Re: Re [Humore]Theory of Everything these daze
Hi Markess Thanks for this good chuckle. Our organic group has just gone through and experience with our local council in an effort to get the organics industry acknowlegded in there District plan. They turned us down as they did not want to be seen us picking winners, as it may mean that other industries may want the same thing as well and that would mean extra work for council.So much for fostering economic developement. Thanks Tony R. Who's the council, Tony? roger HI Roger Horowhenua District Council an elected group of people who are allowing this area to stagnate. Cheers Tony R
pre-emergence weed control
Maybe something for Merla's roadside project? Have you tried using corn gluten meal as a pre-emergence? I'm trying it this year in some of the areas that have tough annual weeds that are hard to get into to mow. It's supposed to deter any seed from sprouting, while acting as a fertilizer to existing root systems. I have some tough grassburrs that seem to multiply in my yard the harder I try to dig it out. Since it's a blade, I don't recognize it until it actually forms the seedheads, and by then, it's a large clump. You can use it in the garden in an organic program, BUT, no where you're going to direct seed anything. Ok for use around transplants and crops already up out of the ground, but I don't know how long the effectiveness is, so I don't know what the wait period would be considered safe to plant. Does anyone here use it?
FW: [globalnews] Dying Vietnam Vet Restores Health by RestoringLocal Creek, Watershed
Title: FW: [globalnews] Dying Vietnam Vet Restores Health by Restoring Local Creek, Watershed YES! Magazine restoring nature, restoring yourself by Francesca Lyman photo by Joel Sackett For a man broken by war, John Beal found himself an unlikely place of refuge. Hamm Creek was an open sewer, plugged up with garbage. The disabled Vietnam veteran hadnt known where to turn. Told that he had less than four months to live and advised by his doctor to find a hobby to take his mind off his pain and suffering, he wandered down to the stream behind his house to contemplate his future. He stood on the shores of a backwater tributary of the Duwamish River, a dredged shipping channel on the outskirts of Seattle, edged by concrete factories and laced with toxic waste. He was still recovering from bullet wounds and haunted by flashbacks. Besides suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, he had gone through three heart attacks, followed by a serious motorcycle accident. I went down to the stream behind my house and just cried, wondering how Id care for my wife and four kids, says Beal. Then the idea came to me: If youre going to check out, so to speak, try to leave this place better than it was when you found it. I looked at this wreck of a stream, filled with refrigerators, computers, old tires, torn garbage bags, broken swing sets, and stinking carpets, and all I wanted to do was clean it up. Maybe it was a way of processing his memories of the wreckage of war, he admits. Maybe it was survivors guilt. Or maybe his doctors advice propelled him. Instead of despairing, he started simply pulling out the garbage. When I yanked out this huge refrigerator, I thought it would surely kill me. Instead I felt better. Since that day 23 years ago, Beal has directed all of his energies to cleaning up and restoring this polluted stream flowing out of Seattles industrial south end. During the last ten years he has moved on to restoring the entire watershed of which it is a part. John really deserves credit for realizing that the Duwamish River and its estuaries could be restored to health, at a time when many people had written off the urbanized Duwamish as a lost cause, says Kathy Fletcher, executive director of The People for Puget Sound, a citizens organization that involves local citizens in protecting and restoring local streams. Beal has recruited hundreds of crews to clean up and replant around the streams and has now established a network of volunteer groups living in the area, as well as drawing the support and interest of the local Duwamish tribe. Through sheer persistence, and with the help of groups like People for Puget Sound, Beal eventually raised enough public awareness and pressure to persuade the local utility to allow Hamm Creek, which had been channelized and paved into a culvert, to be daylighted and rerouted over its property. The most dramatic thing is how quickly the creek began reviving, Fletcher says, adding that within days of a huge effort to daylight and replant the area little salmonids began appearing. What was once a culvert dripping with waste is now a beautifully recontoured and replanted stream brimming with beaver, salmon, and other fish. For Beal, the impulse to do environmental restoration is itself restorative: It has empowered me and kept me alive. That same impulse has spurred the energies of thousands of volunteers. Ive seen remarkable things happen to people who connect with Mother Earth, he concludes, describing dozens of cases of people disabled physically or psychologically who benefit from the exercise and feeling of accomplishment. They see a light go on when they get here. I remember watching a young man who had been in a wheelchair for eight years come out to help us weed and plant, he says. After two years, hes almost able to walk. At first, the disabled man would fall out of his wheelchair, Beal recalls. But now, he says, the man is able to clamber down the slope of the shore, willing himself through. He was out there every single day. And lately hes saying, Now Ive got a mission in life. No matter how stressed, angry, depressed or troubled they are, whether its a jail crew sent to clean up litter for the day or a class of disabled students, they seem to derive pleasure from the activity, says the riverkeeper. The redemptive feelings Beal describes are echoed by thousands of visitors and volunteers who have come to his restored creeksite. They are also confirmed by an emerging movement loosely called ecopsychology, the study of natures therapeutic benefits. Look around, says Michael Cohen, founder of a hands-on wilderness therapy course called Project Nature Connect. People long to be put back into nature, crave having their lives fit into some ancient order. For evidence, one need look no further than the widespread reaction of Americans in the wake of the September 11 terror attacks, he notes. Compelled to go to a place that would ease their shock and
thanks, Jane!
I'd like to try to get in touch with this person: ³Nature is in some fundamental way important for the human psyche, and as such it is really central to public health,² says Roger Ulrich, director of the Center for Health Systems and Design at Texas AM University. A pioneer in the field, Ulrich has tested these theories on patients recovering from cardiac and abdominal surgery. He found that patients whose hospital rooms overlooked trees required less pain medication and recovered more quickly than those whose rooms overlooked brick walls. Bryan / college Station has two hospitals, St Joseph and The Med Center, both have or are currently undergoing some major revamping projects. I've been wondering how a fountain type flowform would work in some area where healing is most needed.
Re: thanks, Jane!
What a great idea! The sound of water moving is so soothing. Let me know how this progresses. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:41:01 -0600 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: thanks, Jane! Bryan / college Station has two hospitals, St Joseph and The Med Center, both have or are currently undergoing some major revamping projects. I've been wondering how a fountain type flowform would work in some area where healing is most needed.
Re: delaying budbreak with FB
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: delaying budbreak with FB Hi Laura Did you have any success with your broadcaster - slowing the vines down? Hugh and all other FB users this is my first season with my FB from Hugh. We had an unusually warm winter and still warmer spring (30 C yesterday) with lots of rain fall. The result is that my grapevines are hurdling towards budbreak much faster than I can prune. I am looking for advise on how to slow them down, hold the sap back ... ? I had a look at your website recently and recommend it to all (especially newcomers to BD) - I have read and heard a lot about the plant 'gestures' associated with BD - in Alex Podolinskys books,-also Allan Balliet said about his own home garden plants 'standing to attention' for weeks after spraying preps, Hugh Lovel and others have said similar things, all over my head until I SAW IT in your pictures of the vines - particularly the picture of the red variety in the 'a little about Biodynamics', this is a classic case of 'a picture worth a thousand words'. We have a lot of wine grapes near us so I am used to the look of commercial chemical nutrition vines - yours sure are different - I also observed this growth pattern at the Castagna vineyard at Beechworth in NE Victoria (they farm Biodynamic) - then went on to an organic vineyard where I am helping install a broadcaster pipe and it was totally absent - these people have been doing some BD but are in the process of falling off the (Podolinsky regulated) cart, and have slipped back to organic management, their vines have a similar growth habit as chemical farmed ones do. Anyway thanks for putting the link to your site on BDnow for us to see. Cheers Lloyd Charles
MAD COW UPDATE ( 2) Mark Purdey theory
My ola to the gruop , with all my respect I am a A Brazilian Organic Veterinarian , who recently finished the treining in a Biodynamic . In relation with the mad cow disease are you aware of Mark Purdey theory - High-dose exposure to systemic phosmet insecticide modifies the phosphatidylinositol anchor on the prion protein: the origins of new variant transmissible spongiform encephalopathies? and his biography and eco-detective journeys to the centre of scientific truth http://www.markpurdey.com/ Alberto ( Sorry for my spelling )
Re: MAD COW UPDATE ( 2) Mark Purdey theory
Thanks, Alberto. Mark Purdey spoke with Will Winter at the Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming Conference Oct 3-5 this past year right here in Virginia, USA. He has also been a 'guest speaker' on BD Now! on a couple of occasions. I find the article of great interest, aside from what Mark's investigations have revealed. And, I appreciate your willingness to share what you know. What do you make of this particular story, after reading it carefully? -Allan
