Re: The Wide World and Testing Preps
During the Agricultural Course at Kobewitz when Steiner was asked about mechanical stiring he suggested it was better to stir by hand. Just before giveing the recipies for the remedies he commended the Kolisko's for their good work with homoeopathy. When he returned to Dornach he told Ehrenfried Pfeiffer that the benefits of the recipies given at Koberwitz should be spread as widely over the World as possible. These statements are still unresolved challenges to many although many others are getting to work and doing it to the best of their ability. One challenge with a stiring machine or flow form is imprinting the intent. It is too easy to forget while we busy ourselves with some other important task and leave the machine to get on with the stiring. Working with field broadcasters has demonstrated the power and importance of intent Warm regards, Peter - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 3:14 PM Subject: Re: The Wide World and Testing Preps In a message dated 3/23/02 1:00:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allan and Steve - why not avoid altogether the controversy between 'tedious' hand stirring and contentious mechanical stirring by using a flowform cascade? Tony N-S. Flowforms work to some degree but without the intensity and organizational forces that the stirring process creates. With flowforms you never achieve the vortexial energy that you get by creating a vortex. Steiner knew what he was talking about when he said to stir in this fashion. A vortex created by stirring from the periphery is a model of the eternally creative intelligence of the universe that is God. With a vortex you can imprint your personal intent and substance to the spray and effect the farm in that manner...SStorch
Re: The Wide World and Testing Preps
In a message dated 3/24/02 6:20:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One challenge with a stiring machine or flow form is imprinting the intent. This is the reason that my stirring machine is manual, you must be there to control direction and speed. I have the technology to do this automatically with the hydraulics [much cheaper] than can be done electrically and would only do this to accomodate a farm of over five hundred acres. Still, the Podolensky machine is electric and still works. We must get over this BS about machines or give them up completely. Through Steiner's indications and discussions of materialism I believe that I have come to understand Ahriman and have successfully made him MY servant and not the other way around...SStorch
Fw: re soil microbes releasing bound nutrients
- Original Message - From: Zoran Petrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 11:55 AM Subject: Re: re soil microbes releasing bound nutrients Dear John, could You give a link to the article ou mentioned? I could not find it. Regards Zoran - Original Message - From: John Lakey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 12:33 AM Subject: re soil microbes releasing bound nutrients Hello bdnow, The CSIRO in Australia have several collections of research papers dedicated to the study of Soil biota and you can find them at www.csiro.au Another text, recommended at the SFI web site, so I bought a copy of it before the AUS $ dived to banana republic levels is: Principles and Applications of Soil Microbiology ISBN 0-13-459991-8 Elaine contributes a chapter on protozoa and nematodes but of interest to the question about refereed scientific publications on activities of mycorrhizal fungi and their symbiotic relationships with plants is David Sylvia chapter Mycorrhizal Symbioses. He quotes studies that stated that though fungal hyphae accounted for less than 20% of total nutrient absorbing surface mass they contributed nearly 80% of the absorbing surface area of pine seedlings In addition three mechanisms are proposed for the release of bound phosphorus from soils, -replace phosphorus sorbed at metal hydroxide surfaces through ligand exchange reactions -dissolve metal oxide surfaces that sorb phosphorus -complex metals in solution and thus prevent precipitation of metal phosphates. You may need a dictionary of scientific terms to follow these ideas, I did! Important to realise that the plant and soil biota see the soil as a solution ie a liquid not a solid. There is a lot of info out there bound up in esoteric Government and University departments and libraries, I suspect that an e-mail to the SFI [EMAIL PROTECTED] would point you most quickly to good references. -- Best regards, John mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Plant exudates
Dear List members. I wonder if anyone of you would have some handy reference showing that plants do exudate protein as stated in Dr Ingham CD material and many lectures that I have seen. I have been questioned by a researcher down here and standing at Dr Ingham´s side have put my reputation at stake since this questioning was done in the middle of a lecture I was doing for a group of organic growers. I thank in advance any help I can get Regards Jose Luiz Dear Jose, At a workshop I attended in Australia by Ward Penwarn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) he presented a fairly comprehensive list from what appeared to be a highly authoritative source of what root exudates were known to be made up of. Maybe you could contact him. I'm sure he knows Elaine. Proteins definitely figured importantly in the list, which included virtually everything from simple sugars and polysaccarides to complex allelopathic chemicals. Dr. Ingham likes to refer to this as carbon shedding at the roots since the mix is so complex. I often refer to giving off sugars at the roots, since the sugars figure importantly in feeding the soil food web, but that is for simplicity of speech. The picture is really far more complex. And for each species of plant it is different--unique. So each plant feeds a different complex of soil food web organisms, due to the differences in the mix of root exudates. This is one of the important reasons we need far more diversity in our cropping schemes and in our crop rotations. I find, for instance, that market gardening in 40 inch wide beds with grassy/clover paths surrounding the beds ups my diversity of plants many fold and does wonderous things for the land. But you can figure that a plant's root exudates are a form of excreta and normally any species avoids its own excreta after a while. Best, Hugh Visit our website at: www.unionag.org
Fw: [globalnews] Esoteric Astrology and The Festival of Resurrection
Esoteric Astrology for the week of March 21 - 27, 2002 Beams of Resurrecting Light This Sunday is Palm Sunday. Next week Passover (Jewish festival of freedom from death) and the Aries Full Sun/Moon spiritual festival occur. The Aries Festival is the first of three (Aries, Taurus Gemini) Sun festivals of the new Spiritual year (begun at Spring equinox). This festival overlays both Passover (Jewish) and Easter (Christian), festivals representing previous developmental stages for humanity and celebrated during different ages (learning stages of Aries and Pisces). Each age (2,500 years long) provides humanity with new laws, dispensations, rules, and opportunities for development. In the present Aquarian (our new age) unfoldment more of humanity will begin to embrace the Full Sun/Moon festivals which represent the new Aquarian rituals,dispensation, laws, rules, and opportunities for development. Long term readers of this column are aware that energies and forces stream into our planet through light waves. These light waves emanate from the 7 Rays in the Big Dipper, the constellations, and planets, dropping their information (encoded in light) to Earth. This reception and utilization of light is one very important and precise way humanity and Earth's kingdoms evolve. The 12 monthly Full Sun/Moon festivals are specific (and the only) times when the Earth is bathed in this special light (five days in all). During these times our evolutionary journey is accelerated. This information, little known to the masses of people, is known to those who study the esoteric Ancient Wisdom teachings (and read these columns). This week esoteric students the world over are preparing for the Aries Full Sun/Moon festival, also called the Festival of Resurrection (new light/seeds/Life of Spring), the same name for Easter. It is important to know what energies are available from this Aries Full Sun/Moon. For without this knowledge we cannot fully use, unify with, understand, and/or distribute the radiations of light available that brings more life to Earth and to all we come into contact (mineral, planet, animal, and human). During the Aries Full Sun/Moon festival the Forces of Restoration are provided. This is particularly important after the events of September 11th. During the Aries Full Sun/Moon a great Being called the Spirit of Resurrection streams forth energies into the world that lead humanity out of darkness (ignorance) into light, from the unreal to the real, from death to immortality (all dualities). We initiate a new creative work in Aries -- that of resurrecting the light out of form. An appropriate art visual responding to the Spirit of Resurrection during the Full Sun/Moon Festival are the etheric blue beams of light rising up from Manhattan's Ground Zero and representing the resurrection of the Twin Towers (Gemini) destroyed on September 11th. These beams of light, ascending from New York City (U.S. throat chakra signifying creativity) are a tribute to the spirit of recovery, renewal, and rebuilding. Sunday, the 24th is Palm Sunday with the Moon in Leo (leadership sign). On the first Palm Sunday, two thousand years ago, the first Aquarian,called Jesus the Christ, rode a donkey (commonality with the masses) into the city of Jerusalem (Jeru means city, and salem means peace) as the people waved palms (celebration heralding the coming Aquarian Age of Knowledge). Jerusalem is a state of heart/mind (where the Soul resides), the love center in the body. Jerusalem also signifies the unfoldment of peace (salem) and love (heart) in the Aquarian Age (city) through the development of knowledge. Because after knowledge is given and understanding happens, love occurs. This is Aquarian. Thursday, the 21st, begins with a mid morning void-of-course (v/c) and continues till 4:06 pm when the Moon enters Cancer. Comforting and nurturing foods will be sought. Mercury, the way we speak with each other, could create rather unempowering states of communication. We are to beware of this in order to maintain right Speech. Right Speech, with the intentions of goodwill and praise, is a quality of the Soul infused person. Friday, the 22nd, is an excellent money day (Venus/Pluto) but another day of difficult communication, especially late morning when our communication, intent on transforming situations, could also hurt and destroy. Mercury is square (challenge) Pluto. What this means is that the way we've spoken before may no longer be appropriate and we will be challenged to seek new levels of connections that regenerate and give new life with whatever and whomever we find ourselves. Silence is best. Saturday, the 23rd, is v/c all day till 9:12 pm. And Mars, which helps us initiate things but also makes us impatient and angry, could challenge the activities in our relationships. Beware of feeling aggressive, impatient, and angry. It's also not a day to initiate things due to the v/c. A day of
Fw: Spiritual Communion
SPIRITUAL COMMUNION So the lover of Earth obtains his reward, and little by little the veil is lifted of an inexhaustible beauty and majesty. It may be he will be tranced in some spiritual communion, or will find his being overflowing into the being of the elements, or become aware that they are breathing their life into his own. Or Earth may become on an instant, all faery to him, and earth and air resound with the music of its invisible people. Or the trees and rocks may waver before his eyes and become transparent, revealing what creatures were hidden from him by the curtain, and he will know as the ancients did of dryad and hamadryad, of genii of wood and mountain. Or earth may suddenly blaze about him with supernatural light in some lonely spot amid the hills, and he will find he stands as the prophet in a place that is holy ground, and he may breathe the intoxicating exhalations as did the sibyls of old. Or his love may hurry him away in dream to share in deeper mysteries, and he may see the palace chambers of nature where the wise ones dwell in secret, looking out over the nations, breathing power into this man's heart or that man's brain, on any who appear to their vision to wear the colour of truth. So gradually the earth lover realizes the golden world is all about him in imperishable beauty, and he may pass from the vision to the profounder beauty of being, and know an eternal love is within and around him, pressing upon him and sustaining with infinite tenderness his body, his soul and his spirit. GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL ... Be the change you want to see in the world. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Fw: equinox marches on
This has been passed along so many times I do not know the original author named Maggie. It came via a member of the GlobalNews Mailing list EQUINOX 2002 Equinox is upon us, a time for celebration and joy, a time of transition. As we let go of the difficulties and intensity of the last three months, we can make the shift into the new. Yet again we stand on the threshold of somethng new. Spring is also a time of opening, cleansing and releasing and an opportunity to move into the fullness of our being, a chance to blossom like the beautiful spring flowers that are opening and eager to share their beauty and delightful smells. As I watch my daffodils and hyacinths opening and look at the early morning mist lifting from the mountains, I feel a deep sense of awe and gratitude for all that has been given and for the wonder of life. Make this time of the Equinox, today and tomorrow, one of special celebration, paying attention to the inner world. In your meditations these days, feel the transition, attune to the seeds of change and transformation and open to the joys of life. I wish you a beautiful, wonderful Equinox, love and light, Maggie Morning has broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird Praise for the singing, praise for the morning Praise for the springing fresh from the Word. - Scottish Irish ballad * * * * * * * * * CLEARING FOR THE EQUINOX DAWN The worst feeling energies are being experienced at this tail end of the Snake / Mars zodiacal year. All the toxic remainder of the challenging Mars year now ending is coming up to be transmuted. But great new energies will be coming in soon with the Equinox and the Spring Full Moon. Those who are more feeling based and or more tuned to world need will have been suffering most the last few weeks. The more taken on to transform, the more the suffering, the more creative energy will be coming available in the new cycle. Transforming is facilitated through prayer and fasting, singing and dancing. This is also a good time for Epsom salt footbaths and Shiatsu foot massage. The feet are the last part of the body through which psychic toxins are released. Sun in Pisces (and Pisces lunation that follows)is the time for clearing in this way. The more psychic and physical toxins are cleared now the brighter will be the Equinox dawn. The month of March is named from the custom of setting armies marching at this time of year. March is the month of Mars, the planet of vital energy, ambition and warfare. This is scapegoat season, a time when it is easier to set people against each other. Shadow aspects of the psyche always are revealed at the close of the zodiacal year. Whenever our cultural traditions and personal practices fail us in integrating the personal and collective shadow, then this shadow is apt to be projected onto others. St Patrick chasing the snakes from Ireland is a metaphor for chasing out the old Mars, an ancient pagan practice for this time in the annual cycle. St Gertrude, the saint who chased the rats from Norway, is also celebrated on Mar 17th. Mars rules Aries, the first sign of Spring. Mars also rules the last third of Pisces, the Scorpio decan with its keynote purging. The toxic residue of the last zodiacal year comes up in this time - Mar 10th to 20th - to be transformed and cleared. The old Mars represents outmoded behavioral patterns and beliefs, what drove us last zodiacal year but doesn't serve in the zodiacal year soon beginning (Mar 20th). The old Mars is going out now in this Scorpio (elimination) subsign of Pisces. This clearing and purging process will continue through the Pisces lunation, the lunar cycle that began on Mar 13th and continues until April 12th. This is spring cleaning time. The better we do our spring cleaning and clear out our closets, physical and psychic, the more good will come to us in this zodiacal year. The trappings of the old zodiacal year are now to be let go. All the toxic residue of the past zodiacal year comes up to be released during this time. Psychic toxins may appear in the form of negative and confused thought forms. Old psychic forms broken up now release energy back to the source within where it will be available for future creative expression. This process corresponds to plowing under in preparing a garden. Emotional and physical toxins always come up to be released from the system at this phase of the annual cycle. Many common illnesses are designed to help in the clearing process. Some herbs that can be helpful for internal cleansing are dandelion, milk thistle, cayenne, gentian. Mother Nature also provides aromatherapy in a timely manner. It's important now to take time to smell the flowers that bloom around us. Each scent has its special
Value added processing - vegetable juicing
Hi Folks, I am looking for a means of value-added processing for a friend's certified organic vegetable production (farm situated far from decent fresh produce markets). I have suggested that he looks at commercial vegetable juicing for cancer patients and others with medical needs. In looking for a large juicer, the manufacturers recommend a screw type press to extract the juice. My understanding is that this will give mainly the inter-cellular juices, but it is the cell juice (intra-cellular) which is required for the healing process. My questions to anybody who could assist: 1 Am I on the right track as to which juices are required? 2 Will a screw type press give the juice which we are looking for? 3 How would one go about preserving the juice while maintaining all the goodness? A concern is the oxidation which would possibly destroy vitamins and enzymes etc. Just chilling? I would assume that pasteurising would kill off all the goodness. I would also assume that the juice should be bottled in glass. He is looking at supplying patients via a health-shop - similar type of concept to the CSA... Thanks for any assistance. Stephen Barrow
RE: Plant exudates
Hay Jose, Hugh Lovel's reply to you refers Would you mind posting the references from Ward Penwarn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), if you have any success in sourcing them. Thanks Stephen Barrow
Re: The Wide World and Testing Preps
In a message dated 3/24/02 3:18:19 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just what is your water implosion device, Steve? Is it based on Schauberger's work? Stephen Barrow No, it is based on Storch's work, inspired by Steiner and Schauberger and Pfieffer. SStorch
The banning of seed exchange legislation
I just received this through email from a friend. Merla J. L. HUDSON, SEEDSMAN, STAR ROUTE 2, BOX 337, LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA 94020 USA USDA Plans Severe Gardening Restrictions Direct quotes from USDA Action Plan Clean list - Everything not on government approved list banned. Penalties - $1000 for home gardeners, up to $250,000 for nurseries. Interstate movement of seeds - Prohibited without permit and inspection. Send objections to the USDA Write your representative (Sample letter) What President Bush says Your help is needed. The USDA is now accepting public comments on their Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program, which includes the clean list or white list proposal. They are now going beyond the clean list and are stating that they intend to require permits and inspections for ALL seeds and plants moving interstate ? this will effectively shut down many popular seed exchanges like the North American Rock Garden Society exchange and the Seed Savers Exchange. These exchanges have been hailed as important means of preserving biodiversity. How many home seed savers will be willing to get appropriate licenses and inspections when they cost a minimum of $100 (for a nursery stock or seed license here in California). Penalties of up to $250,000 are proposed with a minimum fine of $1000 even for home gardeners. Please link to this page. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and state you are opposed to the clean list and any permit or inspection requirements for interstate movement of seeds and plants. State that the Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program is unacceptable must be halted, additional time for public comment allowed, and no new restrictions on the free flow of any seeds and plants that are not listed noxious weeds be put in place. Send 4 copies of your comments to: Docket No. 01-034-1 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD, APHIS Suite 3C03 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238 This is necessary so that your e-mails will not simply be deleted. Last year, the USDA requested comments on its clean list proposal - they received an overwhelming response - 8 to 1 against, yet they are ignoring the clear will of the American people. The government tried to impose a clean list policy three times during the 1970s, and had to back down each time due to negative response from biologists. Apparently, no is not an acceptable response. The public comment period ends March 29th, but it is important to keep up pressure even after this date, particularly by writing your representatives. The USDA is clearly out of touch with the American people. They just got through the huge furor when they tried to impose Organic Rules which allowed irradiation and toxic sewage sludge use. They have also instituted new phytosanitary certificate requirements which they admit are designed to prevent you from ordering from overseas. Please object to the new phytosanitary rules in your letter, too. Write to your representatives and demand that the out-of-control USDA be reined in. These proposals fundamentally change the regulations on the importation and distribution of plants. Currently, you may import, possess and distribute all plants except a few known harmful species that are banned ? a blacklist approach in which everything is permitted except what is prohibited. The new Clean List (or white list) policy is the opposite ? everything is prohibited except what is on a government-approved clean list of species that the USDA permits. This will effectively ban 99% of the species on the planet. The clean list or white list has been called an internet hoax, and the agencies involved have actually sent out letters denying they have such plans ? go to their website and read for yourself what they say: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/ See Weed Action Plan - 4th blue box down on the right. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/weedsjan2002-pub.pdf (Note that this is a pdf file and takes a long time to load - you will see a blank page for a while after clicking here) THE FOLLOWING ARE DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE PROPOSAL Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program Page 5: Interstate movement: 2) Issue regulations that require that any plant, plant product, biological control organism, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance imported, entered, to be exported, or moved in interstate commerce be accompanied by a permit and a certification of inspection and be subject to remedial measures necessary to prevent the spread of plant pests or noxious weeds NOTE: Any plant or plant product will include dried medicinal herbs, as well as clean seeds. Page 9: RECOMMENDED REGULATORY CHANGES Emergency Action (recommended regulatory change) The PPA authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to hold, seize, quarantine, treat, apply other remedial measures to, destroy, or otherwise dispose of any plant, plant pest, noxious weed, biological control organism, plant product,
How about $100 fees for permits for ALL seeds and plants moving interstate
Hi all, I just got this from a fellow organic grower. How can this be? How come nobody knows about it? Is there anybody official on this list who can check this out? Where did it come from? What rubbish!!! J. L. HUDSON, SEEDSMAN, STAR ROUTE 2, BOX 337, LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA 94020 USA USDA Plans Severe Gardening Restrictions Direct quotes from USDA Action Plan Clean list - Everything not on government approved list banned. Penalties - $1000 for home gardeners, up to $250,000 for nurseries. Interstate movement of seeds - Prohibited without permit and inspection. Send objections to the USDA Write your representative (Sample letter) What President Bush says Your help is needed. The USDA is now accepting public comments on their Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program, which includes the clean list or white list proposal. They are now going beyond the clean list and are stating that they intend to require permits and inspections for ALL seeds and plants moving interstate ? this will effectively shut down many popular seed exchanges like the North American Rock Garden Society exchange and the Seed Savers Exchange. These exchanges have been hailed as important means of preserving biodiversity. How many home seed savers will be willing to get appropriate licenses and inspections when they cost a minimum of $100 (for a nursery stock or seed license here in California). Penalties of up to $250,000 are proposed with a minimum fine of $1000 even for home gardeners. Please link to this page. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] and state you are opposed to the clean list and any permit or inspection requirements for interstate movement of seeds and plants. State that the Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program is unacceptable must be halted, additional time for public comment allowed, and no new restrictions on the free flow of any seeds and plants that are not listed noxious weeds be put in place. Send 4 copies of your comments to: Docket No. 01-034-1 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD, APHIS Suite 3C03 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238 This is necessary so that your e-mails will not simply be deleted. Last year, the USDA requested comments on its clean list proposal - they received an overwhelming response - 8 to 1 against, yet they are ignoring the clear will of the American people. The government tried to impose a clean list policy three times during the 1970s, and had to back down each time due to negative response from biologists. Apparently, no is not an acceptable response. The public comment period ends March 29th, but it is important to keep up pressure even after this date, particularly by writing your representatives. The USDA is clearly out of touch with the American people. They just got through the huge furor when they tried to impose Organic Rules which allowed irradiation and toxic sewage sludge use. They have also instituted new phytosanitary certificate requirements which they admit are designed to prevent you from ordering from overseas. Please object to the new phytosanitary rules in your letter, too. Write to your representatives and demand that the out-of-control USDA be reined in. These proposals fundamentally change the regulations on the importation and distribution of plants. Currently, you may import, possess and distribute all plants except a few known harmful species that are banned ? a blacklist approach in which everything is permitted except what is prohibited. The new Clean List (or white list) policy is the opposite ? everything is prohibited except what is on a government-approved clean list of species that the USDA permits. This will effectively ban 99% of the species on the planet. The clean list or white list has been called an internet hoax, and the agencies involved have actually sent out letters denying they have such plans ? go to their website and read for yourself what they say: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/ See Weed Action Plan - 4th blue box down on the right. http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/weedsjan2002-pub.pdf (Note that this is a pdf file and takes a long time to load - you will see a blank page for a while after clicking here) THE FOLLOWING ARE DIRECT QUOTES FROM THE PROPOSAL Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program Page 5: Interstate movement: 2) Issue regulations that require that any plant, plant product, biological control organism, noxious weed, article, or means of conveyance imported, entered, to be exported, or moved in interstate commerce be accompanied by a permit and a certification of inspection and be subject to remedial measures necessary to prevent the spread of plant pests or noxious weeds NOTE: Any plant or plant product will include dried medicinal herbs, as well as clean seeds. Page 9: RECOMMENDED REGULATORY CHANGES Emergency Action (recommended regulatory change) The PPA authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to hold, seize, quarantine,
Re: Value added processing - vegetable juicing
Steve - In the US such juices must be pasturized if they are for resale. Sally Fallon has said that maximum health effects come from pressed juices and lesser benefits come from centrifugal juicers. (Gersen used a hydraulic press) Introducing oxygen during juicing (ala ACME juicers and any centrifugal juicer) is your worse enemy. Supposedly (I'm told but have not experienced), if you press through a pressing bag directly into a jar and seal that jar before cooling, there will be a minimum if introduced oxygen and darkening of the juice will be postponed by days. Norwalk claims that juices pressed 5 days earlier are still as healthful as on the pressing date because their system minimizes oxidation. About all I know. _Allan PS Can anyone recommend a cheap but effective wheat grass juicer?? Hi Folks, I am looking for a means of value-added processing for a friend's certified organic vegetable production (farm situated far from decent fresh produce markets). I have suggested that he looks at commercial vegetable juicing for cancer patients and others with medical needs. In looking for a large juicer, the manufacturers recommend a screw type press to extract the juice. My understanding is that this will give mainly the inter-cellular juices, but it is the cell juice (intra-cellular) which is required for the healing process. My questions to anybody who could assist: 1 Am I on the right track as to which juices are required? 2 Will a screw type press give the juice which we are looking for? 3 How would one go about preserving the juice while maintaining all the goodness? A concern is the oxidation which would possibly destroy vitamins and enzymes etc. Just chilling? I would assume that pasteurising would kill off all the goodness. I would also assume that the juice should be bottled in glass. He is looking at supplying patients via a health-shop - similar type of concept to the CSA... Thanks for any assistance. Stephen Barrow
Draft-Plan for Noxious Weeds-modifiedClean List approach is outrageous
March 24, 2002 Dear Alan Tasker, The Clean List legislation in the Draft Action Plan for Noxious Weeds is a cynical attempt to take-over of a basic freedom which is sacred to all humans on the earth...free exchange of seeds. This is a great crime against humanity--equal to Milosevich or Hitler. I oppose this legislation with all my heart. The problem of noxious weeds is the fault of conventional agriculture of the last 50 years which has destroyed soil health. The answer, of course, is sustainable organic practice--composting, return of microoganisms to the soil. Noxious weeds grow on soil that has been overgrazed, herbicided, fertilized with synthetic fertilizers. Now you propose to cure this by spraying herbicide willy-nilly on BLM land and limiting the free exchange of seeds and plants interstate by requiring a $100 registration fee even to home gardeners and the Safeguarding Review recommending adopting a modified clean list approach for propagative material, specifying what is permissible, rather than listing regulated plants. This is a continuation of a political take-over of agriculture by ag chemical corporations and this clean list legislation was written by their lawyers. NO! Merla Barberie 1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 cc: Docket No. 01-034-1 Regulatory Analysis and Development PPD, APHIS Suite 3C03 4700 River Road, Unit 118 Riverdale, MD 20737-1238
Fw: root exudates
Hi Jose, Here is another title that may help. My partner is studying for a masters in soil science and nutrition at Massey University. She said the Eastern Europeans seemed to have researched most on this subject. Cheers. Peter. - Original Message - From: Gill Cole To: Peter Bacchus Sent: Sunday, March 24, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: root exudates Book - Soil Microbial Associations 1988 Eds Vancura V. and Kunc F. Elsevier Amsterdam.
Re: How about $100 fees for permits for ALL seeds and plants moving interstate
Hi! Merla, Our media is full of your President on a grand tour, urging countries to change from dictatorships to democracies. Do you think the US may do this in time? Gil Merla wrote: Hi all, I just got this from a fellow organic grower. How can this be? How come nobody knows about it? Is there anybody official on this list who can check this out? Where did it come from? What rubbish!!! J. L. HUDSON, SEEDSMAN, STAR ROUTE 2, BOX 337, LA HONDA, CALIFORNIA 94020 USA USDA Plans Severe Gardening Restrictions Direct quotes from USDA Action Plan Clean list - Everything not on government approved list banned. Penalties - $1000 for home gardeners, up to $250,000 for nurseries. Interstate movement of seeds - Prohibited without permit and inspection. Send objections to the USDA Write your representative (Sample letter) What President Bush says Your help is needed. The USDA is now accepting public comments on their Draft Action Plan for the Noxious Weeds Program, which includes the clean list or white list proposal.
