C, I did some checking and one of my teachers, a Reiki master, who (among many other qualifications in traditional and vibrational therapies) has worked with Solara in the past leading up to the 11:11. In her opinion Solara provided a powerful service to the planet during that time. Blessings, Jane Here is Solara's bio from her website: One of the true visionaries of our time, Solara is widely respected for her integrity, courage and dedication. She facilitated the 11:11 Planetary Activation in 1992 in which well over 100,000 people participated worldwide. She describes herself as an intrepid explorer into the Unknown, going where few have dared go before. . . into the undiscovered subtle realms of the Invisible. Solara is not a guru, nor does she have followers, rather she serves as a catalyst to activate us into our own mastery so we may live in the Greater Reality. Solara is also not a channel. She simply embodies her vastness; something which is available to all of us. Solara has a rare gift of expressing the unexpressible, communicating with clarity, power, grounded practicality, strong love and humor. Her message calls us to embrace our vastness so we can anchor it into the physical and become Vibrantly Alive. To become integrated Earth-Star Beings. In other words, how to be real in an unreal world! Although she avoids media attention whenever possible, articles about her have appeared in US News World Reports numerous other publications throughout the world. Entire television programs have been devoted to her in Brazil articles have appeared in Australia describing the Solara Phenomenon. Traveling widely throughout the planet since 1987, Solara has helped activate many through talks, workshops, MasterClasses, Star-Borne Reunions and Planetary Activations. She has helped many to step free of duality, anchor their beings in Oneness and love with the One Heart. She is a true revolutionary of the spirit! Since 1991 Solara has presented numerous Star-Borne events in: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Finland, Germany, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, Scotland, Slovakia, Slovenija, Sweden, Switzerland, Tahiti the US. Solara is the founder of Star-Borne Unlimited which was created in 1986 to publish her books and act as a focus for the Great Awakening into Oneness. She is the author of six beloved metaphysical classics: How to LIVE LARGE on a Small Planet 11:11 EL*AN*RA The Star-Borne The Legend of Altazar Invoking Your Celestial Guardians - Original Message - From: D S Chamberlain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 10, 2002 12:55 AM Subject: Re: Solara's March Surf Report Jane: Thank you for this post. it feels right. Who is Solara? David C
RE: CEc balancing I for ornamental
Jane, Yes, the Rescue Remedy is diluted 10 drops per litre of water and sprayed over the transplants, as soon as possible after transplanting, and then last thing again before the end of the day. Stephen Barrow
The Healer Within-Breath Practice by Dr. Roger Jahnke
http://www.healerwithin.com/Index.html The Healer Within-Breath Practice by Dr. Roger Jahnke It is a bit unusual to us in the western world to consider the importance of breathing techniques. After all, we are always breathing, aren't we? It seems a little silly to put extra attention to something we do naturally. Notice your own breathing. Isn't each breath actually very shallow? Does your posture or position encourage or restrict your ability to take full breaths? If you note carefully you will probably realize that you are utilizing one quarter or less, of your lung capacity. The presence of special breathing practices in the ancient cultures has always been a mystery to people in the Western world. There are numerous beneficial physiological mechanisms that are triggered when we turn our attention to the breath and then increase it's volume. When volume, rate and attention level are all altered, dramatic physiological, and even emotional, changes can occur. As it turns out, unknown to science until very recently, the action of the lungs, diaphragm and thorax are a primary pump for the lymph fluid, a lymph heart. This mechanism may be more important to the lymph heart than body movements. In addition, the breath is the source for oxygen which is the key element in the body's ability to produce energy. And the act of relaxed, full breathing moves the function of the autonomic nervous system towards balance or homeostasis. (Please see the section on physiology in The Most Profound Medicine for a complete revelation of the mechanisms initiated by Qigong). From the traditions of the ancients we know that breathing practices are important. Why would they continue to employ techniques that were ineffective? Empirical science, the scientific method of all original cultures, is based on trial and error. That which has value is kept and employed. That which is found to have little or no value is dropped. In the empirical approach, that which is kept, is tried and true. Empirically breath practice is tried and true. We also know that these practices are important through clinical experience. Patients who have learned and used breath practice as a part of their daily personal system of self-applied health enhancement respond more quickly to treatment, no matter what type of physician they are seeing. Individuals who are well are able to remain more well, adapt to greater stress and have greater endurance when they keep breath practice in their daily self-care ritual. Inspiration is the rush that one feels when over taken by spiritual energy, it is the force that impels one forward into life, and it is the divine influence that brings forth creativity and vitality. Inspiration is, also, to breath in . The breath is a link to the most profound medicine that we carry within us. Within this nearly unconscious gesture, a breath, that we enact 1,261,440,000 (1 and 1/4 billion) times in our life span there is a simple yet profound healing capability. Our first act when we emerge from the womb is to inspire. Our last act is to dis-inspire or expire. These breaths, first in and finally out, are like parentheses that encompass our corporal life. It is no surprise that the breath would be so remarkably linked to the power of healing.
BD photography
Several people were kind enough to respond to my request for photographs of BD vegetables, gardens, prep-making etc for my forthcoming book. Thank you! Unfortunately, due to a catastropic misunderstanding on my part re how to back up Outlook Express files, I have lost over a year's emails and addresses. That means I have no record of who sent information about photograhy (or of anything else, for that matter.) I have just received submission details from the picture researcher (whom I am also chasing for confirmation of fees she will pay.) Unfortunately all material has to be sent to the UK by mail, either as slides or on CD-Rom. Would anyone still interested in submitting photographs please be kind enough to contact me privately for details of what to send and where to send it. I'm really sorry this is turning out to be so long-winded. Thanks so much - Hilary
Re: Official BD in Brazil
David, Thanks for responding. The soil type is the same--glacial till--sandy with lots of rocks in it. We also get windblown laos from all the agricultural fields to the west of us. It's too late not to do it. It's a project I've been working on for about 10 years. The weeds are the same: we're named them. There's a huge long weed list, but we're just targeting spotted knapweed, common tansy, yellow and orange hawkweed, Canada and musk thistle. Over a long period of time, we've gotten more and more support from road residents who are willing to do handwork on their own right-of-ways to keep from being sprayed. No Spray attitudes are in the majority on this road. I have in my possession Pfeiffer Field Spray that the county bought for me last year and paid a lot of money for from JPI. We're just waiting to see what the state does. I talked at length on the phone with the lady in charge of registering and I sent an email to her boss, the Director of Plant Industries, whom I have met. They could ask Hugh for ~$1200 in fees to register each separate BD prep. There are only two farms I know of in the state that are certified organic, mine and one down in south Idaho. I have no clue how many families Hugh sells to in Idaho, but it can't be many. He is registered with the USDA. If he had to register with every state in the union, he'd be backrupt. It's not going to be embarrassing for Merla. Randy, the Chair of the Weed Committee, has been harrassing me from the beginning. He doesnt let an opportunity pass. He's even been chastized for it. An easy solution to this is not to use the Pfeiffer Field Spray on the road this year and make my own preps this year. It's just about buying and selling, not about the preparations themselves. People on the Weed Committee, who are supposed to be neutral, are proponents of herbicide. Where they should be supporting this neighborhood project, they are very threatened. Their paradigm is faulty because it isn't holistic. It's not about doing something about the causes of weed infestation--overgrazing, chemicals, poor soil. They're trying to cure, short-term, one of the symptoms--weeds, and they have already failed even though they spray 1/3 of all the county roads each year. As you know, every thing in the ecosystem affects everything else. When land is owned by a timber company for miles on top of a hill range and they go in there with a harvester machine and take out the maximum amount of trees that they can by law, it make the whole watershed drier. When those county commissioners in 1999 O.Ked the contract sprayer sneaking onto our road, the general public recognized their motivations and that they were off the wall. That contributed to their not getting re-elected. Idaho code does not mention herbicide. It talks about containment, eradication, restoration. We are doing all those things and we have $2200 coming to us from the state of Idaho in a cost-share grant. The majority of the Weed Committee do not want us to get that money.There are changes that need to be made and it can at least be made on one road in this county since we have had a chemically sensitive person who was very sick and we at present have four persons with cancer, not to mention the dead fish where the culvert was oversprayed. The state and county recognizes this, but the Farm Bureau, the organization that most of the Weed Committee belongs to, doesn't I don't want Hugh Courtney and JPI to pay the state of Idaho a red cent. Idaho has all kinds of fees that they charge for every little thing. Why should he have to pay the same fee per product as Eli Lilly or Monsanto who sell to most every family in Idaho? If I have to do this without BD because it will hurt BD then that is our road's loss and the loss of Bonner County. I understand your concern, and I will take it into my deliberations. Thanks again for your input, Merla D S Chamberlain wrote: Merla: I think you are getting in over your head. Anyone: Isn't there someone with US experience who can advise on this? 8 miles of road is a large area and could cover a lot of different soils and weeds, this has the potential of being very embarrassing for Merla and not good for BD. David C - Original Message - From: Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Official BD in Brazil Jose, Hedleys, anybody, When I read all this about Brazil BD not working, it makes me wonder about what I am doing on the road right-of-way. It sounds like it might not work to just spray Pfeiffer Field Spray on very sandy, dry soil. Right now, my ability to use it is in question and I'm waiting for a resolution. Should I actually get a soil test of the road right-of-way and try to add soil amendments? We are trying to grow native plants and grasses and discourage plants that have been named noxious by the state and county so they won't spray
Re: Official BD in Brazil
David, This is exactly what we're trying to do. Last year, the county put the mowers under the direction of the Weed Supervisor instead of the Road Supervisor and our weed taxes that we pay every year went into a rotary mower mowing twice on the paved part of the road--3 miles. But it was late in the season when they got that all together and we were into drought season. You can't use a rotary mower on a dirt road during drought season. It's too dusty. We had a man volunteer his sickle bar mower to us and just asked the county to pay his diesel fuel. Two people went out with him with Men working signs and they did the other 5 miles. Then with our new professional Stihl 085 weedwhacker, my husband and some other men with their own weedwhackers, went along the right-of-way and did everything that hadn't been done--the goldbricking ranchers, the 50 absentee properties and by the bridges and mailboxes and the part away from the road that the mower couldn't reach. We wrote a good report with a whole bunch of pictures every .4 mile to prove that we had actually done it. We could have have done it without that professional Stihl 085 that the state bought us. This was the first year, that we had actually contained the weeds. We have enough support now to finish the job. Maybe we should just use methods that most people understand--allelopathic plants, mulching, Biocontrols, handwork, restoration seeding. I just wanted to add my own touch of BD weed control to the mix. I just feel in my heart that the BD would help so much. We already fabricated a sprayer with a Shurflo pump and a professional trigger nozzle with adjustable heads to go on the top of 50 gallon plastic barrels on the back of a pick-up. They are wasting a lot of money by not letting us use the Pfeiffer field spray and the spray rig. We could still spray the weed peppers because they were not bought. They were either donated or I made them myself. It's ashamed that the Farm Bureau people would rather waste that money than see us succeed. It's terribly political to challenge the ole boy network in a small conservative rural town in the state of Idaho. They're jealous. The Farm Bureau is now funding a demonstration project at CENEX, the local coop store, with plots of herbicide, do nothing, etc, to show that they too can do what we're doing. It's so obvious. The Weed Committee should support both groups...and they are. On March7, they voted to continue our moratorium on herbicide spraying. The important change would be for the Weed Committee to do some serious research on holistic management--and not spend all the weed budget on herbicide. We are now meeting monthly instead of twice a year. Political work is very slow and painful. Merla D S Chamberlain wrote: Merla: I thought if I tell you what happens here it might help. The roadsides are the responsibility of the local council ( your county I think) they slash the roadsides about twice a year. If this done when the weeds have just flowered it cuts down the weed establishment. It can be done by the council using it's own tractor and slasher or they can contract out the job to someone else. This has the benefit of making the roadside look neat and maintains a nice green ground cover that protects the soil. It also reduces the danger of animals running out of long grass in front of cars. This way the weeds are put to good use. It also reduces the fire risk. The offshoot to this is that once landowners see the roadway in front of their property looking good, some not all, then start to take responsibility for slashing their section more regularly. Once you have the slasher on the tractor it only takes a couple of hours extra to do the roadside after you've done your own job. This is not the perfect answer, the council has cut backs and reduces the area slashed, not all property owners participate and weather can spoil programs and plans but it is better and cheaper than spaying large areas. Hope this helps David C - Original Message - From: Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Official BD in Brazil Jose, Hedleys, anybody, When I read all this about Brazil BD not working, it makes me wonder about what I am doing on the road right-of-way. It sounds like it might not work to just spray Pfeiffer Field Spray on very sandy, dry soil. Right now, my ability to use it is in question and I'm waiting for a resolution. Should I actually get a soil test of the road right-of-way and try to add soil amendments? We are trying to grow native plants and grasses and discourage plants that have been named noxious by the state and county so they won't spray us with 2,4-D and Clopyralid. You wouldn't want to have garden soil, would you? Anyway, how could you accomplish this on 8 miles of road? We wanted to use the Pfeiffer Field Spray so that we wouldn't have to make all
Pfeiffer Sprays, registration in Idaho was Re: Official BD inBrazil
Merla - Have you spoken to Courtney about this? I forwarded your mail from last week on this topic to him on Friday, but I haven't heard back from him. Thanks -Allan I have in my possession Pfeiffer Field Spray that the county bought for me last year and paid a lot of money for from JPI. We're just waiting to see what the state does. I talked at length on the phone with the lady in charge of registering and I sent an email to her boss, the Director of Plant Industries, whom I have met. They could ask Hugh for ~$1200 in fees to register each separate BD prep. There are only two farms I know of in the state that are certified organic, mine and one down in south Idaho. I have no clue how many families Hugh sells to in Idaho, but it can't be many. He is registered with the USDA. If he had to register with every state in the union, he'd be backrupt.
Pfeiffer Field Sprays
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
Merla's BD Weed Control was Re: Official BD in Brazil
Merla - Just HOW MUCH **DID** you folks spend on Pfeiffer Sprays? -Allan David, This is exactly what we're trying to do. Last year, the county put the mowers under the direction of the Weed Supervisor instead of the Road Supervisor and our weed taxes that we pay every year went into a rotary mower mowing twice on the paved part of the road--3 miles. But it was late in the season when they got that all together and we were into drought season. You can't use a rotary mower on a dirt road during drought season. It's too dusty. We had a man volunteer his sickle bar mower to us and just asked the county to pay his diesel fuel. Two people went out with him with Men working signs and they did the other 5 miles. Then with our new professional Stihl 085 weedwhacker, my husband and some other men with their own weedwhackers, went along the right-of-way and did everything that hadn't been done--the goldbricking ranchers, the 50 absentee properties and by the bridges and mailboxes and the part away from the road that the mower couldn't reach. We wrote a good report with a whole bunch of pictures every .4 mile to prove that we had actually done it. We could have have done it without that professional Stihl 085 that the state bought us. This was the first year, that we had actually contained the weeds. We have enough support now to finish the job. Maybe we should just use methods that most people understand--allelopathic plants, mulching, Biocontrols, handwork, restoration seeding. I just wanted to add my own touch of BD weed control to the mix. I just feel in my heart that the BD would help so much. We already fabricated a sprayer with a Shurflo pump and a professional trigger nozzle with adjustable heads to go on the top of 50 gallon plastic barrels on the back of a pick-up. They are wasting a lot of money by not letting us use the Pfeiffer field spray and the spray rig. We could still spray the weed peppers because they were not bought. They were either donated or I made them myself. It's ashamed that the Farm Bureau people would rather waste that money than see us succeed. It's terribly political to challenge the ole boy network in a small conservative rural town in the state of Idaho. They're jealous. The Farm Bureau is now funding a demonstration project at CENEX, the local coop store, with plots of herbicide, do nothing, etc, to show that they too can do what we're doing. It's so obvious. The Weed Committee should support both groups...and they are. On March7, they voted to continue our moratorium on herbicide spraying. The important change would be for the Weed Committee to do some serious research on holistic management--and not spend all the weed budget on herbicide. We are now meeting monthly instead of twice a year. Political work is very slow and painful. Merla D S Chamberlain wrote: Merla: I thought if I tell you what happens here it might help. The roadsides are the responsibility of the local council ( your county I think) they slash the roadsides about twice a year. If this done when the weeds have just flowered it cuts down the weed establishment. It can be done by the council using it's own tractor and slasher or they can contract out the job to someone else. This has the benefit of making the roadside look neat and maintains a nice green ground cover that protects the soil. It also reduces the danger of animals running out of long grass in front of cars. This way the weeds are put to good use. It also reduces the fire risk. The offshoot to this is that once landowners see the roadway in front of their property looking good, some not all, then start to take responsibility for slashing their section more regularly. Once you have the slasher on the tractor it only takes a couple of hours extra to do the roadside after you've done your own job. This is not the perfect answer, the council has cut backs and reduces the area slashed, not all property owners participate and weather can spoil programs and plans but it is better and cheaper than spaying large areas. Hope this helps David C - Original Message - From: Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 10 March 2002 9:59 PM Subject: Re: Official BD in Brazil Jose, Hedleys, anybody, When I read all this about Brazil BD not working, it makes me wonder about what I am doing on the road right-of-way. It sounds like it might not work to just spray Pfeiffer Field Spray on very sandy, dry soil. Right now, my ability to use it is in question and I'm waiting for a resolution. Should I actually get a soil test of the road right-of-way and try to add soil amendments? We are trying to grow native plants and grasses and discourage plants that have been named noxious by the state and county so they won't spray us with 2,4-D and Clopyralid. You wouldn't want to have garden soil, would you? Anyway, how could you
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I am making my own, finally using my BS in marine biology.SStorch
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I am making my own, finally using my BS in marine biology.SStorch wanna talk about it? What are you using as a compost bag? What are you using for aeration? For pumping? For a tank? (Did I leave anything out?) thanks -Allan
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Glen, I have no problem at all, with those who can, dealing direct with what ever level of information gathering. My point is that for many people, I can teach them to dowse with accuracy and verifiable (by another dowser) results. I for one, can not teach anyone to talk to Devas or what ever, in a couple of hours, but I can set some one on the path to dowsing in that time. Glen Atkinson wrote: Lloyd Charles wrote: More from the land of oz - I found this lurking uncompleted on My desktop - (Delete is just above the left cursor key if its too out of date) Gil Robertson wrote While one can undoubtable wait for devine revelation, if playing with a few acres in one situation, but if one is working with many properties, as Hugh and James are, there is a need to get accurate answers, quickly. In HAstings NZ last weekend I was chatting with Joke Bloksma from the Louis Bolk Institute in Holland, who is here seminaring on Geothean observation. I wish to honour her part in the stimulation of these words rather than quote our conversation. We were discussing the difference between direct perception and dowsing.
Re: Merla's BD Weed Control was Re: Official BD in Brazil
Hi! Folk, I have been away for a few days and not up with my mail. Re: road side weed control. About eight or nine years ago I managed to get through to a Pest Plant officer that nature will fill every void and spraying weeds is counter productive as when you knock out one lot another takes their place. One should instead plant competing plants that are of a nature that is more desirable. In Oz we have many native plants, ranging from grasses, through bushes to trees that naturally suppress weeds. We now have stopped spraying and instead direct seed native species with Oz designed and built equipment. A two person crew can about fifty kilometres of rip line a day and each side of a road may have two to five passes, so five to ten Ks a day can be treated and it is a once only process and in a few years, few if any weeds and no more cost. In the last few days we have driven about 1,500 Ks and saw about one hundred Ks in different stages from year one to year seven. It is good to see the changes and the new bird habitat etc. A selling point I made was that the tree development helped stop weeds coming from the road into farms. It makes the roads so much more pleasant to drive along and safer, by reducing cross winds. Gil
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Allan Balliett wrote: Incidentally, Phil Callahan is fond of saying that a Reichian acculator-based poltice he made for his chest cured him of cancer. I did not know Phil credited it to Reich. He calls it a Shatnez and uses Biblical referees. I have experimented with it and made some design developments to make it easier to use. One example:- Fran, my wife a a few days from an advanced Massage Training workshop, when she broke two or three ribs. The area was too painful to touch and her use of the left arm made it very painful. If she missed this workshop, her tactile therapies studies would be put back a year. She wore a Shatnez night and day and when the workshop came she was fine and could have the area massaged and could massage without pain. I do not know of a similar recovery and was most impressed. Gil
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In South Australia, the adjoining Landowner has responsibility and if they do not control road side weeds, the District Council does and bills them. Thus Landowners are interested in my idea of large scale replanting of native species, that block out weeds. Gil D S Chamberlain wrote: Merla: I thought if I tell you what happens here it might help. The roadsides are the responsibility of the local council ( your county I think) they slash the roadsides about twice a year.
