Words of Wisdom from Steven McFadden : Chiron Communication Jan.2003

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Chiron Communiqué

Author's Occasional Newsletter

From Steven McFadden in Santa Fe, NM

http://www.chiron-communications.com/

Vol. 8  No. 1
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January, 2003

© - Copyright 2003 by Steven McFadden
All Rights Reserved

Your Food, Your Family, Your Planet:

One Big Step Torward Renewal


"Much is at stake, and we are the keepers of the Earth."
- Lincoln Geiger, from Farms of Tomorrow Revisited


The human race has only one or perhaps two generations to rescue
itself, according to the 2003 State of the World report by Worldwatch
Institute..

In its 20th annual report, Worldwatch emphasizes that the longer we
delay wholehearted action to remedy the massive environmental and
social problems we have created for ourselves, then the deeper the
impoverishment and misery that humankind must bear.

Life on planet Earth is now unmistakably and imminently threatened by
overuse of resources, massive pollution and wholesale destruction of
natural areas. Our life-support conditions are deteriorating rapidly.
In most cases, nothing is being done. The political will to make
changes is lacking.

In a preface to the 2003 State of the World Report, Harvard scientist
E. O. Wilson writes: "If we are going to reverse biodiversity loss,
dampen the effects of global warming, and eliminate the scourge of
persistent poverty, we need to reinvent ourselves - as individuals,
as societies, as corporations, and as governments."

While individuals may feel powerless to reinvent or to change the
actions of governments and multinational corporations, there is one
certain step that they and their household can take: joining and
supporting a community farm (CSA). That's because every dollar we
spend on food is a direct vote not just on our personal health, but
also on the kind of environment we and our families live in.

Most food dollars vote - albeit unconsciously - for pesticides,
herbicides, synthetic hormones, preservatives, irradiation, and
genetically mutated crops and farm animals. Before the year is out,
we will likely also have cloned farm animals making their way along
the food chain to our kitchen tables.

This unappetizing reality - and the harsh economic consequences that
follow from it - is not something most people have chosen out of
informed free will.  Rather, via an unconscious process stimulated by
convenience and advertising, people have come to automatically
support this system with their food dollars, unaware of the full
chain of effects.

As documented in the 1998 book I wrote with Trauger Groh, Farms of
Tomorrow Revisited, CSA farms offer a range of clear, practical and
enormously helpful alternatives in the realms of diet, open local
space, work for local farmers, general economics, and specific
environmental health.  With a CSA the farmer can become a family's
Ambassador to the Earth, and the land she or he tills in the
community can become an Ecological Oasis of thriving health.

A CSA farm is a community-based organization involving consumer
households and growers. The households live independently but agree
to provide direct, up-front support for the local growers by
investing in a share of the harvest. The growers in turn agree to do
their best to provide sufficient quantity and quality of food to meet
the household needs and expectations of the shareholders.

CSA farms typically produce a sizeable share of a family's fresh
vegetables and fruits; many CSAs also offer shares of milk, butter,
eggs, meat, and flowers; some also have formal links with consumer
coops, giving shareholders access to a wide variety of goods.

Within this web of economic relationships, the farms and families
form a network of mutual support, whether the community is based in
an urban neighborhood, a suburb, a church, a school, or some other
social constellation. CSA has wide latitude for variation, depending
on the resources and desires of the participants. No two community
farms are entirely alike.

As CSA pioneers conceived of it -- and as it is being practiced at
many farms -- CSA is not just another new and clever approach to
marketing. Rather, community farming is about the necessary renewal
of agriculture through its healthy linkage with the human community
that depends on farming for survival. It's also about the necessary
stewardship of soil, plants, and animals: the essential capital of
human cultures.

For those with an interest in learning more about this alternative
and the benefits it can bring to them, their families, and their
communities, I offer links to two essays I have written on the
subject, and links to resources and information.


Community Farms in the 21st Century:
Outside the Box, But Inside the Hoop
http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms-2.html

Farms of Tomorrow:
Community Supported Farms, Farm Supported Communities
http://www.chiron-communications.com/farms-1.html



RESOURCES


State of the World 2003 - Worldwatch Institute
http://www.worldw

Re: BD Farming in America

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I think we are wishing for an outdated paradigm when we expect to have some
top down organizational figure heads baby us through our movement. This is
the era of the conciousness soul, the age of individuality. What ever is
lacking in the movement is no one fault but our own. Christy


Tell me more about this, Christy. I don't really understand what you 
are saying in the paragraph above, and, to me, it comes across as 
uncharacteristically mean spirited.

I mean, just what am I to make from that paragraph in the face of, 
for example, 700 BD farms and 2,000,000 BD ACRES in Australia (within 
just one BD association!) under exaclty the sort or organization you 
seem to decry?

Where are you drawing this 'the age of individuality' from? The age 
of broken relationships, broken homes, broken communities, broken 
clergy and so on.  I guess I read too much Wendell Berry, but I 
thought the idea of 'age of individuality' and 'maximum personal 
freedom' were concepts sown in us by the system that finds both 
democracies and 'free people' easier to control than people who can 
still access the traditional support relationships of husband/wife, 
home/neighborhood, church/community, city/county and so on. (It's not 
wasted on anyone how much the New World Order fears countries 
organized in explicitly top down arrangements, is it?

Penn State and Biodynamic Viticuluture Jan 28-29, Middletown, PA

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January 28 - 29 
A meeting to discuss alternative viticulture will be offered by Penn 
State Cooperative Extension of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The goal of 
the meeting is to bring perspective and information to the often 
fuzzy realm of non-conventional commercial viticulture, including 
sustainable, organic and biodynamic methods. Recently, there has been 
a tremendous interest in these new techniques of farming wine grapes. 
It is the objective of this meeting to give sound and practical 
information on subjects that exist outside of our customary 
agricultural experience, and are too often tainted with hyperbole. A 
group of serious individuals, researchers, growers, vendors and 
extension agents will present their views and experience of this new 
frontier in grape growing. It is hoped that, armed with this 
information, new and experienced growers will be able to decide for 
themselves if they want to employ these practices on their own farms.

This is a day and a half meeting, which will be held at the Spring 
Garden Conference Center in Middletown, PA, just east of Harrisburg. 
The cost will be approximately $100 per person for both days, which 
includes coffee, continental breakfast, drinks and snacks on both 
days, and lunch on the first day.  A list of motels and restaurants 
in the area list will be provided with registration materials. For 
more information and registration, please contact Mark Chien at 
717-394-6851 or email [EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Speakers will include Gunther Hauk of the Pfeiffer Center (NY), 
William Brinton from Woods End Research Lab (ME), Vicki Bess from BBC 
Labs (AZ), Al MacDonald, president of Oregon LIVE, Alan York, a 
private biodynamic consultant (CA), Alice Wise, viticulture extension 
agent for Cornell University on Long Island (NY), Don Lotter from the 
Rodale Institute (PA), as well as local (eastern U.S.) growers with 
experience in using alternative viticulture in their vineyards

 Travis and Elwin Stewart will offer updates on their research 
activities, including results from two years of compost trials on 
commercial cooperator plots.

Pre-registration deadline is Jan 17.

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Fwd: Solid Cow Manure

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Kia ora all

This morning I went into the cowshed and was somewhat amazed by the =
sudden difference in the consistency of the manure.  Having had a =
difficult 9 months with the cows healthwise it just seemed that this =
morning their manure was like it should be rather than the green =
rainbows that they have been expelling most of the time.

This really has me wondering if there has been any cause for this as it =
was such a sudden change and with them all. =20

Maybe it was because Fonterra (NZ's giant dairy co-operative) have just =
been and signed me up today to be processing our organic milk =
separately.  We are # 14 in a country of 14,000 dairy farms. =20

Have a wonderful 2003 everyone and may your dreams come true like mine =
have today

Kia kaha

Diana

ADMIN: Science article on BD

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Nice Post, Kara, but, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE **NEVER** send files or 
attachments to BD Now!

If you need to show graphics to BD Now!, please publish them on the 
web youself and refer to them OR contact me off line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
and ask me to publish them for you.

Graphics clog the net, graphics choke low-bandwidth readers, and, 
graphics can carry VIRUS.

Thanks

-Allan

About BD500

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http://www.kheper.net/ecognosis/essays/Biodynamic_500.html You'll 
find the referenced illustrations at this link, also -AB)

About Biodynamic "500" spray.

This article orginally appeared in the Anthroposphical Journel of 
Australia in February 1991. It was subsquently picked up by the 
biodynamic gardening journal in the USA.

Mentioned in this article are Marion and Walter Burley Griffin. They 
created the forms and plans that have resulted in modern Canberra - 
the National Capital of Australia. Much of the material in this web 
site is related to them. Both were deeply into the spiritual aspects 
of reality. Oral history tapes about their personalities exists in 
the National Library of Australia. In time more about them will 
appear in the Ecognosis material.



Over two thousand Australians and New Zealanders use Biodynamic "500" 
spray on their land. The spray is one of Rudolf Steiner's ideas. It 
is made by filling cow horns with fresh cow manure and burying them 
in Winter. In Spring when the horns are dug up the manure has been 
transformed into the crumbly mixture known as "500" - the Soil 
Preparation. Correctly stored it keeps for years. Sprayed onto the 
soil in Spring it - in some mysterious way - improves the soil and 
the quality of the plants which grow in it.

What follows is an account of my experiences with "500" about ten 
years ago. It was an experience that was both practical and 
spiritual. At the time I was a concerned Anthroposophist who felt 
that I needed to make the Spiritual aspects of my experience 
available to readers of the Australian Anthroposophical Journal - who 
hopefully will not come to the conclusion that I am always "Off with 
the Fairies".

It all started about 5 years before I wrote the article when we 
visited Robert Walcott, a long time user of "500". His farm is a 
sheep property on the Southern Highlands of NSW, Australia. The 
property, to my slightly experienced but amateur eye did not appear 
to be anything special, it suffered from too many sheep and a run of 
dry years. At that stage I had no confidence and little knowledge 
about biodynamics or "500" spray. When pressed by my host I mumbled 
things like, "Interesting," and "Oh yes, it is QUITE possible."

We forgot our cooler box in the Walcott's kitchen. In it we had 
bananas, bread, a bit of cheese and some apples. Later the cooler was 
returned to us. The puzzling thing was that nothing in the cooler had 
gone off - everything was fine and eatable even after a week of 
sitting in the enclosed box in a corner of a heated kitchen. 
Peculiar, "Well," I said to myself, "It may be due to the quartz 
crystals which abound on the farm or to the "500" spray or to God 
knows what." I now know that I was almost right ... but therein lays 
more of the tale.

Rob gave us ajar of "500" preparation neatly tucked into a box of 
peat moss. Remaining cynical, I put it in my cellar and left it there 
for two years. This year we had a wet, warm Spring, and so we decided 
it was time to try "500".

It was the 6th of October, 1990, at about eight in the evening. The 
moon was full in the sky. Dew was starting to fall and. the earth, in 
the jargon of Biodynamics, was "open" or "breathing in". After a 
pleasant dinner on the veranda we hunted up a bucket, poured some 
"baby bottle"-warm rain water into it and dug through the kitchen 
drawers for a long handled wooden jam making spoon. We crumbled a bit 
of "500" Preparation into the bucket. Then we started to stir. There 
were four of us and we stir-red for the recommended hour. After about 
half an hour we noticed a smell - it was a bit like frangipani - a 
pleasant sweet smell and not at all what one expects to get from cow 
manure.

We stirred in the prescribed way, clockwise and anticlockwise forming 
a whirlpool in the Centre of the bucket. The biodynamic literature 
suggests that this whirlpool is a chaos situation. Seemingly, the 
forces of the cosmos and the stars enter the mixture during the 
stirring to activate the energies that were locked in the specially 
buried cow manure. Later, when the mixture is sprayed, it is said 
that the captured cosmic and earth forces are released to enliven the 
soil and give strength to plants. This is an interesting picture but 
one I doubt after my subsequent experiences.

At this stage I was still both skeptical and curious. I have been 
divining water and dowsing Geomantic energies for many years. So I 
hunted up a pendulum and held it over the mixture, curious to see 
what sort of reaction would result. I got no reaction at all. Now, I 
expected a strong clockwise or anticlockwise rotation of the pendulum 
over the bucket. Surely you would expect that, I mean here we had 
been stirring water in a bucket for an hour creating whirlpools in 
either direction but no, I did not get that. What I got was nothing, 
a complete blankness - most peculiar, because even an unstirred 
bucket of water has radiations that affect a pendul

Fwd: From Mark Moody

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OK - I'll let you know what happens when you Americans get out of bed and I
get a reply to my fax.

WENDELL BERRY: The Failure of War

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from RESURGENCE #215 http://resurgence.gn.apc.org/home.htm

THE FAILURE of WAR by Wendell Berry


IF YOU KNOW even as little history as I do, it is hard not to doubt
the efficacy of modern war as a solution to any problem except that
of retribution - the 'justice' of exchanging one damage for another.

Apologists for war will insist that war answers the problem of
national self-defence. But the doubter, in reply, will ask what
extent the cost even of a successful war of national defence - in
life, money, material, foods, health, and (inevitably) freedom - may
amount to a national defeat. National defence through war always
involves some degree of national defeat. This is a paradox:
militarisation in defence of freedom reduces the freedom of the
defenders. There is a fundamental inconsistency between war and
freedom.

In a modern war, fought with modern weapons and on the modern scale,
neither side can limit to 'the enemy' the damage that it does. These
wars damage the world. We know enough by now to know that you cannot
damage a part of the world without damaging all of it. Modern war has
not only made it impossible to kill 'combatants' without killing
'noncombatants': it has made it impossible to damage your enemy
without damaging yourself.

That many have considered the increasing unacceptability of modern
warfare is shown by the language of the propaganda surrounding it.
Modern wars have characteristically been fought to end war; they have
been fought in the name of peace. Our most terrible weapons have been
made, ostensibly, to preserve and assure the peace of the world. "All
we want is peace," we say as we increase relentlessly our capacity to
make war.

Yet at the end of a century in which we have fought two wars to end
war and several more to prevent war and preserve peace, and in which
scientific and technological progress have made war ever more
terrible and less controllable, we still, by policy, give no
consideration to non-violent means of national defence. We do indeed
make much of diplomacy and diplomatic relations, but by diplomacy we
mean invariably ultimatums for peace backed by the threat of war. It
is always understood that we stand ready to kill those with whom we
are 'peacefully negotiating'.

OUR CENTURY OF war, militarism and political terror has produced
great - and successful - advocates of true peace, among whom Mohandas
Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., are the paramount examples. The
considerable success that they achieved testifies to the presence, in
the midst of violence, of an authentic and powerful desire for peace
and, more important, of the proven will to make the necessary
sacrifices. But so far as our government is concerned, these men and
their great and authenticating accomplishments might as well never
have existed. To achieve peace by peaceable means is not yet our
goal. We cling to the hopeless paradox of making peace by making war.

Which is to say that we cling in our public life to a brutal
hypocrisy. In our century of almost universal violence of humans
against fellow humans, and against our natural and cultural
commonwealth, hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition
to violence has been selective or merely fashionable. Some of us who
approve of our monstrous military budget and our peacekeeping wars
nonetheless deplore 'domestic violence' and think that our society
can be pacified by 'gun control'. Some of us are against capital
punishment but for abortion. Some of us are against abortion but for
capital punishment.

One does not have to know very much or think very far in order to see
the moral absurdity upon which we have erected our sanctioned
enterprises of violence. Abortion-as-birth-control is justified as a
'right', which can establish itself only by denying all the rights of
another person, which is the most primitive intent of warfare.
Capital punishment sinks us all to the same level of primal
belligerence, at which an act of violence is avenged by another act
of violence.

What the justifiers of these acts ignore is the fact -
well-established by the history of feuds, let alone the history of
war - that violence breeds violence. Acts of violence committed in
'justice' or in affirmation of 'rights' or in defence of 'peace' do
not end violence. They prepare and justify its continuation.

The most dangerous superstition of the parties of violence is the
idea that sanctioned violence can prevent or control unsanctioned
violence. But if violence is 'just' in one instance as determined by
the state, why might it not also be 'just' in another instance, as
determined by an individual? How can a society that justifies capital
punishment and warfare prevent its justifications from being extended
to assassination and terrorism? If a government perceives that some
causes are so important as to justify the killing of children, how
can it hope to prevent the contagion of its logic spreading to its
citizens - or to its citizens' children?

If we give

Fwd: A REAL RAW DEAL

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impact his dairy products are having in the modern marketplace.

Topics will include why the McAfee dairy farm does not confine its
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ADMIN: Watch out for address book scam!

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This is unverified by me, folks, but I've received the mailing and, 
in my innocence, was saved from downloading the software by the fact 
that it is not Mac-compatible. Any one as narcisstic as I is in 
danger of being scammed by this site, it appears!

-Allan



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RESEND: Koliskos on 'Smallest Entities In Agriculture'

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The following is from "Agriculture of Tomorrow" by Eugen and Lily 
Kolisko. This title is out of print and is reproduced here for 
purposes of education.

"Today, people in general are little inclined to detach themselves 
from the claims of the material world and to seek the spiritual 
directly in the physical world around them . . .

It is, however, precisely from observing directly the 
sense-perceptible that a right path will open out for those who wish 
now to work entirely within the fild of present-day science, if they 
really seek to discover the spritual there. It can be done  . .


Chapter 1
INTRODUCTION

It may seem strange to speak about "smallest entities" in 
agriculture, but it is absolutely necessary that farmers and 
gardeners learn to understand this important phenomenon.

The problem of minutest quantities, or better "smallest entities," 
was studied from 1920 in the Biological Institute at the Goetheanum 
(Stuttgart) and later on in the Biological Institute at Bray, Berks. 
The attempt to find a remedy for "Footand-Mouth Disease" led us to 
the question of "smallest entities." What is the right concentration 
of the specific remedy to be injected? Rudolf Steiner suggested that 
the effect of different dilutions on germinating plants should be 
studied. From 1920 until today we have been studying this interesting 
subject. One might think that this is a medical problem rather than 
an agricultural one. Of course it is a medical problem in that we are 
looking for a certain remedy, but it becomes an agricultural problem 
as well if we study how the growth of plants is affected by 
substances which are diluted, or rather potentised.

What does "potentise" mean? Exactly what the word itself expresses. 
In potentising a substance, we increase its effectiveness. We make 
the substance more potent. The strange thing about potentising is, 
that we have to reduce the amount of the substance which we want to 
make more potent. In everyday life we are accustomed to think: if we 
want to make something more effective, we have to take a bigger 
quantity. For  instance, if we want to make coffee sweeter, we take a 
second teaspoonful of sugar. In homeopathy we are told just the 
opposite thing. If we want a stronger action from a certain remedy, 
we have to potentise it, that means dilute it with water or alcohol, 
again and again, in a rhythmical way.

This is the first and most important thing we have to learn: to 
discriminate between matter and force. Matter can act in two 
different ways: as matter, or as the specific force behind the 
matter. In everyday life we ask only for matter, for quantity, and we 
do not even stop to think, that there is something like a force which 
is active in every kind of matter. Sugar for instance is not only 
sweet  that is one quality we discover with our sense of taste. 
Besides being sweet, sugar has many other qualities which we are 
unable to taste but none-the-less have definite reactions within our 
organism.

Now we must raise another important question: What do we want in 
reality? The substance itself, or the inner quality of the substance?

For instance, a farmer may be convinced that his soil needs lime. How 
does he solve the problem? Usually he digs a large amount of lime 
into the soil. Again and again he will dig in lime.

Let us now study the influence of "smallest entities" of lime on the 
germination of wheat. We put a certain number of seeds in a control 
dish with water. Then we dissolve one gram of calcium hydroxide in 
ten parts of water and shake the mixture for some minutes; then we 
have the first potency or a dilution of 1: 10.

We take I part of the first potency; mix it with 9 parts of water; 
shake for the same time, and we have the second potency, or a 
dilution of 1:100. We may continue this process of diluting as long 
as we like. Usually we make our experiments up to the 60th potency. 
Having finished all the potencies, we insert the carefully selected 
seeds, and, a few days later we compare the results.

The seeds inserted in he first potency of lime scarcely start to 
germinate. The effect of lime in such a high concentration  is thus 
proven unfavorable. The seeds in the 2nd potency start to sprout, 
while while those in the water control are much more advanced in 
growth.

The 3rd potency is more advanced than the 2nd, the 4th is of about 
the same value as the water control, the 5th already surpasses the 
water control and has definitely better developed roots.

The 6th potency is more advanced than the 5th, and the 7th and 8th 
potencies show still more increase in growth. That means, if we 
observe these few potencies, that a dilution of 1: 100,000,000 of 
lime produces a much better growth than a lower potency. The lime 
works much more powerfully 9 we use a minute quantity. Whenever we 
have to introduce lime into the soil we need not dig in a ,'large 
quantity of the solid matter, but spray a certain potency carefully 

FWD: HAARP Concerns Russian Duma

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>From Tom Schley:
>>
>>US HAARP Weapon Development Concerns Russian Duma
>>
>>Interfax News Agency
>>8-9-2
>>
>> MOSCOW (Interfax) - The Russian State Duma has expressed concern
>>about the USA's programme to develop a qualitatively new type of
>>weapon.
>>
>> "Under the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Programme
>>(HAARP) [website address:
>>http://server5550.itd.nrl.navy.mil/projects/haarp/],
> 
>>the USA is
>>creating new integral
>>geophysical weapons that may influence the near-Earth medium with
>>high-frequency radio waves," the State Duma said in an appeal
>>circulated on Thursday [8 August].
>>
>> "The significance of this qualitative leap could be compared to
>>the transition from cold steel to firearms, or from conventional
>>weapons to nuclear weapons. This new type of weapons
>>differs from previous types in that the near-Earth medium becomes at
>>once an object of direct influence and its component.
>>
>> These conclusions were made by the commission of the State Duma's
>>international affairs and defence committees, the statement reads.
>>
>> The committees reported that the USA is planning to test three
>>facilities of this kind. One of them is located on the military
>>testing ground in Alaska and its full-scale tests are to begin in
>>early 2003. The second one is in Greenland and the third one in Norway.
>>
>> "When these facilities are launched into space from Norway, Alaska
>>and Greenland, a closed contour will be created with a truly
>>fantastic integral potential for influencing the near-Earth
>>medium," the State Duma said.
>>
>> The USA plans to carry out large-scale scientific experiments
>>under the HAARP programme, and not controlled by the global
>>community, will create weapons capable of breaking radio
>>communication lines and equipment installed on spaceships and
>>rockets, provoke serious accidents in electricity networks and in oil
>>and gas pipelines and have a negative impact on the
>>mental health of people populating entire regions, the deputies said.
>>
>> They demanded that an international ban be put on such large-scale
>>geophysical experiments.
>>
>> The appeal, signed by 90 deputies, has been sent to President
>>Vladimir Putin, to the UN and other international organizations, to
>>the parliaments and leaders of the UN member countries,
>>to the scientific public and to mass media outlets.
>>
>> Among those who signed the appeal are Tatyana Astrakhankina,
>>Nikolay Kharitonov, Yegor Ligachev, Sergey Reshulskiy, Vitaliy
>>Sevastyanov, Viktor Cherepkov, Valentin Zorkaltsev and
>>Aleksey Mitrofanov.
>>
>>
>>
>>Dr. Nick Begich, Author
>>Earthpulse Press Incorporated
>>PO Box 201393
>>Anchorage, Alaska  99520 USA
>>www.earthpulse.com
>>Phone: 1-907-249-9111
>>Fax: 1-907-696-1277
>>
>>Dr. Nick Begich founder of Earthpulse Press and co-author of Angel's
>>Don't Play This HAARP and Earth Rising the Revolution, delivered a
>>lecture on Arctic issues and HAARP in
>>Brussels in the European Parliament on May 5-7, 1997 at the 12th
>>General Assembly Globe International. In attendance were several
>>members of the Russian Duma including Vitaliy
>>Sevastyanov on of the signers listed below. Dr. Begich's book, an
>>exposé published in September 1996, launched the international
>>investigation into the issues surrounding HAARP. Begich
>>has continued to follow HAARP and related military technologies since
>>1994. He is a frequently called upon expert in these areas. His work
>>led to early political efforts in the European
>>Parliament which resulted in their adoption of resolutions also in
>>opposition to HAARP in January 1998. Begich has appeared on BBC-TV,
>>CBC-TV, TeleMundo, Spiegal TV, Fuji TV and
>>others throughout the world and continues to report on these and
>>other technology subjects.
>>
>>ACTION ALERT: Please pass this to your friends, radio contacts and
>>political leaders...Thank you!

Fwd: re:lime and humus

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>Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2002 12:55:16 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:lime and humus
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Dear Lance, et. al,
>
>As matter of fact, I had this same question a few
>weeks ago;  does lime eat humus?
>
>First, I don't think RS was addressing the types of
>type we have offered to us today; bagged and rated.
>It struck me as odd, but in the lectures he seems to
>be addressing different forms of calcium.
>
>This morning I was reading and just happened to come
>across the definition.  Industry produces the bagged
>lime we get today by the heating process; taking rock
>CaCo3 and turns it into CA-Co in powdered form.
>
>Viktor Schaubeger, who was a bit more radical in his
>approach,  states that we never want to put anything
>on the soil that has been through an extreme heat
>process.  He also states that this destroys the soil
>mechanism.
>
>Lance, your remarks on the fires in the west do seem
>to have some validity.  However,  I don't think we are
>getting the entire picture.  It took me years of hard
>study to understand what was going on.  Bear with me
>please.
>
>As probably everyone on this list knows, both the
>Egyptian and Mayan Calendars end in the year 2012. The
>problem is trying to figure out, from a Macro point of
>view, exactly what is going on.  Well, the Polonesians
>did a lot of Island hopping across the Pacific;
>following Islands along a volcanic ridge.  Some of
>them ended up in the Hawaiian Isles.  Then, somewhere
>in the 14 to 1500s these extremely active volcanoes
>went dormant.
>
>I came across an article a little while back stating
>that Geologists had been able to track a plume of
>volcanic silica traveling all the way from the east
>coast of Africa, across central America, down to the
>Hawaiian Isles.  However, all this doesn't help
>understand the western fires does it.
>
>Well, every now and then I check the USGS site for
>lists of current earthquakes.  I found out later
>though that some of the activity is not being reported
>there.  Specifically, Mt Hood in Oregon is rising.
>Some believe that a giant magma deposit is pushing
>upward.
>
>So if magma has once again began to move within the
>western states, this could well help trigger the
>drying of the soils and subsequent fires there.
>
>This is not the ultimate answer though; just another
>cause/effect.  The real question is how an ancient
>culture had a clock or calendar that would predict
>when these phenomena would again take place to change
>the face of the earth.  This is quite a bit of a
>different change as opposed to those who use
>depreciation accounting to change the balance line to
>make themselves look better.
>
>Michael.
>
>
>
>
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Hugh Courtney on "Spirituality"

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HUGH COURTNEY: We talk about non-physical forces that eminate from 
the cosmos and from other beings here on Earth. Steiner talks about a 
whole hierarchy of spiritual beings that we are no longer aware of in 
our present age, but humanity did have this awaremenss for eons. 
Steiner was one of the people who came into the world with this 
awareness, but he schooled himself scientifically so that he would 
not be trapped by illusion. As I said earlier, one of the problems 
with clairvoyance is that one can convince themselves that what they 
see is the reality, whereas they are actuallly projecting their own 
inward illusions. Steiner schooled his clairvoyance along with his 
excellent scientific training. He was very conversant with what was 
going on in science in his time, including the work of Einstein, 
Freud, and others. As I mentioned, Steiner was also the editor of the 
scientific work of Goethe. Goethe not only came up with a theory of 
color, but also he developed theories of evolution that were very 
opposed to the Darwinian theories. Gothe is a fascinating individual 
and Stiner understood him.

 From the Hugh Courtney interview in the August 2002 ACRES USA: The 
Voice of Eco-Agriculture.

If you don't subscribe to ACRES USA, you're missing an incredible 
source of information about ecological farming. What better time to 
subscribe than right now so you can get this landmark interview with 
the founder of the Josephine Porter Institute of Applied Biodynamics?

Check ACRES out at http://www.acresusa.com

-Allan

Fwd: re:fresh nettle tea

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>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:fresh nettle tea
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Allan,Pls Fwd:
>
>When you say "formic acid around plants",  in
>association with the bees, wouldn't this imply the
>flower specifically? I wonder what effect this has on
>fruit formation?
>
>Michael
>
>ideas of the Ag Lectures with those he gave on the
>bees with Stinging Nettle substances providing a
>subtle link. >>
>
>The bees association to formic acid [in its sting] and
>the sting in nettles is the same.  This fine
>homepathic presence of formic acid around the plants
>from the buzzing around of the bees is very important.
>  The lack of bees needs to be made up for, possibly
>nettles tea is an important link.  Since the decline
>of bees I have noticed a tremendous increase in the
>number of ants on the farm.  Phenomenal amounts of
>ants, nests in the driveways, fields, and compost.
>Put a board or an implement down and a nest appears
>underneath it.  Ants also provide this fine dilution
>of formic acid in their bite and for marking their trails...SStorch
>
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Fwd: re:fresh nettle tea

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>Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 08:27:45 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:fresh nettle tea
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>I was really hoping that someone would be able to connect Steiner's 
>ideas of the Ag Lectures with those he gave on the bees with 
>Stinging Nettle substances providing a subtle link.
>
>Michael.
>
>
>
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Glen Atkinson / Elaine Ingham / Hugh Lovel / Hugh Courtney /James DeMeo / Mark Shepard / Steve Storch / Jerry Brunetti / Will Winterand more featured Oct 4-6 in Loudoun Co. VA

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I'm a solid supporter of RDI and their Bioneers events, so please 
don't take the following wrong.

I just wanted to remind everyone that they can spend 3 days with  the 
above speakers for a measily $125 if they register for the 7th Annual 
Mid-Atlantic Biodynamic Food and Farming  Conference in the near 
future..

With the exception of the speaker the BDA is providing, this 
conference is presented entirely through the personal funds and 
efforts of the Ballietts (who carry deep gratitude for what the 
speakers go through to bring their messages of holistic natural 
farming to the attendees of this event). Your early registration will 
help take some of the financial burden off from our household. In 
return, we are offering a $25 discount from the $150 registration fee 
for the time being.

There's still plenty of room at the conference but the current plan 
is to limit attendees to 100 so that the quality of the experience is 
maximized for everyone.

To register, contact me on-line at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or 
call me at 540 668 6165. (Allan Balliett 36824 Pinehill Lane 
Purcellville, VA 20132)

Free camping at the beautiful Blue Ridge Center www.brces.org

I hope to have the webpage up by this evening. 
http://www.gardeningforthefuture.com

-Allan

Glen Atkinson / Elaine Ingham featured in "Wisdom at the End ofthe Hoe" Event October 22 - 24 (in California)

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Wisdom at the End of a Hoe

Soil and Soul:
>From Microcosmos To Cosmic Forces
October 22-23, 2002
$195
Featuring: Glen Atkinson and Elaine Ingham
Bay Area location to be determined

More information coming soon..
email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with questions
download a printable workshop flyer here

Two extraordinary teachers share their innovative research, 
observations and practical techniques of holistic and dynamic farming 
systems at this exciting workshop. Dr. Elaine Ingham and Glen 
Atkinson share their mastery of the invisible worlds from microbes to 
planetary energies in one of the most mind-expanding combinations of 
science and spirit we've offered. Their insights into life force and 
life cycles, and the dynamics and energetics inherent in them, 
provide powerful tools to help develop farming systems that produce 
balance, vitality and good health in soil, plants and people.


Mary-Howell R. Martens' article on Elaine Ingham
The Soil Food Web
Tuning in to the World Beneath Our Feet


Elaine Ingham, President of Soil Food Web, Inc. and Affiliate 
Professor at the Southern Cross University in Australia has taught 
and consulted world wide on the soil food web, including working with 
strawberry growers in the Salinas Valley. She has been able to reduce 
chemical use and increase yields by testing and evaluating the soil 
food web on individual farms and making adjustments by applying 
compost and compost tea. Compost has long been understood to be an 
excellent soil amendment with its ability to inoculate the soil with 
beneficial microbes and add humus and nutrients. However, large-scale 
farming operations often have not been able to produce or purchase 
sufficient quantities of compost.

The 2001 Soil Food Web workshop showed farmers varioustechniques of 
strengthening the soil food web, including, how to make and apply 
compost tea concentrates that require smaller amounts of compost as 
starter material for the tea. These teas have a broad use, as a 
direct application for disease control and are cost effective, 
non-toxic and inoculate the soil or leaf surface with beneficial 
microbial populations.



"I had been waiting to connect with Elaine Ingham. Not only is she 
brilliant, but she is an excellent lecturer - really a joy to listen 
to. Her information will be very helpful when I set up the composting 
courses for San Mateo County. Thank you for putting this particular 
course together." Alane O'Rielly Weber



Glen Atkinson has been working with Garuda Biodynamics since he came 
to New Zealand from Australia in 1976. His interest has been mostly 
focused towards developing the turn of the century German 
philosopher, Rudolf Steiner's Biodynamic agriculture and medical 
indications using his understanding of traditional Astrology. This 
has lead to a simple yet innovative theory and philosophy as a basis 
for many practical activities, which take the form an astrological 
and biodynamic horticultural consulting business, using a specially 
developed homeopathic essences system to bring out the best in both 
people and plants.

"Glen Atkinson is an organic and biodynamic consultant to farmers and 
herb growers and a soil fertility specialist. He has written widely 
on organics, biodynamics, holistic agriculture, environment and 
astrologyŠ. It is the vision of the complete environment that allows 
him to work toward the balance he believes is necessary to achieve 
the abundance inherent to all systems that exist in universal 
harmony."
Acres U.S.A.

Fwd: farmers' market and farmer stories wanted

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>Subject: farmers' market and farmer stories wanted
>Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 11:34:59 -0400
>X-Priority: 1
>
>Friends of farmers' markets,
>
>Apologies for the short notice, but if you can reply to this early 
>the week of the 29th, and not later than Friday the 2nd, I'll be 
>grateful.
>
>I need your help in identifying the best and most interesting 
>farmers' markets and food producers in the country.
>
>I'm shooting a pilot episode for a TV series called Farmers' 
>Daughter, which we're hoping to sell to a US network. It will be 
>similar to the 13-part British series I hosted, Farmers' Market. In 
>each episode of that series, I go to a farmers' market, meet 
>producers, visit a particuluar farm, learn about how the food is 
>raised, and then cook something at the market. The British series 
>explores food, farming, environmental, and cooking issues, from why 
>buy local to why beef should be grass fed. The US series will be 
>similar, though we may cook at farms, rather than at the market.
>
>For the first episode, we've chosen two farmers, one beef and one 
>vegetable, who sell at a farmers' market in Northern VA, the oldest 
>market in the region. We'll need ideas for another dozen episodes, 
>with one market and two producers per episode. We won't do another 
>Virginia farm, and we probably won't repeat beef, though there are 
>many variations on vegetables we might do, so if you know an 
>interesting salad greens grower, or chilli pepper master, let me 
>know.
>
>I'm looking for about two dozen outstanding producers at a dozen 
>farmers' markets with interesting stories for the rest of the 
>series.  We will need to achieve the following:
>
>a) regional spread, including variations on markets (big city, small 
>town, etc)
>b) a range of produce (fish, lamb, poultry, game, mushrooms, wine, 
>juice, sprouts, cheese, butter, milk, ice cream, grains, hot peppers)
>c) the producer must be bona fide, use his own ingredigents in 
>processed foods (eg milk for ice cream), and sell at a producer-only 
>farmers' market
>
>If the producer story is exceptional, the producer might be direct 
>marketing some other way, like an outstanding CSA, or, say, a 
>fisherman with her own boat who sells sustainably caught fish and is 
>a great cook. Be generous with your recommendations, as long as they 
>fit the theme of regional, sustainable farm produce, sold in the 
>alternative, not large-scale commercial, venues.
>
>If this request could be posted in an appropriate place (like 
>farmers' market organizers' offices or bulletins, the public markets 
>forum, or the national network of farmers' markets), I would be 
>grateful.  Please forward this to anyone you know who runs an 
>outstanding farmers' market or knows outstanding growers.
>
>For a posting, you can simply use this note, tweaked. Or I could 
>write a 'Call for outstanding farmers' markets and outstanding 
>producer stories' bulletin, with my contact details attached.
>
>I hope you can help. Thanks very much,
>
>Best wishes, Nina
>
>
>NINA PLANCK
>1644 Monroe St, NW
>Washington, DC 20010-1804
>202 232 6042
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Bad Air Reports

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>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 06:35:57 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Bad Air Reports
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hugh Lovel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Question; how do  local news agencies know in advance to publish 
>their warnings concerning air pollution hazards?
>
>Answer;  drive around in the morning and observe road surface.  It 
>appears that trucks are dropping hazardous waste onto road surfaces 
>to evaporate with the rising sun.  However, it isn't being dropped 
>onto main thorough fares, but onto less noticable neighborhood 
>streets.
>
>M.
>
>
>
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From Michael Smith: FWD: Right, No Drought in SE!

[bdnow]

Allan,

Please Fwd:

Dear Hugh,

What is happening is that municipalities are sucking up entire 
rivers; not replacing water.  This gives the impression of drought, 
when resources are diverted.  I read that Atlanta's projected reserve 
date of 2020 for water has been downgraded to 2012 (to run out of 
water).  What they are planning is to tap the Savanah.

Update;  for the first time since the 1700's healing springs in the 
low country have gone dry.(Earthquake hunters take your queue from 
this!).   Also,  rainfall amounts in the month of May were equivilent 
of May of 1895(another possible clue?).  The natural resources 
combined with the soil type here will not support the logistics of 
Northeastern and Western grid populations.  Hmmm, I guess something 
catastrophic, not found in recent memory will have to occur for the 
point to be made.  This is actually for the people who have "never 
heard this before".

Michael.



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Fwd: Cabbage Worm (?)

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>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Thomas Schley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Cabbage Worm
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"
>
>Can anyone help me with what I think is cabbage worm?  My kale leaves
>are full of holes.  Could the white butterfly with dark dots on its
>wings I see flying around be the cabbage worm?
>
>I tried spraying with  24 hour nettle tea as suggested by the Oregon
>BD Assoc. website.  It hasn't helped yet.  A neighbour says I can
>borrow some of his BT to spray on.  He says it is completely organic.
>My question is, is its use allowed for certified BDers?  I would
>rather stick with the nettle tea until I know more about it and how
>it could upset things in my garden.
>
>Thanks, Tom

MARK PURDEY Fwd: pilferers and plagerists, et al

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>
>
>
>Hi Allan,
>
>I've just been corresponding with Mark from Wisconsin about 
>plagerists which you are apparently debating at the moment on BD 
>Now. This arose after a Colorado journalist had given oxygen to some 
>plagerists of my work - despite having interviewed me at length, he 
>obviously decided that his journalistic license and success would 
>personally prosper if he donated all of my work to a few docters 
>rather than just a mere farmer !!! Please publish the enclosed 
>letter which i have just written to Mark - if you want. It seems 
>that he has suffered the same outrage in his past.
>
>take care ,
>
>Mark
>
>
>
>Subj: Re: Franklin Carter Article FYI there is another part of this 
>just pri...
>Date: 15/07/02 20:03:10 GMT Daylight Time
>From: MadCowPurdey
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>Hi mark,
>
>Yea, please put up my comments to BD Now about the plagerists and 
>cuckoos which seem to currently predominate the whole scientific 
>scene. I am so bloody angry right now with this kind of treatment. 
>It will be great to meet with you and share our many common 
>interests and frustrations !! please send on the following 
>paragraphs too, as this whole issue needs to be sorted out on behalf 
>of so many genuine, more humble scientists ( and artists ) 
>worldwide. 
>
>It seems to be the people with passions - like yourself with 
>glycoproteins, etc - who  invariably become the people who make the 
>true advances in scientific knowledge at the end of the day. But 
>these creative thinkers are ironically the ones whose intuitive 
>energies and insight gets vampirized  - simply because they are 
>totally open with their research and findings, wanting to share and 
>discuss any new knowledge which they unearth on their investigative 
>journey, etc. But sadly this open approach ends up destroying them. 
>For most of the sociopathic, sharp suited ,senior scientists - if 
>you can call them scientists - are more interested in becoming front 
>page 'media tarts' than following their supposed pursuit of 
>scientific research and  advancement.
>
>Time and time again it is this same incestuous clique of expertise 
>who choose to abuse their position of power, considering it their 
>god given right to hijack every iota of original observation amongst 
>their students, outsider scientists, etc,  and then cuckoo it out as 
>their own discovery to the uninformed public. It is not uncommon to 
>watch those same "experts" use any opportunity that they can grasp 
>to publicly discredit the very originator of the work that they have 
>just plagerised. Its sick.
>
>Having chosen to farm like yourself - instead of carrying on up the 
>ladder of mainstream academia - I have regularly found my own 
>original work becoming primetime prey for these vultures ! They 
>consider it a "walk over" to plagerise a mere farmer - no second 
>thoughts about breaking all the rules of scientific ethics. Despite 
>having published peer reviewed, copyrighted scientific journal 
>articles to my name ( with acceptance dates, etc ), my former 
>vindictive critics are right now regurgitating out my precise 
>hypotheses from the ealy 1990s under under their own name !!!
>
>Just recently I found myself subjected to the mother of all 
>plagerist assaults. After some high profile media publicity 
>surrounding my BSE research findings, the UK government's Minister 
>of Research , Baroness Haymann, invited me to submit a three 
>research proposal designed around my working hypotheses. The 
>government assured me that the work would be funded providing the 
>project was formulated upon sound scientific protocols. I teamed up 
>with reputable academic universities, and the proposal took me about 
>300 hours to prepare. After sitting on my proposal for one and a 
>half years - by which time the public interest in my work had waned 
>- I was appalled to get my study rejected for a host of irrational, 
>irrelevant unscientific reasons. One reviewer of the study had 
>actually misread the number of samples I was taking per cluster area 
>by twenty times less than the actual number that I had proposed. The 
>government scientists then trumped this erroneous critique up as 
>their key k nock down point on which my grant was rejected. Even If 
>I had only proposed to take one sample per cluster area - as this 
>idiot was stating - they could have simply advised me to take more 
>!!! 
>
>Salt was truly rubbed into my wounds when I read how the government 
>had subsequently invited this same idiot to sit on their most senior 
>spongiform advisory committee.
>
>Worse still, my requests for personal data held on me which I filed 
>via the Data Protection Act, revealed that the government had 
>actually given a grant award for pursuing my work. Who had they 
>given it to ? the very reviewer of my work who had made such an ill 
>founded rejection !
>
>The government had therefore tricked me into handing over the 

MARK PURDEY: To The Ends Of The Earth 5

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>
>
>That morning , Kandy came to pick me up from the Mission. Former health
>officer on the miners' union, she had been emailing me for ages since my BBC
>film about Manganese and mad cow was shown on ABC Four Corners. Kandy had
>lived on Groote with her husband for twenty years, having done the hippy 
>trail around the world back in the 1970s. Both of them had been employed in
>the mines, and she had become concerned since her own blood tests had shown
>high manganese and low magnesium.
>
>  Kandy  took me to meet a group of concerned woman in the local hall of the
>mining village at Alyangula, many of whom had young children and were
>connected to the mine in some way.
>
>This seemed a good opportunity for promoting the importance of magnesium
>supplementation as a prevention against some forms of  manganese
>intoxication. Particularly important in any children who are concieved on
>this island. For when magnesium is low and manganese is high, manganese can
>substitute itself into vacant sites on magnesium activated enzymes, with
>disastrous repercussions causing total  inactivation of those enzymes as I
>have mentioned previously..
>
>What needs to be of the greatest concern to pregnant women, is the fact that
>manganese can induce mutations in genetic material when high manganese / low
>magnesium circumstances cause an  inactivation of  the magnesium ribosomal
>enzymes - producing the genetic problem of Groote syndrome that is so widely
>seen in the Aboriginal community down the road at Angurugu. Whilst
>Aboriginals are no doubt more susceptible to this specific mutation for
>dietary and genetic reasons, the Caucasian miners could well start developing
>these and other types of mutations in their offspring. 
>
>Amazingly, the potential of  high Manganese  to invoke mutations is
>ironically being exploited in pharmacology  to positive uses in the fight to 
>suppress the AIDS syndrome. Manganese can inactivate the magnesium activated
>enzyme, reverse transcriptase, once the manganese to magnesium ration gets
>too high in cells . This deprives the HIV virus of its ability to make
>multiple copies of itself ; thereby severely suppressing the development of
>the AIDS disease process.
>
>Kandy then took  me up to the headquarters of the mine, where I had been
>scheduled for a tour and then a meeting with the big brother of the company
>!! One of the Union bosses then drove me around the different mine sites to
>view the techniques of open cast mining - felling the forest, blasting,
>stripping off the upper crust of laterites, mining the black manganese
>dioxide ore bed, backfilling, then replanting.
>
>I must say that  I was highly impressed with the replanted rainforest after
>the mining operations had been  completed. Indigenous saplings had been
>utilized, managed and maintained by Aboriginal labour until it was certain
>that the trees had taken root. I honestly could not distinguish between
>original rainforest and replanted - save the height of the trees. It was
>overtly apparent that this mining corporation was not operating like some of
>the more dubious operations at work in S America and New Quinea.
>
>In the worker's canteen I met one of the miners who was pleased to meet with
>me. He had been bereaved and left with two young children a few years earlier
>after his wife had died of a motor neurone type disease identical to that of
>the Aboriginal's Groote syndrome. Maxine had worked in the laboratory at the
>mine where I was guided to next. I met the chief chemist in the lab who
>showed me the black samples of manganese dioxide - referred to as the black
>magic metal back in Byzantine times -which they spent all day analysing .
>
>Whilst it was reasonably apparent that the mining company had been doing a
>highly impressive job
>regarding the preservation of the environment and safeguarding some of the
>socio-economic interests of the Aboriginal community, I did however feel that
>there could have been an insidious problem with the issue of airborn
>manganese being kicked up by the dust factor. Although the mine had been
>attempting to dampen down the dust from time to time with water, there were
>storage heaps and tailings heaps of manganese very close to the village of
>Angurugu ( just a few hundred metres from some houses ) and storage heaps
>around the jetty very close to the mining village of Alyangula. All residents
>had been complaining of black dust settling inside their houses - even the
>houses that had air conditioning.
>
>  It did seem to me that the problems of this community were fundamentally
>based upon the high manganese bedrock so close to the surface - with all
>local water and home grown food supplies being contaminated. But the dust
>from the mining operation had considerably exacerbated the problem. It should
>be remembered that once manganese is inhaled - like aluminium and silver, etc
>- it does not need to travel to the lungs and cross into the blood,  etc; it
>can be abso

To the Ends of The Earth 4.

[bdnow]

I did not sleep again during the night.  The  heavenly sunset of last evening
had transformed into a hellfire night  The mob violence escalated once again,
as the night went on. A father had been charging around wielding a machete at
anybody who got in his way. The problem had fired up from a feud with his son
in law. More serious still, The police had also found an Aboriginal youngster
unconscious and close to death this morning  - he had been repeatedly cracked
over the head with a shovel according to bystanders' reports. But
unfortunately, the police find themselves unable to turn up until the next
day , usually long after the incident has abated. Wise policy, given that
there are only 12 of them stationed on this island to fend off a potential
maximum of 900 aggressors on any one occasion ! When  the police used to turn
up it simply inflamed the situation - the officers just ended up being
subjected to a totally uninhibited full frontal assault ; involving a diverse
armoury of spears , machetes, gunfire and  hatchets !

The miners had told me that if you intervene - much as I had felt compelled
to do the other night -  you get attacked yourself; not only by the
aggressors but by  those you are trying to protect.

The well travelled Missionary's son, Craig, and his wife Linda,  courageously
live in a house in the middle of Angurugu . I find it unbelievable that they
can carry on living  here, incarcerating themselves behind a dense
fortification of six tier barbed wire interwoven through chain link ; the
perimeter being manned by skulking dobermanns 24 hours a day . Craig told me
that Aboriginal communities are reputedly mildly aggressive, but that
Angurugu is exclusively excessively aggressive. It demonstrates by far the
most violent community in the whole of Australia; per violent incident per
head of population. And furthermore, the type of violence here could be
classed as a form of psychopathic insanity, particularly when it is
exacerbated by alcoholic consumption. "Its explosive" said Craig, only just
twenty but built like a tank. "Your country got into all that namby-pamby,
politically-correct judgemental criticism over the Duke of Edinburgh
associating spears with Aboriginees, etc, but he was bloody right. I get a
spear tossed at me once a week. You Pommies haven't got a clue. Its frontier
stuff out here,  buddy  "

I feel that the unique exposure of this village population to an environment
that probably carries the highest levels of  manganese in the world  (
500,000 ppm in the manganese bedrock top soils) has a major part to play in
the psychotic behaviour patterns of this community.

Post mortems of the brains of  miners who have died of  chronic manganese
induced neurodegenerative disorders  have revealed widespread loss of
serotonin receptors. Lack of serotonin has been well connected to the cause
of  bouts of  impulsive,criminally insane, aggressive behaviour  -  an
archetypal symptom of the manganese madness syndrome seen in miners the world
over. Alcoholic consumption is also well known to trigger off  unprovoked
aggression / rage in those who are genetically predisposed to low serotonin
turnover, thereby illustrating the devastating synergistic scenario once
chronic manganese and alcoholic exposure are simultaneously unleashed. Since
serotonin levels are under circadian regulation via the pineal gland , the
characteristic drop in serotonin levels during nightime in relation to day ,
probably explains the somewhat unique cycle of nightime violence and daytime
peace in this village.

These eco-toxicological  problems are further inflamed by the sheer
multicomplexity of the subjective, political and vested interest pressures
operating in the heartbeat of this community. They are so sensitively
interwoven, that the overall position adopted - or lack of position -is
highly insensitve to the health and well being of its people. Any resolutions
to the problems have been stalemated by these conflicting interests, enabling
the psycho-neuro problems of Angurugu to escalate to virtual crisis
proportions. The village could suicide itself in the end. The stalwart
presence of the Anglicare mission  is the only oasis of hope and light.

But a more objective third party needs to step in, to take the reins from the
subtle autocracy of the mining corporation that has insidiously taken over
from the vacuum of endemic Aboriginal anarchy that has long overuled this
island. Whilst many of the Corporation's efforts to integrate with the
Aboriginal community are highly admirable and unique as far as mining company
trackrecords go  - such as their immediate reafforestation of mined land with
indigenous saplings - they are  not equipped or indeed suitably skilled to
deal with the escalating problems. Furthermore, would the Corporation ever be
prepared to accept the responsibility for  the health effects, which, at the
very least, may well have been exacerbated by their very own mining
activities - eg manganese

MARK PURDEY: Motivation to write faster! ;-)

[bdnow]

Hi Gil,

Yes, I think it is a brilliant idea to get this horor story out. But I am
still writing it on a day to day basis as the events and research unfolds.

  I also want to be out of here before it becomes better publicised, because
the repercussions for me could be lethal. The politics is very sensitive
between the Mine corporation,  the Aboriginal community, the miners union and
the Mission. There is much conflict here, which becomes psychologically
explosive at the slightest suggestion of something that threatens the
aboriginal royalties from the mine - which supports the whole community here
- if you can call it a community. I do not want my work to be responsible for
lethal riots !!!

Whilst I know that the manganese is killing them, they do not want this
connection to threaten the one and only pillar of their economy -
particularly the elders. The disease they are getting - eg the mangnaese
intoxication - is conveniently scapegoated / discarded as a curse on those
who develop the disease, even though most recognise the truth deep down when
you talk to them.

Can you just hold fire on taking it to the senator for the moment. It is so,
so sensitive here and I do not want to blow my research boats by having
something go out on the open public circuit which, for instance,  unfairly
criticises the Mission here - although i do not agree with some of their
tactics in dealing with this horror story, they are overall doing an
amazingly brave and heroic job- most of them and the care workers get
attacked with spears, machettes, etc once in a while !! . So I better check
my script in relation to what I say about the Mission ( I think I am abit
cynical somewhere over their earlier work here ) before I say yes to you
sending it out from an unprotected web site.

Best Wishes,

Mark Purdey.

MARK PURDEY: To the Ends of The Earth 111

[bdnow]

To the Ends of the Earth 111.


The next morning the veranda was packing up tight  with the usual bustle of
ataxic victims, care workers or simply aboriginal kiddies homing in to the
centre for a focal place to gather at that time of day.

A monster of a pick up truck pulled up in front of the Mission, and out
stepped Dennis,  a goliath-like, "Apocalypse-now" type  of  character who
introduced himself as head of the local mineworker's Union. He was the sort
of guy you'd  expect to see bouncing at an LA night club rather than cruising
around in this sort of outback terrain. But Dennis,  had come to take me on
a tour of the mines and surrounding area  so I could get a broader range of
soil and vegetation samples, etc, in areas other than just Angurugu. His
interests lay with the fact that some of his white mining colleagues had also
died of similar wasting type neurodegenerative diseases , or were just
beginning to show the first symptoms of what they had considered to be
manganese intoxication.

Dennis himself was off work due to problems with gout and cardiac arrythmias.
Gout is caused by a build up  of urates in the system which commonly results
from a breakdown in the enzymic regulation of  the urea cycle and nitrogen
metabolism. Interestingly, chronic manganese intoxication interfers with the
enzyme arginase which plays a crucial role in this cycle, but since arginase
is an enzyme that is normally activated by the manganese 2+ form, problems
can still occur when a manganese intoxication  involves a transformation of
manganese 2+ into its 3+ form - a valency of manganese  which fails to
activate arginase into its fully fledged operational state. This can occur
when those who have been intoxicated by manganese are concurrently exposed to
devices that emit low frequencies of radiation - such a  frequency  being
absorbed by the manganese which consequently oxidizes the metal into its 3+
reactive form. Dennis not only lived adjoining a low frequency radio emitting
facility, but he also sat nextdoor to a low frequency radio phone system
hooked up in his work cab.

Intriguingly, Rudolf Steiner had proposed that the ox is driven mad when its
brain is overloaded with urates ! The visionary had obviously focused into
one of  the metabolic derangements that was later to become part of the
causal pathway in the pathogenesis of mad cow disease. I would totally agree
with Steiner's insight that the build up of urates - one of several side
effects resulting from manganese and oxidant intoxication - can induce a
major facet of the pathogenesis of spongiform and other degenerative
diseases.

Dennis was no time waster, and I quickly found myself whisked away in his
pick up truck into the remote outbacks of the rainforest. After a detour
inspecting some aboriginal handprint rock art cast across the face of
sandstone outcrops in the middle of the forest  , we came to the sight of the
former Emerald river mission . The old RAF runway was barely visible - a mere
straight track of crumbling concrete  that was becoming increasingly
encroached by the stringy back teetree boughs. I pondered on some of the
tense wartime dramas that must have occupied this space at one time, but it
was too long gone now - the last ghosts of the dogfights fought with the Japs
over the New Quinea jungle were long suffocated beneath the dense barricades
of cycad and prickly pandanus leaves retrieving their native terrain.

I stuck my sampling trowel into the former gardens of the Emerald mission -
now a patch of rejuvinated forest. I was relieved  that this ground was not
such tough ground as that which I had sampled  back at the Angurugu Mission
gardens -  where I had experienced great difficulty getting the trowel to
penetrate the sharp topsoil that was intensively concentrated in manganese
pesolites ( pebbles ). I also noticed that these samples were much lighter
than the soil which I had drawn at Angurugu, again indicating the lower
concentration of manganese metal in the soil. The analyses of these samples
would no doubt confirm my suspicion that the neurological problems first
began once these Aboriginal clans had  moved  from the Emerald River Mission
into permanent residence at the most intensive manganese hotspot region of
Groote - Angurugu.



As we drove on to get to Mud Cod Bay - an area of seacoast that lay on the
manganese bedrock platform - Dennis really started opening up about his
interests in my whole investigation. He started talking about the strange
psychiatric and neurological demise of some of his co workers in the mine. A
guy called "Monkey"  had started to experience completely unprovoked rage and
aggression , as well as insomnia, tremors, depression, fatigue, cramps and
unmotivated crying fits - the text book symptoms of mangnaese intoxication.
Monkey had been invited to meet me at a party in the mining town of Alyangula
that night. He had some interesting analytical data collected from some
sampling of his blood, where man

Fwd: FW: Organic gardener position

[bdnow]

>Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 13:20:33 -0400
>Subject: FW: Organic gardener position
>From: David Lillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>AB,
>Please forward as appropriate.
>DL
>
>
>--
>From: Betsy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Betsy Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 11:20:32 -0400
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Fw: Organic gardener position
>
>
>
>- Original Message -
>From: Rose Cummins   
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 10:29 AM
>Subject: Organic gardener position
>
>Dear Ms. Taylor, If you know of anyone who might be interested in 
>this position, would you please have him/her get in touch with me? 
> Thank you, Sister Rose Marie Cummins, St. Catharine, KY
>
>JOB DESCRIPTION
>
>for
>
>ORGANIC GARDENER
>
>This is a new position of the Dominican Earth Project at St. 
>Catharine, KY. The duties include:
>
>1. To help plan, sow, tend, harvest, and market crops from a new 
>organic garden (one acre).
>2. To help plan, sow, tend, harvest, and market crops from the 
>children’s garden.
>3. To develop and implement a curriculum for the children’s 
>garden project.
>4. To work alongside the gardeners who work in the Motherhouse 
>garden to learn more about the needs of the Motherhouse and the 
>gifts, challenges, and history of this place.
>5. To establish ties in the tri-county areas to involve others 
>in the garden for education, spiritual nourishment, and upkeep of 
>the garden.
>6. To be available to the staff at Sansbury for consultation on 
>environmental and horticultural-related endeavors.
>7. To keep people at the Motherhouse abreast of what is going on 
>in the garden and to learn of their hopes and dreams for the earth.
>8. To find ways to continue to build bridges with the college, 
>farm, kitchen staff, local area residents, Sansbury and the 
>Motherhouse in relation to food, agriculture, and the environment.
>
>QUALIFICATIONS:
>Formal education and three years experience in sustainable agriculture
>Ability to relate to a diverse population and to different ages
>Willingness to live and carry out the mission of the Earth Center 
>and the Dominicans of St. Catharine, Kentucky
>Passion for community-building
>Openness to life-long learning about sustainability
>HOURS: 40 hours a week/12 months a year (+ Vacation and Benefits)
>
>RATE OF PAY: Negotiable

Fwd: Fw: Ifgene conference

[bdnow]

>
>
>Genetic Engineering and the Intrinsic Value and Integrity
>of Animals and Plants
>
>Wednesday 18th to Saturday 21st September 2002
>Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, UK
>
>Speakers:
>
>*Holmes Rolston III, Environmental Ethicist, Department of Philosophy,
>Colorado State University
>*Donald Bruce, Church of Scotland Science Religion & Technology Project
>*Craig Holdrege, Contextual Biologist, The Nature Institute, New York
>*Howard Davies, Theme Leader "Genes to Products" Scottish Crop Research
>Institute, Dundee
>*Ruth Richter, Plant Morphologist, Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion,
>Goetheanum, Switzerland
>*Henk Verhoog, Bioethicist, Louis Bolk Instituut, Netherlands
>*Harry Griffin, Assistant Director (Science), Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
>*Timothy Brink, Development Manager, Demeter Standards UK
>*Mike Radford, Animal Welfare Lawyer, Department of Law, Aberdeen
>University
>*Christina Henatsch, Biodynamic Plant Breeder, Kultursaat, Germany
>*Ton Baars, Senior Scientist, Animal Husbandry, Louis Bolk Institute,
>Netherlands
>*Clive Spash, Socio-economist, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen  
>*Bruce Whitelaw, Molecular Geneticist, Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
>*Johannes Wirz, Contextual Biologist, Naturwissenschaftliche Sektion,
>Goetheanum, Switzerland
>
>Workshop concept and aims
>
>For more than two decades public discussion of genetic engineering has
>been
>dominated by risk-benefit considerations. Arguments about its usefulness
>or
>its dangers for humans are traded even when the dialogue partners are
>starting from a stance which is already in principle for or against
>genetic
>engineering. Where do the living beings which are the focus of this
>technology stand in all this? To help us answer this question we shall
>place them at the centre of our workshop.
>
>Intrinsic value, the good of its own, of a creature is gaining
>recognition
>in law. Indeed the concept of the dignity of creation is incorporated in
>the Swiss constitution. In this conference we shall consider both plants
>and animals. Whilst giving moral consideration to plants seems
>controversial, the apparent closeness to humans of animals through their
>sentience and consciousness may make it easier for us to intuit their
>intrinsic value and to recognise their creature interests. Yet we exploit
>them just the same. Indeed, we are dependent on them for their products
>and
>the range of that dependence could be greatly extended by what genetic
>engineering already has to offer. How can we sharpen our awareness for
>their essential nature so that in evaluating the technology we guard
>against violations of their integrity? We will address this question
>helped
>by practical observation of plant and animal phenomena guided by
>scientists
>from several countries.
>
>We will approach the subject from the most varied angles by hearing
>presentations from ethicists, people engaged in plant and animal breeding
>and husbandry, molecular geneticists, an animal welfare lawyer, a
>socio-economist and biologists specialising in the context of life. In
>panel, plenum and breakout discussions we will deepen and challenge this
>wealth of experience and by drawing on the insights we come to during the
>workshop we will try to visualise perspectives and limitations of shaping
>the heritable constitution of animals and plants.
>
>It can be argued that overlooking aspects intrinsic to farm animals has
>led
>to the series of crises in UK agriculture over the past decade. This may
>be
>more than a hint to us that conceptually reducing animals to
>bioproduction
>mechanisms which can be optimised at the molecular level needs replacing
>by
>a science capable of understanding not only molecular and cellular form
>and
>function but also organismic and aesthetic qualities. This issue, one not
>just of epistemology but of actual laboratory experience, will be central
>to our discussions.
>
>Plant and Animal: Guided Observation Sessions
>
>Recognising the intrinsic value and integrity of living beings is greatly
>helped by direct observation. And observation skills can be schooled so
>to
>as to make this faculty of recognition all the more acute. The 2-hour
>sessions in the afternoons of 19th and 20th September will be led by
>scientists from UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and USA.
>
>Breakout Workshops 19th & 20th September, 4.30-6.00 p.m.
>
>Discussion in much smaller groups to deepen some of the plenum themes and
>add others which are relevant. Led by speakers and other contributors
>attending the event.
>
>Panel Discussion, Friday 20th September, 7.30 p.m.
>
>Open to visitors attending for the evening. Led by panelists chosen from
>the plenum speakers. Contributions from the floor.
>
>Plenum Discussions
>
>Ifgene aims to provide an opportunity for developing viewpoints through
>dialogue. We have therefore scheduled a relatively large amount of time
>for
>this, including an hour of discussion on the closing day. The recent
>emergence of controversy about biotechno

Fwd: re:Fw: [globalnews] Poll: Americans Support Cutting Aid toIsrael, No Longer Consider Terrorism #1 Issue

[bdnow]

>Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:44:52 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:Fw: [globalnews] Poll: Americans Support Cutting Aid to 
>Israel, No Longer Consider Terrorism #1 Issue
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Stephen,
>
>You are correct in establishing the framework of
>shotty statistics.  In 1979 only 2 organizations in
>the U.S. were reputable statisticians.  Gallup was
>one.
>It has to do with the way data is handled in order to
>prevent bias.  It is done through a refining method to
>obtain a valid cross section of the public. The work
>is difficult and adurous.
>
>  
>
>However what we see here is bias in the names.  First,
>these organizations are news organizations,  expert in
>manipulation of public opinion.
>
>About the same year, 1979,  in the Raleigh Research
>Triangle area,  a Japanese firm,  Mitsibishi I think,
>was in search for someone to do the equivilent of
>junior college statistics.  Now remember that, 3 of
>the top ten universities in the U.S. are in the same
>area; NC State, Duke, and Chapel Hill.  So, who got
>hired?  Someone with a Masters Degree to perform
>Junior college statistics.
>
>Michael.
>
>
>
>
>__
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
>http://taxes.yahoo.com/

Flow Forms and Compost Tea (from SFW)

[bdnow]

(From Elaine Ingham's monthly newsletter.  You can get the current 
edition or subscribe at http://www.soilfoodweb.com  Frankly, I find 
this report confusing, but the first sentence is pretty encouraging! 
-Allan)

1. BIODYNAMICS Flow-Forms - do they make good tea?

They sure do!  No surprise to BD Folks, but now you know why BD Flow 
Form tea can be good!  But as with all compost tea machines, you need 
to make sure the tea being produced is fully aerobic through the 
entire brewing process.

Below are data from a three Flow Form tea.  The pool of water at the 
bottom of the flow forms is shown to need additional aeration.  (See 
original newsletter at address above.)

Some compost tea making machines have been shown to not maintain 
adequate aeration when standard compost tea recipes have been used. 
The amount of microbial food put into these machines must be reduced 
from what is recommended in the Compost Tea Brewing Manual, or the 
tea will be anaerobic during the brewing cycle.  With fewer food 
resources, lower numbers of organisms will be grown and 50 to 100 
gallons of tea would have to be applied using these teas.  If normal 
food levels are used, the tea may go anaerobic, and you have to apply 
50 to 100 gal of tea to get adequate organism numbers, BUT there may 
be anaerobic metabolites that can harm plants, and human pathogens 
might be growing in the tea. 

The EarthWorks, EPM, Microb-Brewer and Compara machines typically 
maintain adequate aeration through the whole brewing cycle.  The 
recipes in the Compost Tea Brewing Manual can be used (based on 50 
gal original Microb-Brewer machines) for 5 gal/ac typical application 
rate. 

Flow Form data

The Flow Form set-up used was a three-step unit, a compost basket 
under the last step, and an un-aerated pool of water.  The organisms 
didn't start growing immediately, but within a few hours, the tea in 
the pool started losing oxygen. 

When the compost basket was removed at 12 hours, 6 ppm oxygen levels 
were then maintained, but much of the damage had been done.  The 
fungi extracted early on were lost, and the anaerobic conditions on 
the bottom of the pool were not brought back to aerated conditions. 
This shows how important mixing and good aeration throughout the 
machine are.  A ring of tubing with little air holes around the 
bottom of the pool would allow the pool to stay aerated.  Great tea 
could probably be ready in 16 hours using BD Flow Forms.



Activity measurements (a sum of bacteria and fungi together) in the 
top flow form and in the pool are shown below.  Activity improved 
greatly when the organisms growing in the compost were removed at 12 
hours.  But aeration could not keep up in the pool, and active 
organisms were again lost in the pool.  The smell from the bottom of 
the pool was pretty bad when the brewing was stopped at 32 hours and 
the tea was emptied out of the pool.

Fwd: re:learning to dowse

[bdnow]

>Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 12:52:29 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:learning to dowse
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Dear All,
>
>There is also a wonderful e-book on the avalon site by
>Tom Graves entitled "Needles of Stone" which is
>extremely interesting.  At least from a BD point of
>view in understanding the ethers.
>
>Michael.
>
>
>Sharon also. I enjoy and learn from your site.
>
>Also see Sid Logren's book at
>http://www.isleofavalon.co.uk/spiritualdowsing.html
>
>namaste,
>
>Sarah
>
>   jsherry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Joey Korn, a lovely guy and member of the Dowsers
>Society, is available to
>do one on one instruction as well as offering classes
>in different locations
>in the states. He did a presentation at one of Allan's
>Bd conferences, I
>believe two years ago or so. Missed him there, but I
>checked out his site,
>sent an email and arranged for a home visit when he
>was staying in Brooklyn
>a while back. He's a wonderful spirit, also got me
>Walt's book. His website
>is:
>
>http://www.dowsers.com/
>
>Best,
>Jane
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Wayne and Sharon McEachern"
>To:
>Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 7:35 AM
>Subject: Re: Learning to dowse
>
>
>
>
>Gil Robertson wrote:
>
>>  Hi! Lloyd,
>>  Thanks for posting that. It is probably the most
>used of that sort of
>>  thing. I think ! it could do with editing to a
>briefer item, but apart
>>  from that, it is fine.
>>
>>  Gil
>
>Anyone wishing a bit of a shorter "how-to" on dowsing
>can also visit the
>Light Expression website at
>http://lightexpression.com/index2.htm and
>read instruction which was offered by a friend of ours
>-- then tuned to
>its finished state by Sharon and I. Wishing everyone
>well in their
>adventures
>
>Wayne
>*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
>
>Sharon and Wayne McEachern
>
>"Expressing the Light"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>__
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax
>http://taxes.yahoo.com/

Fwd: BD Biz

[bdnow]

>Status:  U
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 09:47:47 +0100 (BST)
>From: Srinivas Kalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: BD Biz
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Hello dear Biodynamic friend,
>
>I am Sreenivasulu Kalle, from India.
>Since 1997, I am practicing Biodynamics. And I am
>giving BD advisory services in India.
>Peter proctor is my BD teacher. I feel that
>Biodynamics is the answer for sustainable Agriculture.
>
>
>Here I am going to start very good venture in BD Agri-
>Business. So I needed some partners who can invest in
>India and also can able to work along with me. This is
>a global business venture. Involving of all kinds of
>Agi commodities, Fruits, Vegetables Cultivation and
>exports the yields to Gulf countries and also to,
>needed countries. Already I have so many orders from
>some Gulf countries.
>
>Why to do in India only?
>
>- India has all kinds of climatic conditions. We can
>see 5 to 48 degrees temperature. So all types of crops
>can grow.
>- Mainly cost of cultivation is very less. Because
>labor cost is very cheep comparatively any other
>country. Population is very high.
>- BD origin i.e. basics which Stainer and ancestors
>found from Hinduism and Buddhism, from India.  All
>these concepts are in “Varaha Meera” Agriculture
>systems. He has written all these concepts in BC 300
>year.
>- India is having very good resources for productive
>Agri Business.
>- Indian currency is 48/50Rupees = $1 US.
>
>
>Like that so many reasons.  And also I have very good
>plans about these. India is very good place to
>organize/ conduct the training programs for BD.
>Already Peter Proctor is conducting 1 month training
>program in India twice in a year. Participants are
>from all countries. So India is good place to do Agri
>biz.
>
>If you are interested to merge with us let me know as
>soon as possible. So that, we can have more
>discussions. Please feel free and ask me
>Thanks.
>Sreenivasulu Kalle.
>
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Fwd: Recessive Spiral Pump

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>Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 18:58:35 -0400
>From: Francesca Bertone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Recessive Spiral Pump
>Sender: Francesca Bertone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Mr. Balliett,
>Thank you for your message.
>We are conducting prototype development on our pumps right now.   Our
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>We will license manufacturers to build and market our products, and may be
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>You can learn more about our products on our website, which will be up and
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Fwd: Re: Prep Questions!

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>Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:02:24 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Prep Questions!
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Dear Hugh,
>
>It sounds here as if the 508 is acting as a catalyst
>on the clay, pulling the alumina/silica into a
>cohesive whole onto the skin of the plant.  Is this
>correct?
>
>Michael.
>
>
>508 is a morning spray that tightens up the plant, and
>can be sprayed the morning after horn clay. It can
>stand to be balanced by 505 if you want the soil
>tightened up as well.
>
>Hugh>
>
>
>>HUgh -- what about 508 in the below sequence?? If it
>were added, where
>>would it
>>fit in?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Wayne
>>
>
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Fwd: Fw: Optimum Tea

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>
>
>To:  All concerned
>From:  Jerry Brunetti
>
>I read your e-mail of 3/7/02 re: equisetum to create an optimum tea. 
>How much dried horsetail per gallon of tea are you using?  We have a 
>35 gallon tank and are including cereal straws and oak bark, as well 
>as misc. sugars, starches, kelp, etc to also grow the bacteria.  We 
>are getting very good fungal counts, but Think much of that is from 
>the fact that 1/3 of our compost is derived from composted deciduous 
>leaves, bark and twigs.  Where are you having your analysis done- at 
>SFI?  It's clear that straw, bark, and horsetail all have high 
>levels of silica witch apparently suppresses/deters disease fungus, 
>while simultaneously encouraging healthy fungus.  Another example of 
>Amphoteris forces at work.

Received 3/31/2002 Biodynamics #240

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Biodynamics Journal March/April 2002 Number 240

Contents:

The Future of Preparation Making in North America
Charles Burkam
The Widening of Man's Perception - A Lecture Given At Dornach, January 7,1923
Rudolf Steiner
Challenged by the Future: Beyond Sustainability
Gunther Hauk
Understanding the Cow: Aspects Relating to the Nature of the Bovine Animal
Hans Josef Cremer
Bessie's Teachings at Aurora Farm
Barbara M. V. Scott, MSc
Coughing Calves
Hubert Karrernan, VIVID
Rhythm Replaces Power: Elemental Rain Dialogues, Part 2
Dennis Klocek
Recommendations for Working with Crops
Hugh Courtney
Calendar of Events, Internships/Employment, and Opportunities Available

Cover Photo: "Rosebud" by Woody Woodraska

Biodynamic Journal is a bi-monthly publication for members of the 
U.S. Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Assoc. Inc.,  Building 10002B, 
Thoreau Center, The Presidio, POB 29135,  San Francisco, CA 94129. A 
one year membership costs $45.

Unanticipated Blessing: The One-Straw Revolution On-line

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>
>
>Hello everyone,
>   I have just uploaded to the files section of the 
>group two electronic
>copies of Fukuoka's The One-Straw Revolution.
>
>One is a simple text file (232KB) that I believe all pcs and macs can handle
>(using notepad in windows), the other is in the pdf format (297KB) that
>helps retain layout features across platforms and is especially useful for
>printing (if you do not have a copy of the free pdf reader, then it can be
>downloaded from the makers, Adobe, at
>http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.)
>
>
>In working on this edition I have been aware throughout of Fukuoka's wish
>that only his latest work be published. However, despite inquiries in Japan
>about an English version of this last work (see previous emails forwarded by
>me to this list) and Robert's kind offer to have his Japanese copy published
>electronically, this work is, in reality, unavailable to us.
>
>The current copyright status of the Indian Editions of The One-Straw
>Revolution, The Natural Way of Farming and The Road Back to Nature is as
>influenced by the above wishes of Fukuoka's as is my electronic copy.
>However, I do not wish to compare editions, the Indian editions are by far
>the better form in which to have the work, especially as they have (if the
>introduction by Partap Aggarwal is accepted) the tacit approval of The
>Rodale Press. I recommend to everyone to buy Fukuoka's books (see previous
>email for detailed order instructions)
>
>I have pared the book to the words of Fukuoka alone; there is no Preface,
>Introduction or Translators Note: you will find no photos either (accepting
>the pdf version where I have retained the two Food Mandalas as they were
>pertinent to the text). This edition is not a rival to the book.
>
>It is intended to fill the interval between the intriguing references to
>Fukuoka (in Permaculture, organic farming, sustainable technologies etc) and
>the often lengthy (and outside this group little known) route necessary to
>purchase one of his books inspired by these references. It is intended to
>make Fukuoka present to the agricultural world in a way he has never been
>before.
>
>Finally, and legalistically, this is, nominally, a copyrighted text. Whilst
>I would ask everyone to distribute this work as widely as possible, to send
>it to friends, to put it up on their websites etc, it is necessary to be
>aware of this fact. For the reasons outlined above, I believe in
>disseminating Fukuoka's work we are achieving more than is presently being
>achieved with the status quo.
>
>
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FWD Re[2]: Testing preps?

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Author:  Tobias Koenig at Yanco
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  For my part I would like to see 500 and BC tested
  Tobias


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On Tuesday, March 19, 2002, at 01:53 PM, Merla wrote:

>  Bonnie, did you see Allan's email.  He wants to test Pfeiffer Field
>  Spray as #2, rather than BD 500. We need to agree.

That's fine. I sent mine before his got to me.

I have no knowledge of Pfeiffer sprays and such. That's why I asked for
other input on this. I'm just doing what ya'll want me to. Not making
the decisions and we're not sending it out today anyway.

The final analysis will be made on what we all agree on.

Bonnie

NZ dissimination research report oganic soil management

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>
>
>
>   Dear Organic Friends,
>
>   The Research and Development Group of the Bio Dynamic
>   Farming and Gardening Assn. has just finished a research
>   report. The report reviews the research and research
>   methodologies on organic soil management, particularly
>   relating to pasture management and orcharding. Further more
>   it provides references and contact addresses for persons
>   interested in organic research and development. Attached is
>   the summary of the report. The report can be obtained as a
>   hard copy( contact) or you can visit the Biodynamic Farming
>   and Gardening website at www.biodynamic.org.nz.
>
>   We would like to present and discuss the report with all
>   interested groups. For this matter we are organising various
>   meetings throughout the country through our local branches.
>   Since we are aware of other potentially interested groups we
>   would like to find out if you and your members are
>   interested in organising an event around the report. The
>   Research and Development Group is more then willing to
>   discuss the findings with all interested stakeholders. So
>   please do not hesitate to contact us.
>
>   With kind regards,
>
>   Frank van Steensel (M.Ag.Sc., B.Ag/Hort)
>   Research Manager of the Research and Development Group of
>   the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening ass.
>
>   Name: Research Report Summary (1).doc
>Part 1.2   Type: application/msword
>   Encoding: base64

Fwd: Re:How to Grow Corn as a Soil Improvement Crop--

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>Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 08:31:29 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re:How to Grow Corn as a Soil Improvement Crop--
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please fwd;
>
>Dear Hugh,
>
>First of all, nice web site guy. 
>
>I have a question.  I'll try to phrase it correctly.
>
>Have you noticed any relationship between the
>actinomycetes and the corn plant?  If so, which part
>of the plant and/or seed development do they play a
>role in?  ... and which prep may be intrumental in the
>actinomycete encouragement?
>
>Thanks,
>Michael.
>
>
>Corn makes a lot of organic matter. It sucks in a lot
>of carbon dioxide and turns it into sugars, starches,
>cellulose, etc.
>
>Ideally corn feeds the soil microbes profusely from
>the breakdown of its cotyledon even before its leaf
>sworl breaks the surface. It seems to do this better
>when the soil is dryer at planting than if it is wet.
>Ideally one should plant several days after a rain
>rather than before a rain.
>
>Ever see where three, four or more corn seeds sprout
>close together? Usually the middle one or ones will be
>the most robust, even though it might seem they ought
>to be competing for nutrients and the middle one(s)
>should be short changed. But check it out. This is not
>the case because the soil food web is what really
>feeds the corn best and it will be cooking best in the
>middle of the cluster where the concentration of root
>exudates is highest. Which suggests it is a good idea
>to plant corn at a density of three to four seeds per
>foot rather than further apart if you want the corn
>to really get off to a killer start.
>
>Corn is set for how much it will make by about the
>time the sixth leaf node develops. That's still pretty
>small, probably under a foot high for almost all
>corns. So corn really has to get off to a good start
>if it is to make well. For sure it doesn't need any
>weed competition when it is just emerging, so again it
>does better in dryer plantings than where the
>moisture gets the weeds really going.
>
>But what can happen, and has happened frequently (not
>always) for me is the corn starts feeding the
>azotobacters (Pfeiffer isolated 54 strains in a
>sample he studied of horn manure) before it ever
>breaks the surface.
>
>The key is all those root exudates. If you sprout corn
>you have to rinse it about 5 times a day to keep it
>from souring. But in good soil the root exudates feed
>the soil food web, and right away nitrogen gets fixed
>and feeds amino acids to all the other microorganisms
>in the soil. This actually works best when soluble
>nitrogen levels are low in the soil, so if you expect
>this to work you sure don't want raw manure or tankage
>and you don't even want much if any compost.
>
>Azotobacters depend on adequate calcium levels, to say
>nothing of molybdenum and some of the other trace
>metals. And the soil should have good structure so it
>gets air but also has enough cation exchange capacity
>(mainly provided by clay and humus) to supply the
>necessary minerals for nitrogen fixation to occur
>robustly. If your soil isn't there yet you may
>have to grow a legume like soybeans first. In fact, I
>normally plant soybeans in the offsets between corn
>rows as insurance for poorer areas.
>
>As long as the corn plant keeps making sugars and
>translocating them to the soil (the role of boron and
>aluminum in clay) and shedding these carbonaceous root
>exudates into the soil food web feasting at its roots
>it will get a large proportion of its nitrogen
>requirement as amino acids excreted by the protozoans
>feasting on the nitrogen fixers and their kin.
>Because these excreta are right there along the roots
>and easily absorbed the plant has a strong tendency to
>take them up before they can oxidize to nitrates. Then
>the corn's protoplasm is rich and turgid instead of
>salty and watery, and the corn plant grows more
>robustly than it would be able to if was fed nitrogen
>fertilizers. And the corn quality is superb. The corn
>plant assembles this rich diet of amino acids directly
>into protein in its growing parts and builds its
>peptides, duplicates its DNA, grows like
>gangbusters and makes the soil rich without the
>application of fertilizers.
>I've estimated a robust, high population, open-
>pollenated corn/soybean planting of 12 feet height can
>add as much as half a percent organic matter to the
>soil in a single season.
>
>Of course, you want to have rich organizational
>patterns of energy in both the soil and atmosphere if
>you want this to work like gangbusters. (See my
>website, www.unionag.org for pictures.) In particular
>using the horn clay patterns in my broadcasters seems
>to have been the missing ingredient for this situation
>to occur. Since I started using horn clay the soil
>patterns of horn manure and the atmosphere patterns of
>horn silica have joined together to really turn corn
>into a high octane grower like a dragster running on
>aviation fuel. Great stuff.

Re: Slash and Burn (from Chris Shade)

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Hey Allan,

No, I have been pretty busy and only loosely following
things.  I only opened your e-mail because of the
subject line (I didn't realize it was to me and not
the list).

Yes, there is something to ashes.  In a rodale study
(that was never published and I found buried in some
archives), they made a buch of compost piles with
different amendments, including rock phosphates,
Pfeiffer starter, wood ash and a few other things.
They noted that no pile finished any earlier than the
others, but didn't make much mention of the final NPK
analyses, which were rather remarkable.  Most of the
piles hovered around 1-1-1 to 2-2-2, BUT the Pfeiffer
pile was like 1-2-10 (nothing strange about 10, eh?)
and the wood ash pile was like 1-6-2.  So lets back up
here...the piles with added Rock phosphate were barely
up from the rest while the pile with the added K (wood
ash) had soaring P and the pile with added critters
and preps (you might think N) had a soaring K [note: A
Biodynamic Book of Moons - my favorite for the
alchemic notation - places K as the Sal or BD500
nutrient element (makes roots and heavy stalks and
such)and P as the sulph or fire element].

So it seems that the ash somehow stimulates the fire
element.  This is also seen if you put some freshly
burned wood ash on hot peppers or tomatoes - the ripen
quickly and thoroughly and the peppers are searing
like coals.

On a more mundane level, all of those nutrients,
mostly mineral elements, are rapidly realeased to the
soils as soluble salts rather than their slow
mineralization through biotic/humic channels.


Cheers,
Chris

Chris goes on:

I imagine that the issue is like any other -
unshakeable doctrine is foolish and there may be
reasons to do things like slash and burn sometimes.  A
fire brings new life to a forest at the same time that
is destroys old life.
The issue of whether burned things (ash) are good for
the soil is pretty straight forward - yes, generally,
unless you have a salinity or alkalinity problem).
Whether or not to slash and burn versus just applying
wood ash is another.  My immediate intuition is that
it is probably a good thing once in awhile, if not
more often.  Of course you would want to do something
to perk the microbes back up after the cooking, but it
shouldn't be hard.

As far as the Rodale study, they seemed to do
everything pretty much by the book - the main
ingredients were all from the same big piles, the only
difference being the extra amendments added.  They
seemed to be pretty sciency folks from the way it
read.  I sure wish I could find the thing, but I have
looked and do not have it.

Chris Shade

re:Pfeiffer Field Sprays

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(from Michael Smith)

Dear Allan,

I have the impression the the Pfeiffer field spray may
be a combination of 500/BC in some form since it is
denoted for its' digestive ability.  As a spring
plowdown spray, it may be a little out of season and
release CO2 back to atmosphere when we should be
concerned with the soil air(CO2) conservation for the
growing season.  In order to keep the biological
activity in the soil, I would think about following
this up with a clay spray, since it has been noticed
that microbial activity seems to gather around the
clay molecule by Coleman and others.

Michael.




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James DeMeo on "Croft type devices"

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Allan,

A friend in Namibia informed me that Croft was there in January, and gave a
lecture, after which he set up six of his devices, which were then put into
use on a non-stop basis.  They did not have any rain afterward for two
months, until several persons I know who asked me about it, then took my
advise and informed that group.  All but two of them took down their
devices, and rains resumed.  One woman informed me the rains returned later
on the very day she took it down.  The same thing is slowly occurring here
on the West Coast, where I've had maybe 10 inquiries by persons connected
with the Croft group.  Based upon my recommendation, they stopped using
them, or restricted use to only short applications, and have started to
read Reich's materials for information on atmospheric energy.  Whether
these things will have a permanent or short-term effect, I cannot say.
Another lesser-known principle in orgone biophysics is that the energetic
excitation tends to reduce over time, so that if a person is chronically
over-exciting the atmosphere, the atmosphere becomes less and less
responsive.  Which is why iron pilings and other pipes stuck into the
ground for building constructions, piers, and so forth, will only have a
temporary effect at best.  Nobody who knows about Reich's cloudbusting
method uses them for more than a few hours or days at best (and then, only
in hard desert regions).  Sometimes, a few minutes of work will created the
desired changes.

I think, to inform people that prolonged use of any clb-type device can
push the atmosphere towards a drying-drought tendency, even as a
"chembuster", is a good start.  No farmer who puts one of these things up
will leave it up if he perceives the rains are diminishing -- and so all
you have to do is point that out to them, to watch for that effect.
Secondly, I encourage people to have a more critical view of the claims of
the "chembuster" conspiracy enthusiasts. We hear a lot about "questioning
authority", which is healthy, but the same thing applies to all the
conspiracy stuff.  Keeping an open mind, but retaining some honest
skepticism for unproven things is a helpful tool, and should not be
confused with irrational or destructive "skepticism" as with CSICOP.

The photos I've seen published in the chemtrail books and websites look
like ordinary jet contrails to me, something I've seen since the 1970s in
fact, which is around the time when I started looking at the sky in a
systematic and serious manner. There are meteorologists who were studying
this phenomenon, and the tendency of jet contrails to spread widely under
some circumstances, as a possible factor in climate change (it would reduce
sunlight, for example).  So it is not as if this issue has gone unstudied
from the classical perspective.  Again, Reich argued the presence of firm
jet contrails was an indication that the atmospheric energy had the
capacity to "hold together" clouds, and so he considered it a good sign for
rains.  This is obvious, as a completely cloud-free sky won't provide any
rain.Some of the chem-trial photos show thin clouds spread more diffuse
and widespread across the atmosphere, and these could be the consequence of
typical desert-haze dor, as described by Reich, but they originate from
nearby desert regions.  Sometimes, over cities, they are injected with all
kinds of urban pollutants, but their basic nature is desert-derived.

One of the findings I've made, and documented over the last 15 years, is
the movement of dor-haze from the deserts of Asia into the USA.  The
classical meteorologists speak about these trans-oceanic air mass movements
as the effects of "desert dust", and there is considerable dust particles
in them -- but also dorish qualities to the life energy.  There was a big
"dust storm" to hit the west coast in April of last year, and it came from
Asia.  I've seen the satellite images, and there is no question about its
source region, in the Gobi region of China.  It crossed the Pacific, and
then dumped on California.  We also got some of it here as well.  The sky
turned a milky-white at low altitudes, with a thin haze layer at high
altitudes, and it persisted for weeks.  If they would blame that kind of
phenomenon on the UN and New World Order, the US military and so forth,
then it would only be a proof of paranoid thinking.   Yes, it would be the
product of desertification in China, but not because of evil people in
Washington DC, or the Pentagon.

Since the clay particles from desert dusts is high in both iron and
aluminum content, this might also explain some of the metal chemistry
attributed to "chemtrails" -- though some stuff coming down from the sky
may well be part of cloudseeding experiments.  I won't discount all of the
chemtrail theory, but simply note that what I have seen suggests much of
it, perhaps most of it, is people getting very alarmed over things that are
more simply explained, and blaming their health problems in direction away
fr

Jean Pain + Lemieux: bacterial vs fungal composting

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Steve, thank you, excellent sources as always.

In a discussion of the Fukuoka Farming list at Yahoo Groups the connection
was also made between Jean Pain and the intriguing work of Lemieux at Laval.
The essential difference between them being the actual breakdown of the
woody matter:  Jean Pain used the traditional thermophyllic breakdown of any
compost pile (bacterial) while Lemieux suggests that the breakdown of his
ramial wood chips should be by basidiomycetes - white rot (fungal).
Why the difference?  Lemieux makes the claim that fungal breakdown of wood
produces upto 50% more humus (humic acid) than does bacteriological
breakdown, due to chemical nature of the breakdown of the lignin, unassisted
by heat.

For anyone who has not yet seen Lemieux's work, I recommend it highly,
http://www.sbf.ulaval.ca/brf there is much in English amongst the French.
The underlying premise of Lemieux's work is that all fertile soil comes
originally from climax hardwood forests and that without renewal of climax
hardwood breakdown products this soil will eventually become exhausted.  A
salutary reminder that although humic acid is an extremely persistent
molecule, it does eventually degrade to leave the soil practically worthless
for crops (before nature returns with its plant successions, until, hundreds
or thousands of years later, the soil has again been recovered by hardwood
forests).

Jean Pain and Gilles Lemieux both have important things to say, not the
least of which is to concentrate our minds on building soil and not
producing crops (the latter being simply the product of the former and never
the reverse).

In reference to Jean Pain's biogas work, contact me off list if you would
like more information [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if anybody has any sources
of further information on the Templar origins of Jean Pain's work I would be
grateful.



Souscayrous


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Subject: [permaculture] Jean Pain + Brushwood + Biogas + Compost

The Jean Pain method came up; i.e., using chopped brushwood to generate
biogas and/or to wrap water pipes around a very *large* brushwood
pile for the purpose of  capturing heat from thermophyllic composting
(for example, to distribute hot water through hydronic tubing in
greenhouse production beds in association with rootzone heating).

An interesting parallel to the Jean Pain method is the Ramial wood chip
mulching work at Laval University in Quebec.  Several years ago a
farmer here in the Ozarks imported a special brushwood chipper to
generate mulch for their organic orchard / farm.  I talked to them last
year and they said they love the benefits of the brushwood mulch,
but it is a lot of labor to cut enough brushwood and chip the material
to generate the bulk quantities of mulch needed each spring, coming
also at a time when the farm is really busy.

Here are some web notes I collected May 2001 on the Jean Pain method.

Jean Pain resources, 5-11-01
http://ncatark.uark.edu/~steved/archives/humus/jean-pain-notes.txt

There's some interesting material on Jean Pain + brushwood + humus in
these notes.  A tale unfolds where Jean Pain got his idea on brushwood
mulch from medieval templar monks, who understood humus at a deep
level centuries before the Industrial Revolution racheted things out
of whack 

The Le Jardinage Naturel material looked pretty good, and worth
re-exploring, but that link now appears to be gone like an Internet
memory; though Google has a cache page which you can access
for a glimpse.

Steve Diver




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Re: BDNOW digest 1064

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OH MY GOSH! Did Cheryl tell you she operates this list! tch! tch!

I'll take care of this, as usual -Allan

re: 9/11: That Makes at Least Two of Us...

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Hello Allan,

Please Fwd:

I hope this offends no one, but I went looking for
America long ago.  Where did it go? Who took it? I am
deeply saddened.



This has to do with a group of individuals who want
nothing to do with the milk of human justice.

Michael.

Fwd: Re: Electronics and cancer

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>Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 06:28:30 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Electronics and cancer
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Allan,
>
>Please Fwd:
>
>Tom,
>
>This is one thing that I have absolutely no
>comprehension on.
>
>I understand that HAARP has been related to a form of
>Tesla Technology.  However, Tesla fought Hertz tooth
>and nail over the wave theory.  Tesla believed that
>the wave idea was totally a product of university
>system thinking and had nothing to do with the nature
>of the physics.(Remember it was with the insistance of
>that same system that Professors declared that
>Alternating Current was an impossibility!)  Only when
>Tesla presented an item hard for students to
>understand would he bring an analogy relative to water
>to mind.  But this was only for the purposes of
>presenting the concept.
>
>Now what do we do when the analogy becomes the reason
>and the idea?
>
>Yeech!  Tesla also stressed that the actual working of
>the nature of these devices he built was not so much
>based upon the the nature of the materials themselves,
>but that the flow was based totally upon the
>proportion and arrangement of their spacial natures.
>
>What happens when the analogy becomes the concrete
>idea that a technology is built on rather that the
>understanding that it is an allusion designed to teach
>novices the behaviour of things that can't be seen
>with the naked eye?  Then as well as not having full
>comprehension of the immaterial, we become exposed to
>the reflux of the very things we cannot see and are
>experimenting around in the dark.  In other words we
>then have no measuring tool and cannot  measure these
>other reactions.
>
>My argument is not necessarily with what you say here
>Tom, but with a decending left hand vortex of people
>who are experimenting with things they have no
>knowledge of but go ahead because the get what they
>want.
>
>Tesla spent a large degree of his energy attempting to
>clearly demonstrate both physically and mathmatically
>the actual phenomena behind the reactions -  to clear
>up the mathmatical hack jobs that the modern
>university created while sitting in their ivory towers
>of babel based totally on mathmatical mechanics.
>
>By having some of Tesla's ideas while dis-requarding
>the warnings of the person who showed that these
>phenomena were possible is an act of suicide.  It
>would have clearly been better if he would have told
>them nothing and created his own following leaving the
>authorities in the dark.  However, now they have half
>and choose not to employ the disipline that went with
>it.
>
>Michael.
>
>T. Bearden claims the KGB has been using scalar beams
>to mess with the weather since the 1950s. They were
>way ahead of us in HAARP type technology using Long
>Waves, and according to Bearden they have created some
>destructive weather phenomena in the west as part of
>their testing programs.
>
>I'd like to know a bit about W. Reich's experiments
>from some of the experts out there. Are waves involved
>in Reich's weather work with orgone or is this
>something altogether different? If there are waves
>involved what frequencies are we talking about? Are
>etheric forces waveless and without particles since
>they are really not material forces? I need a little
>basic education here.
>- Thanks, Tom>
>
>
>
>__
>Do You Yahoo!?
>Yahoo! Sports - sign up for Fantasy Baseball
>http://sports.yahoo.com

MARK PURDEY: Unresolved Questions and Agent Provocatuers

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>Hi Geoff,
>
>Thanks for your respect.
>
>Weirdly, the popular media seemed much more interested in my work before I
>had amassed hard scientific evidence and trekked off on my exciting global
>eco-detective escapades. I find this strange because global treks and
>successful experiments are far more appealing from a journalistic perspective
>than a mere farmer's theory - as it was in the early days !!
>
>Well, from having very good press in the early days, I then started to get
>some slightly negative publicity once the labour government got into power in
>the UK ( strange  !! ), so I have virtually concentrated on making good
>progress in my field and lab research projects since then and forgotten about
>popular media, concentrating on getting published in science journals, etc. 
>
>However, there has been some very, very misrepresentative stuff going out in
>the UK media about my work so I am looking for someone to run a good solid
>update piece which opens up the dialogue again.
>  The current UK public misconception being that my theory is no longer being
>discussed because it is flawed - because some medical spin docter hack from
>the Times or Telegraph has mislead the nation by publishing some unilateral
>ministerial diktat on my work without ever consulting my side of the story.
>But the irony is that the reality surrounding the current credibility status
>of my work is that it is now supported by much positive experimental data
>from around the world - but nobody knows this - I am just crucified in the
>nationals as the crank with the theory that was disproven (but the
>journalists have to change my theory in order to achieve that position . Or
>perhaps more accurately, the hard pressed conveyor belt journalists are fed
>the government press releases or contrived "leaks" which they don't want to
>question or counter / rock the boat because they do not want to upset the
>people on whom they depend the flow of daily stories for them  !! ).
>
>Basically, I am trying to get publishers interested in a book that I will
>write which builds up this scientific discovery ( I do not want to sound vain
>here !! ) through a colourful and creative format of my eco-detective journey
>around the world, inclusive of all the amazing "on the ground" people I have
>met on route who have helped me forge the milestones of my mission, etc. They
>will get the credit for this discovery, not the armada of bowtied golfing
>professors who cruise around from conference to conference on multinational
>money , donkeybacking their students' s every creative leap,etc.
>
>I also think there is room for another good film , or good impartial feature
>article which charters my research tour planned for this coming year, where I
>am sampling in three TSE cluster areas and one TSE-free location ( of close
>characteristics to the TSE regions ) across the USA (from mid April ), doing
>research on Japanese BSE farms and with the Australian Aboriginees on this Mn
>contaminated island, etc
>
>
>Hope this explains my current predicament re publicity. In a nutshell, I only
>consider that respectable bursts of publicity in the media are worth while
>putting effort into, thus I no longer prostitute myself to the quick fix news
>flashes - they are just not worth the grief of the inevitable
>misrepresentation - the energy is better spent on research or better still ,
>one's family...who I try not to forget about,,, they have tolerated so
>much grief !!
>
>Best,
>
>Mark

Mark Purdey: Origins of Spongiform Disease Pt2

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Daylight on TSEs - the deadly oxidative connection unleashed.

But each time Purdey's trek took him to a newTSE hotspot, he found 
himself face to face with the same type of high altitude, snow 
covered terrain. But this common geographical association with 
TSEclusters continued to baffle him; each time recounting the memory 
of his first glimpse of chronic wasting countryside of deer and elk - 
the snow peaked Rocky Mountains sawtoothing the july skyline beyond 
the Denver Plain.
But after arriving at the Calabrian village where 20 cases of CJD 
have emerged since 1995, the relevance of this geographical 
connection to TSE finally gelled. The houses in this village were 
newly constructed out of hideous bright white concrete sections - 
unusual for this area. All were couched within a parched, glaring 
landscape of bare white sandstone, producing all the criteria 
required for a most intensive ultra violet (UV) hotspot location; 
immediately connecting Purdey to the well recognised ëhigh UVí nature 
of high altitude, snow covered terrain which he found in common in 
the Icelandic, Colorado, Slovak clusters, etc, that he had surveyed.
The UV prerequisite also explained other missing links in the science 
of traditional TSEs - such as the way in which initial pathological 
damage of TSE manifests itself within the retina or the eyelid or 
skin. Plus the fact that the normal , healthy form of copper bound 
prion protein is located in the pathways which coduct the 
electromagnetic energy of ultraviolet light around the brain - eg , 
the retina, pineal gland , visual cortex, hypothalamus, pituitary, 
brain stem, etc. Prion protein is also found in other areas of the 
body which are involved in the conduction of electromagnetic energy; 
for instance around glial cells and proliferating cells involved in 
the growth and repair of some tissues. In this respect, it could be 
said that the discovery of the prion protein may turn out to give 
scientific substance to the existance of the electromagnetic 
meridians recognised by Chinese medicine - where the healthy copper 
prion maintains the electro-homeostatis along the meridians.

The fact that copper has an industrial use for conducting electricity 
in wiring and manganese has a use for storing electricity in 
batteries / Light bulb filaments elucidates a possible explanation 
for the cause of prion diseases; whereby the healthy copper prion 
continues to conduct the vital energy of sunlight along the circadian 
pathways in the brain to propel the sleep. sex, behavioural 
cycles,etc., whilst the unhealthy manganese contaminated prion serves 
to blockade and store up that UV energy to a critical flash point 
level ; where cluster bombs of free radical neurodegerative chain 
reactions are forced to burst forth .

Could the oxidizing impact of UV at the retina convert the 
accumulated store of manganese ( both manganese and prion protein 
tend to accumulate in the retina ) from its innocuous manganese 2+ 
antioxidant form into its lethal manganese 3+ prooxidant form ? So 
any manganese that is abnormally attached to the prion protein in the 
retina finds itself switched from a safe to lethal form.
Does the oxidising effects of UV therefore serve to unleash a lethal 
ë Dr jekyll and hydeí like property of the prion protein, which, in 
turn, kicks off a whole chain reaction of free radical mediated 
assault on the central nerves ? A neurodegenerative ëmelt downí of 
neurones proliferates, and TSE ensues.

This has explained the genesis of the traditional strains of TSE, but 
what about the causes of the much more aggressive modern day strains 
of TSE ( BSE, vCJD ) surfacing in younger mammals. Perhaps these 
could result from our increased modern day exposure to the more 
potent oxidizing effects of a cocktail of man made agents  which 
penetrate the central nerves - such as the systemic organophosphates 
(head lice shampoos, warblecides, etc ), radar, ozone, increasing UV 
due to stratospheric ozone depletion, microwave mobile phones, 
Concordeís supersonic waves-,thereby serving as the lethal oxidative 
triggers which produce a more virulent, accelerated version of TSE 
with full blown symptoms erupting in much younger mammals than normal.
TSEs could therefore be viewed as diseases that result from a 
breakdown of oxidative homeostatis within the organism ; where TSE 
susceptible mammals living in environments characterised by high 
intensities of manganese and oxidising agents and by low levels of 
antioxidant metals  (Copper/ selenium/ zinc ) combine to create 
circumstances where the central nerves are hyperoxidized - thereby 
kicking off a free radical chain reaction that can proliferate in the 
absence of antioxidant defence

The pattern of emergence of traditional and new variant CJD clusters 
in rural/coastal as opposed to urban areas substantiates this idea, 
as well as helping to dispel the myth that vCJD arises from ingestion 
of BSE affected beef produc

Mark Purdey: Origins of Spongiform Disease Pt1

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More on Mad Cow and related ailments at www.purdeyenvironment.com



EDUCATING RIDA
(Rida is the Icelandic for transmissible spongiform disease)
- An underground scientific journey into the origins of  spongiform disease.

  by Mark Purdey.

Background.

Since 1986, the infamous novel neurodegenerative syndrome , BSE and 
vCJD , has insidiously blighted the heartbeat of British Agriculture. 
The disease has annihilated thousands of cattle and a growing number 
of young people, as well as creating a fierce battleground between 
nations, vested interests, political parties, farmers, victims and 
consumers.
But despite the severity of the BSE legacy , little genuine  attempt 
has been made to crack the causal riddle of these diseases; thereby 
leaving us devoid of insight into measures that would best cure, 
control and , better still, prevent this disease.
But this story shines a ray of light over the whole debacle. It 
charters the eco-detective escapades of maverick farmer / researcher 
Mark Purdey and his original field investigation which ran in tandem 
with the laboratory quest of Cambridge biochemist Dr David Brown to 
unearth the truth underpinning the original cause of these grotesque 
diseases.
Hard evidence so far amassed by Brown and Purdeyís research 
indicates that vCJD and BSE could both result from separate exposure 
of bovines and humans to the same set of toxic environmental factors; 
and not from the ingestion of  the one by the other. If such a notion 
continues to accumulate momentum, a radical upheaval of the status 
quo mindset can be expected.
Despite their appealing story of discovery generated from the 
combined, lateral perspectives of  field and laboratory studies, 
their published works have largely been dismissed and funding 
proposals irrationally rebuffed at peer review.
Contrary to the recommendations to UK government by the 1999 BSE 
Inquiry report, rejection of Brown and Purdeyís various proposals 
continues to present day, including one submission aimed at 
developing a feasible cure for vCJD  !




The Lone Voyager

Mark Purdey first came to the fore when he successfully quashed the 
UK governmentís compulsory warble fly eradication regime in the high 
courts in 1984. This exempted him from treating his dairy herd  with 
a systemic organo phosphorus (OP) insecticide - a toxic chemical 
which, amongst a myriad of toxicological effects, disturbs the 
crucial balance of metals in the brain. Purdey was therefore not 
surprised to witness BSE rearing its ugly head in the UK cattle herd 
in 1986; which, in his opinion, was a direct legacy of the UK 
governmentís warble fly mandate that enforced exclusively high doses 
of systemic OP insecticide in relation to the few countries who used 
this type of insecticide abroad.
Purdey was a working dairy farmer with first hand experience of BSE 
erupting in cattle that had been purchased into his organic farm. He 
was struck by the fact that no cases of BSE had ever emerged in home 
reared cows on fully converted organic farms, despite those cattle 
having been permitted access to the feed that contained the  meat and 
bone meal (MBM) ingredient - as part of their 20% conventional 
feedingstuff allowance decreed in the organic standards.
>From then on, Purdey became deeply sceptical of the conventional 
consensus on the origins of BSE and its human equivalent vCJD. There 
were just too many radical flaws blighting the hypothesis that bovine 
ingestion of micro doses of scrapie contaminated MBM lead to BSE; 
equally flawed was the follow up theory that human ingestion of BSE 
contaminated beef caused vCJD.

The Flaws in the Conventional Hypothesis.

Purdey cites the following flaws which indicate that MBM / BSE beef 
could not have served as the all-important single causal factor in 
the origins of  BSE/vCJD;

1. Thousands of tons of the incriminated MBM feed was exported for 
cattle feed during the 1970s/1980s to countries that have remained 
BSE-free to date. - eg, South Africa, Sweden, Eastern Europe, Middle 
East, Third World, etc. NB; MBM was exported in straight form or as 
an ingredient of  compounded concentrated feed pellets.

2. Changes in the temperature / manufacturing techniques of the MBM 
rendering process in the UK were blamed for permitting the survival 
of the scrapie agent in dead sheepsí brain, enabling the ìagentî to 
jump across into cattle, thereby producing BSE. Yet in scrapie 
endemic countries, such as USA and Scandinavea, the exact same 
continuous flow system of rendering was adopted five years before the 
UK, yet these countries remained BSE-free.

3. Several US trials failed to invoke BSE in cattle after 
feeding/injecting them
 with massive doses of scrapie contaminated brain tissue.

4. Forty thousand plus cows that were born after the UKís 1988 ban on MBM
 inclusion in cattle feed have still developed BSE. Furthermore,  a small
 number of cows born after the further additional 1996 ban on MBM

Fwd: Re: Radionics (Drought update)

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>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:13:44 -0700
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Thomas Schley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Radionics (Drought update)
>Cc:
>Bcc:
>X-Attachments:
>
>>
>>Jane - I talk to farmer regularly - particularly farmers in 
>>California's Central Valley - who believe that the u.s. airforce is 
>>depositing small particles of aluminum in the atmosphere. They are 
>>doing this with alarming regularity and the effects of these drops 
>>can often be seen, they tell me, by long lasting 'vapor trails.' 
>>I'm told that at times the sky over the valley becomes a 
>>checkerboard, with enough lines to make over a hundred squares in 
>>the sky. Of course, there is even less rainfall in the area than 
>>usual.
>>
>>What's up and why? Who knows? Plausible explanations: the military 
>>working with the forces of globalization to make certain that all 
>>U.S. commercial agriculture will occur in other countries?
>
>
>Allan - this sounds plausible.  According to the journal The 
>Ecologist, the government has been trying to destroy agriculture in 
>the the UK (mad cow desease, slaughtering hoof and mouth infected 
>herds, why is it now called foot and mouth BTW?).

Fwd: Re: Healing

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>Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 22:27:40 -0700
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Thomas Schley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Healing
>Cc:
>Bcc:
>X-Attachments:
>
>Dear Sherry, et al,
>Has anyone had any experience with or heard of any successful 
>experiences using Machaelle Small Wright's MAP (Co-Creative White 
>Brotherhood Medical Assistance Program)?
>-Tom

FWD: Belated Groundhog and Mustard Musings from Jim Duke

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>Mustard Musings
>
>I'm starting the New Year in a new way. I'm auditing the opening classes
>of
>the new school in town, The Tai Sophia Institute of Herbal Healing,
>offering
>a Master's Degree therein. Got back in town from Peru in time to attend
>a
>potluck dinner welcoming the new faculty and the first crop of ten
>promising
>students. I brought my vegetarian lentil soup, described in an earlier
>lentil newletters.  I almost always add a dash of several of the pungent
>
>spices to most of my soups, black pepper, capsicum, garlic, ginger,
>mustard,
>onion, and turmeric, in a sense making many of the antiarthrtic
>phytochemicals including the COX-2- inhibitor curcumin more readily
>available. Yes, now that I am no longer employed by the Herb Industry, I
>am leaning more and more towards food farmacy, at the same time as the
>press is scaring the pants off the public with frightening stories of
>herb/drug
>interactions. They fail to tell us that herbs kill fewer than 100
>Americans
>a year (usually those who are abusing the herb) while prescribed
>pharmaceuticals kill more than 100,000 Americans a year. And they fail
>to
>tell us, as did NBC TV News Jan 29, 2002, that 9 million Americans,
>including one of the President's close relatives, are abusing
>prescription
>pharmaceuticals.
>I'm auditing these classes because I am very keen that this first
>Master's
>Degree Program in Herbal Healing  succeed. I'm auditing so that when my
>classes come up, I can relate my lectures to the lectures the students
>have
>already heard or will be hearing, from such luminaries as 7-Song,
>Soaring
>Bear, Kerry Bone, Steve Dentali, Mary Enig, Kathe Koumoutsias,
>Jacqueline Krikorian, Kathleen Maier, Simon Mills, Rachel Pritzker,
>Aviva Romm,  Lynn Schumake, James Snow,  Kevin Spellman, Claudia Wingo,
>David Winston, and Tom Wolfe. It's been a great pleasure listening to
>Simon Mills pivotal openings lectures on the Six Tastes, in which he
>first covered the pungent compounds,which have triggered this issue of
>my newsletter.
>In their book, Principles and Practice of Phytotherapy, used as a text
>in
>the Tai Sophia Program, Mills and Bone (2000) note that most, if not
>all,
>members of the mustard family contain glucosinolates (sulfur and
>nitrogen-containing compounds, which though not pungent in themselves
>are
>responsible for the pungency). When a glucosinolate comes in contact
>with
>the enzyme myrosinase, located in different parts of the cells of most
>mustyard relatives, the glucosiniolate is enzymatically converted into
>the
>pungent (and corrosive) isothiocyanate. Mustard compresses are still
>widely
>used in Europe for bronchial troubles and chronic inflammatory diseases.
>The mucolytic activities of the hot compounds could be useful in many
>inflammatory conditions.  Glucosinolates and/or their breakdown products
>
>have long been known for their  allelopathic, bactericidal, fungicidal,
>and
>nematicidal properties and lately cancer chemoprevention:
>GLUCOSINOLATE: \Anticancer PC56:5; \Antiseptic PC56:5; Antithyroid
>NIG;\Bactericide PC56:5; \Chemopreventive PC56:5; \Fungicide PC56:5;
>\Nematicide PC56:5;
>
>And here's what my database says about isothiocyanates, not surprising
>since the glucosinolates, when enzymatically altered by myrosinase, form
>
>isothiocyanates:
>
>*ISOTHIOCYANATE: Anticancer PC56:5; Antiseptic MAB; Antithyroid NIG;
>Antitumor MAB; Bactericide MAB; Chemopreventive MAB; Fungicide MAB;
>Hypotensive; Goitrogenic MAB; 450- Inhibitor X11506821 ; Mucolytic MAB;
>\Nematicide PC56:5;   Respiradepressant; LD50=120
>
>Most interesting to me in Mill's lecture was his description of a
>British
>mustard handbath for digital arthritis or arthritis of the hand. Simply
>put
>some dry powered mustard into a pan of hot water. Then immerse your
>hands for a few minute. Deep penetrating action detoxifies, apparently.
>It's
>certainly worth a try. How well I remember my mothers last ten years.
>Both
>of her hands were almost locked uinto the curved position by what I
>assume
>was arthritis. And every time my hands lock up due to too much garden
>work, I fear that I'll suffer the same fate. But, taking command, I get
>on my
>exercise bike, get those dumbells, peddling as I exercise the very
>muscles
>that are tending to cramp up. I believe the rheumatologists when they
>say
>that one of the best things for arthritis is exercise. And if I find
>them
>locking up on me rheumatically, I may use some powdered mustard in a
>handbath. Or maybe I'll cook up a big batch of mustard greens, with
>black
>pepper, capsaicin, curry, garlic, and onion, and drink half the
>potlikker
>and steep my hands in the other half. (making it even more potent by
>psiking
>with horseradish or wasabi..
>But now, let me warn you, as Simon Mill skillfully warned his audience.
>Appropriately used, these can be very good phytomedicines. But overdo
>it,
>and you're in trouble. These compounds are corrosive and will cause
>blisters
>(sometimes

ADMIN: PIONEERS SHARE SECRETS

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Please - No attachments to BD Now! Thanks -the moderator

Fwd: Agri-Synthesis® Remedies Tested At UAI

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>Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 18:21:54 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Lorraine Cahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Agri-Synthesis® Remedies Tested At UAI
>
>Allan,
>
>One last time, please post this.  Thanks
>
>Lorraine Cahill has tested my field sprays as a third party, independent
>tester.  Everything she applied my AgriSynthesis® Field Sprays and Food
>Sprays to came up 360 or better which translates as perfect balance, to
>quote Lorraine.
>
>In other words, no matter what she tried them on, they raised the life
>force and the balance to a level she considers perfect.
>
>On direct testing of my field spray concentrates, she tested them as
>high as 2,160 or SIX times around the wheel.  I'd like to see someone
>top THAT!
>
>Agri-Synthesis® Remedies work because they're full of life.  When
>sprayed on food, you get all the "biodynamic" taste without the
>"biodynamic" hassle.  They work instantly and the change is permanent.
>
>I'm not afraid to have my remedies publicly tested by an uninterested
>third party.  When will JPI get theirs tested?  When will Harold Hoven
>at BDANC?  What about Hugh Lovel's remedies?  When will all the other
>"prep" makers in the US and Canada send theirs to Lorraine to be
>tested.  She's the best at this.  I would think they would be proud to
>get them tested.  I would think that they would be anxious to know
>whether or not their remedies worked as well as they should.
>
>Greg

Present moments and A moment in time

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fwd from David Lillard

It's About Time

As the clock ticks over from 8:01PM on Wednesday, February 20, 2002, time
will (for sixty seconds only) read in perfect symmetry. To be more precise:
20:02, 20/02, 2002.
It is an event, which has only ever happened once before, and will never be
repeated. The last occasion that time read in such a symmetrical pattern
was long before the days of the digital watch (or the 24-hour clock):
10:01AM, on January 10, 1001. In addition, because the clock only goes up
to 23.59, it is something that will never happen again.

FWD: Demeter Non-profit - Not!

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Dear Allan and Listmembers,

Due to a momentary misalignment of my brain cells with my eyeballs, I
mistakenly typed in the numbers 401(c)(3) when I should have typed in
the numbers "501(c)(3)".  My apologies for the error and any confusion
it may have caused.

And Jane Sherry, please read the email carefully.  I said Demeter was
incorporated in Massachusetts and resides in New York State.  I checked
with the office of the Secretary of State in both states and both told
me that Demeter does not have non-profit tax exempt status.

In order to clear up any confusion, an organization or a company cannot
have one without the other.  You cannot declare yourself "non-profit"
WITHOUT securing "tax exempt" status.  The IRS likes to know about these
things because that means they owe back taxes and penalties.

Demeter may be operating at a financial loss but that does not grant
them the right to declare that they are "non-profit" without the
approval of the state and federal governments.  That is misleading and
it is considered fraud.

Hugh Lovel's organization, Union Agricultural Institute, was originally
chartered in the State of Georgia as a non-profit but Hugh never, as far
as I know, pursued that through the tax collectors at the state or
federal level.  Thus, UAI cannot claim tax exempt, non-profit status.
They must pay taxes and nobody who gives money to UAI can legally deduct
that donation from their income tax.

If in fact, Demeter has secured this status, they should prove it to the
public they purport to serve.  I suggest that you email Demeter and ask
for the proof.  Or, call the Secretary of State in New York, where you
reside also, and ask them what I asked them.  Does Demeter Association,
Inc. of Aurora, NY have non-profit, tax exempt status.  That would clear
things up, wouldn't it.

Greg Willis

Thank you for forwarding this, Allan.

Fwd: Demeter Non-Profit - Not!

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>Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 13:13:06 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Demeter Non-Profit - Not!
>
>Dear Allan and All Listmembers,
>
>On Saturday, I received in the mail a copy of "THE VOICE OF 
>DEMETER", ISSUE NO. 15, WINTER 2002.  On the back cover is a plea 
>for money under the title "BECOME A FRIEND".
>
>I direct your attention to the opening statement, which says, and I quote:
>
>"Become a friend of Demeter and join the circle of supporting 
>members.  The Demeter Association, Inc. is a national, independent, 
>non-profit, corporation . . ."
>
>Wait just a minute.  "Non-profit"?  I have a letter in my possession 
>on Demeter letterhead, written and signed by Anne Mendenhall 
>explaining to me that I could neither ask for nor receive copies of 
>Demeter's 990 IRS filings because Demeter Association, Inc. not 
>registered by the IRS as a "401(c)(3)" non-profit corporation.
>
>So here's the dirty little secret that they don't tell unsuspecting 
>people who contribute money to their organization.  Demeter 
>Association, Inc. was incorporated in Massachusetts as a corporation 
>that intended to become a non-profit organization.  According to the 
>officials with whom I spoke in the department of the Secretary of 
>State in Massachusetts, Demeter Association, Inc. never applied for 
>tax exempt non-profit status in Massachusetts.  When I inquired 
>whether or not they enjoyed tax exempt status in the State of New 
>York where their offices are located, again I was told that they do 
>not have tax exempt non-profit status.  And, when I checked with the 
>IRS, they told me that Demeter does not have federal tax exempt 
>non-profit status either.  That would be 401(c)(3) designation.
>
>Well.  Isn't this interesting?
>
>I would recommend that anyone who becomes a "Friend of Demeter" 
>demand a copy of the IRS papers granting the company current federal 
>tax exempt non-profit status or the contributor can't deduct it on 
>their personal or company income tax.  Then I'd make some serious 
>inquiries with Demeter and the BDA since them support Demeter 
>financially.
>
>
>
>Am I the only one in the whole damn UNIVERSE who cares that Anne 
>Mendenhall and Demeter look like they're running a scam?
>
>Is there anyone out there who cares that it looks like they're 
>committing fraud in the name of biodynamics and Rudolf Steiner?
>
>Are the people on this list so frickin' apathetic that they don't 
>give a crap that when Demeter does something that has all the 
>appearances of being fraudulent and unethical, it smears anyone and 
>everyone who calls what they do "biodynamic"?
>
>I'd like to know where the BDA stands on this.  Let's see the proof, 
>Anne.  Let's see the proof, Chuck.  If you've got it, so be it.  If 
>you don't, you should tell your members, subscribers and those whom 
>you certify that you lied.
>
>How about it all you Demeter/Aurora Organic certified farmers, 
>winemakers,breadmakers, vegetable growers, coffee growers, 
>herbalists, flower growers and vineyard owners?  Ask Mendenhall for 
>proof.  Put it up on the web.  Let everyone see it.   Prove me wrong.
>
>NO ONE IS "NON-PROFIT" UNLESS THEY ARE GRANTED THAT STATUS BY THE 
>IRS AND THE SECRETARY OF STATE IN THE STATE IN WHICH THEY OPERATE. 
>Period.  Anything else is fraud.
>
>I, for one, am appalled, but not surprised.
>
>Greg Willis

Re: Radionics (Drought update) FOR BDNOW

[bdnow]

Please Forward. Thanks.

>I truly do not mean to bash anyone. It is just a shame to see such a
>wonderful concept turn into
>such bickering, anger and the need to prove or put down.

Dear Chris, Allan, Hugh, Glen, et al,

Well, that's one opinion. Everyone has one.  We all tend to see things
through our own experiences and prejudices and I think that this is a
particularly prejudiced view.

As I see it, there are two opposing forces at work in Steiner
Agriculture going on in the U.S. at this moment.  I base this on many
facts, not the least of which is the absconding of term "biodynamic" by
Demeter & Co.  But hey, let's not, for the moment, focus on all the
incredibly stupid and self-serving things that Demeter, BDA and JPI have
done in the past 20 years, let's focus on what's really going on.

The two opposing forces are represented on the one hand, by those,
generally, in/on BDNOW who want to explore, expand, modify, improve,
innovate and apply hard science as well as, shall we say, 'not so hard'
or intuitive, metaphysical science to the notions and suggestions that
Steiner brought to the world in his lectures and through other means.
In other words, work to make it grow and become more effective and
acceptable.  We're the group struggling to find a simple word to define
what we do and what Steiner did that's not "biodynamic".

On the other hand, or side, is the group of people who believe in and
support the BDA, Demeter and JPI.  These people represent the ones who
want total control (re: trademark) over all that is "biodynamic" in the
U.S. and beyond.  I say "beyond" since the rulers at Dornach have
approved and financed the vapid, unethical treachery carried out by
BDA/DAI/JPI.  (I digress.)  Generally, this group can be characterized
by a LACK of desire to explore, expand, modify, improve, innovate, apply
hard science and develop 'not so hard' science or intuitive insights to
what Steiner offered.  They are more interested in promoting and
preserving a religion than in helping others and by virtue of their
exclusive knowledge (as Lorand once told me "only for the BD
priesthood") and control of "biodynamics" in such a way that money flows
to their organizations and officially sponsored consultants, they
perpetuate their organizations rather than develop, legitimize, expand
and bring Steiner Agriculture to the greater world, as RS wanted.

You may disagree with these characterizations. That's OK.  This is how I
see it, however.

There is a general dialog on BDNOW, which, on occasion, includes
bickering, anger, the need to prove and put down, as within any family,
but more often than not includes a lot of information about Steiner and
related practices that would never see the light of day in the BDA
journal, on the Demeter website/newsletter or in JPI publications.  They
simply don't have the far ranging, wild-ass point of view of Steiner
that others do.  (In looking for legitimacy, i.e. control, they have
lost their credibility.)  They have limited imaginations and a limited
understanding of the Universal Laws and Principles underpinning
Steiner's work.  Frankly, I don't think they even understand Steiner.
If they did, they'd be way ahead of us with new products and
innovations.)

Forgive them.  They don't understand BDNOW, one of the most used
listserve sites on the internet, and it's potential for spreading THEIR
point of view.

Now I ask you the most important question in this missive.  Have you
ever seen any attempt at dialog by the self-appointed "leaders" of the
"official" "biodynamic" associations - BDA, DAI or JPI - on BDNOW?
Maybe once or twice in the past.  I'm talking now.

Here's where the gauntlet is thrown down.  IF THEY REALLY BELIEVED WHAT
THEY SAY AND PROMOTE, THEY'D ENGAGE IN THE DIALOG ON BDNOW and would
defend what they do and say vigorously.  They don't.  And it's easy to
figure out why.

When was the last time you read an email from Anne Mendenhall (Secretary
of BDA and Director - Demeter), Chuck Beedy (Executive Director - BDA),
Andrew Lorand and Alan York (BDA approved BD consultants), Lincoln
Geiger (Board Member - Demeter and BDA), Heinz Grotzke (Associate Editor
"Biodynamics"), Jean Yeager (VP - BDA and Anthroposophy Association
Bigwig), Hugh Courtney (Director JPI and BDA), Ernie Harvey (Prez. BDA),
Christoph Altemueller (BDA Board) or Harold Hoven (Director - BDA and
gardener/teacher at the Rudolf Steiner College in Sacramento)?

You don't and you won't.  None of them has the courage of their
convictions to debate in public on BDNOW.  They prefer the dark corners
of agriculture over which they think they have influence.  That's why
they stole the trademark.  They're not interested in any change or
excoriation that could erode thei

Re: companion planting

[bdnow]

Dear Dan and Laurel,

Especially for the leaf cutter ants spraying with chilli or soap 
would not help. A simple method can be adopted looking into the 
region i.e heavy rainfall.

Collect sufficient ants and crush them. Put about 5-10 grams of 
crushed ants in small shallow tumblers with about 50 ml water. Keep a 
few tumblers  in the garden. On a less rainy day you can even spray 
this solution at 5-7% concentration on the rose plants. Kindly 
standardize the concentration that suits your area.You can see the 
magic works.

The reason is that when you catch the ants and crush the ants release 
alarm pheromones which repel the other ants. If you can have a spray 
all over the garden on a rainless day the results would be very 
interesting.

We have tried in some of our projects to manage some insect pests.

Kindly inform me regarding the results.

Regards,
Dr.Thimmaiah
Consultant
Natura Agrotechnologies
Consultants in Organic Agriculture, Biodynamic Farming and Solid 
waste Management
268/15A, Faridabad-121007
INDIA
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: Radionics (Drought update)

[bdnow]

>Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 17:25:38 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Radionics (Drought update)
>
>Hugh Lovel said:
>
>Somehow rotational grazing and compost tea has slipped past all the
>censors
>I'm aware of but I'm not so sure about paramagnetics, water
>restructuring,
>cloudbusting,  weather patterning, etc.
>
>What I'm saying is we can't use the term BD or biodynamic to indicate a
>complete system way of thinking because the "owners" of these terms
>aren't
>all-embracing enough to let such a thing happen. We may use these terms
>as
>all-embracing on our own behalf, but somewhere along the line we will
>run
>into flak for it. This gives an appearance to outsiders that, yes, BD is
>a
>somewhat narrow cult, and how many are willing to submit to passing the
>litmus tests for BD certification when these tests are to say the very
>least arcane? Do you pass the tests in NZ? I don't pass the tests here
>in
>the states, I assure you. Shucks. BD has ended up with some
>all-embracing
>folks involved in it, I think because one has to be pretty all-embracing
>to
>get to BD. But as it stands I think the die-hard BD organizations will
>never be all-embracing.
>
>Dear Hugh,
>
>You make strong points.  If I may, let me give my take on this issue of
>what is and isn't "biodynamic".  In my view, after having read and
>reread the Ag. Course for so many years, I think it is clear that when
>all is distilled out of it, the remedies are the essence of "biodynamic"
>agriculture.
>
>Consider that one can do all the other practices that are ascribed to
>"biodynamic", one can do all the other practices that biodynamics
>organizations claim is "biodynamic" but without the remedies, there
>simply is no "biodynamic" agriculture.
>
>Everything else is "organic" or "conventional", in both the narrowest
>and broadest sense of the terms.
>
>I find it annoying when some "biodynamic" guy claims that, for example,
>companion planting is "biodynamic".  That's nonsense.  Companion
>planting existed long before 1932 when the term "biodynamic" was
>created.  You can go through the entire list of what is and isn't
>"biodynamic" and NONE of it is in the Ag. Course.
>
>So I would say that the one and only criterion to be "biodynamic" is to
>use the nine Steiner remedies.  Everything else is bells and whistles
>added on.  So if you do that, and you want to call yourself
>"biodynamic", you would be absolutely correct.  Of course, "biodynamic"
>is trademarked so you can't call yourself that anyway without the
>approval of Demeter and everybody knows where I stand on them.  Oh well.
>
>Greg

SFW: Microbial Counts in terra preta?

[bdnow]

>Hi Ted -
>
>Very interesting!  I do not believe I have ever had a sample sent in, but as a
>child, I visited the Amazonian rainforest, and I recall the rich, dark, dark
>brown earth in places.  I agree, the micro-organisms in that material must be
>amazing.  We need to re-create it in our own soils here, where we retain the
>humic acids instead of plowing and plowing, adding toxin after toxin, and
>destroying the "savings account" of our soils.
>
>Thank you so much for the information!
>
>Elaine
>
>Allan Balliett wrote:
>
>>  >  about this already, to me, this is a very humbling post. -Allan
>>
>>  Here's an interesting read with soilfoodweb implications.  The March cover
>>  story of the Atlantic Monthly is "1491" by Charles Mann.  The article
>>  examines the belief by some archaeologists, anthropologists and historians
>>  that the pre-Columbian western hemisphere was much more heavily populated,
>>  more developed, and more sophisticated than many of us learned in school.
>>  Like Jared Diamond's _Guns, Germs, and Steel_, Mann's article points out
>>  that Old World diseases actually conquered native peoples, destroying an
>>  overwhelming majority of the population--perhaps 95%.  But this article
>>  goes further in examining the agricultural accomplishments and ecological
>>  impact of American Indians.  Whereas Diamond points to the multiplicity of
>>  crops developed and spreading from the Tigris-Euphrates breadbasket, Mann
>>  says, "...in agriculture they [pre-Columbian farmers] handily outstripped
>>  the children of Sumeria."
>>  Another controversial topic is the possible impact that large Indian
>>  populations may have had on the Amazonian river basin -- what
>>  "improvements" they may have made on what is now viewed as true wilderness.
>>  In the midst of that discussion were these intriguing paragraphs:
>>  ===
>>  ...According to William I. Woods, a soil geographer at Southern Illinois
>>  University, ecologist's claims about terrible Amazonian land were based on
>>  very little data. In the late 1990's Woods and others began careful
>>  measurements in the lower Amazon. The indeed found lots of inhospitable
>>  terrain. But they also discovered swaths of --rich, fertile
>>  "black earth" that antropologists increasingly believe was created by human
>>  beings.
>>
>>  , Woods guesses, covers at least 10 percent of Amazonia, an
>>  area the size of France.  It has amazing properties, he says. Tropical rain
>>  doesn't leach nutrients from  fields; instead the soil, so to
>>  speak, fights back. Not far from Painted Rock Cave is a 300-acre area with
>>  a two-foot layer of  quarried by locals for potting soil. The
>>  bottom third of the layer is never removed, workers there explain, because
>>  over time it will re-create the original soil layer in its initial
>>  thickness.  The reason, scientists suspect, is that  is
>>  generated by a special suite of microorganisms that resists depletion.
>>  "Apparently," Woods and the Wisconsin geographer Joseph M. McCann argued in
>>  a presentation last summer, "at some threshold level ... dark earth attains
>>  the capacity to perpetuate -- even regenerate itself -- thus behaving more
>>  like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material."
>>
>>  In as yet unpublished research the archaeologists Eduardo Neves, of the
>>  University of Sao Paulo; Michael Heckenberger, of the University of
>>  Florida; and their colleagues examined  in the upper Xingu, a
>>  huge southern tributary of the Amazon.  Not all Xingu cultures left behind
>>  this living earth, the discovered.  But the ones that did generated it
>>  rapidly -- suggesting to Woods that  was created deliberately.
>>  In a process reminiscent of dropping microorganism-rich starter in plain
>>  dough to create sourdough bread, Amazonian peoples, he believes, inoculated
>>  bad soil with a transforming bacterial charge.  Not every group of Indians
>  > did this, but quite a few did, and over an extended period of time.
>>  ===
>>
>>  Maybe Elaine Ingham has already done microbe counts on this .
>>
>>  The current issue has not yet been posted at the magazine website,
>>  http://www.theatlantic.com/
>>  so I'm uncertain whether the full article will be available on-line.
>>  Enjoy, -Ted Patterson

FSW: Weeds and Insects

[bdnow]

>
>Hi Tobias -
>
>Yes, "weeds" deliver messages about soil conditions.  I have never noticed or
>correlated information about insects such as you suggest.  Surely there must
>be some information we should be paying attention to there, but there are many
>more environmental conditions that influence insects than influence root rots
>or root-feeding nematodes.  And I am a microbiologist, not an entomologist.  I
>don't know insect life cycles the way I know fungal, bacterial, protozoan or
>nematode life-cycles.  We'd need to bring in another expert to begin to
>correlate this information.
>
>Now that you bring it up, I will keep this idea in the back of my mind, and
>see if I can pull something together.  I will probably bring this up with Andy
>Moldenke, and see if he can comment.
>
>Sorry I couldn't be more help.
>
>Elaine
>
>
>
>Allan Balliett wrote:
>
>>  >
>>  >  Dear Elaine,
>>  >  plants and in particular "weeds" can give us a fair idea about the
>>  >  condition of our soil.Does the same apply to insect damage?
>>  >  Some insects are pod piercing/sucking like GVB others pod and leaf
>>  >  chewing like Heliothis others are stem boring and so on.Do the
>>  >  different operating insects indicate or point to certain conditions
>>  >  inthe soil and or plant?
>>  >
>>  >  Thank you
>>  >
>>  >  Tobias Koenig

Fwd: Allan Savory Center in Albuquerque

[bdnow]

>
>
>
>A recent post by "Merla" mentioned the Allan Savory Center in Albuquerque,
>I want to know if someone has direct experience with their "holistic
>management for ranchers" diploma or can provide further info about their
>pproach and reputation, beyond what is available at their web site.
>
>Many thanks for your replies
>
>Guillermo



>
>SNIP



>M.C. Guillermo Romero Ibarrola
>Coordinador de Relaciones Externas de la Rectoria
>Universidad de Colima, Colima, Mexico

Now a few words from Masanobu Fukuoka

[bdnow]

Billions of years passed after the dawn of creation. Bacteria arose on
the earth's surface, then vegetation flourished, and animals and man
emerged. All arose and developed naturally. All things in the universe
undergo constant change together; there are no exceptions. Believing himself
to be the crowning achievement of God-made in God's own image, mankind set
about to fashion the future with his own hands. But millions of years ago,
the monkey who, by such reasoning, was the most advanced and highly evolved
of the organisms on earth never claimed to be the lord of creation or made
in the image of God. It simply lived in nature and didn't worry a bit. Only
man today wonders what he should eat and how to live; only he frets over
tomorrow. We should be concerned first with why, living as we do in nature,
we are so reluctant to entrust our future to God.

Clever man does not know life; he agonizes over death and asks, "What should
I eat?" I generally do not know what word to use when I talk of human life,
just as I have difficulty expressing the notion of death. Whenever I try to
say what one must live by, or, stepping back a little, when I try to explain
in concrete terms what food to live on, I always fear being understood in a
narrow, limited sense and forced to give an explanation that can only be
specious.
This is why the only explanation possible is to say that all one has to do
is to live. Pressed further, all I can do is explain as well as possible
what manner of living is true to man by resorting to some vague, abstract
analogy: "The sparrows live by picking at the seeds in the grass growing
over there. All man ever had to do himself was simply to live." That is
about the only explanation I can give.

People stumble right from the start by asking themselves what they should be
eating. They turn inquiring eyes to the form, quality, and value of food,
wondering what they should reach for first and what is important. Gradually,
a few specific foods are selected as necessary for man from the large number
present in nature, and the rest are cast aside. This thinking grows even
worse, culminating eventually in the conviction that there is no harm in
growing and eating whatever one likes.

First there is nature and there is food, and in the midst of this lives man.
That was the original state of the world. But the moment that people hearken
to the view that first there is man and he produces the crops of his
choosing, humanity is transformed into an arrogant lord who commands nature.

Man believes that he has spared and made wise use of nature. He thinks that
human intelligence is superior to the wisdom of nature and God. But although
humanity can learn from nature, it is not able to control or guide nature.
One could say that nature bears the wisdom of God.

It has taken nature five billion years to create plants, animals, and man.
How can scientists hope to know what organisms to create to supercede man?
Man shouldered the hardships of growing crops from the moment that he began
to think he could grow food for himself with human knowledge. He has become
an animal that can survive only by processing and cooking the food that he
eats. It is like spitting up at the heavens. These efforts have had the
effect of destroying nature and ravaging mankind.

Of course, I have no intention of saying simply to stop processing and
cooking food. It is just that I am worried over the process whereby precious
food is transformed by false human knowledge into evil food, degrading and
corrupting humanity. Human knowledge has passed beyond the bounds of
naturally derived knowledge. I reject human knowledge that deviates from the
wisdom of God. I am afraid that mankind may refuse to live in an inhabitable
nature and may cut himself off from the future with his arrogant intellect.

Creation is like a magnificent orchestra playing the symphony of nature.
Humanity should have been content as one member of that orchestra.
Bored with just watching the natural drama about him, mankind has been drawn
toward a stage where he can play a one-man show. Well, by tracing the
effects that his disregard for nature and the progress made in the foods
that he promoted have had on his own destiny, we get a good idea of where
exactly this absurd struggle leads. Wild, primitive wheat arose on the
Mesopotamian plains in the Middle East. Wild rice is said to have originated
in southern China, Burma, and remote parts of Assam. Rice also reportedly
existed since antiquity in the Saharan region of Africa. Ancient man who
settled in these three great birthplaces of grain began cultivating the wild
rice and wheat that grew there, in this way coming by an abundance of food.
It was here that the Mesopotamian, Chinese, and Egyptian civilizations were
built up. But today, each of these regions has been totally transformed to
desert. All that remains are vast, desolate ruins. Why should this be?

I strongly doubt that this was the result of changes in clima

SFW: Inspired by Jennifer: Recommendations for Starting a Garden

[bdnow]

Hi Allan -

Like Will, I prefer a holistic answer.  The Albrecht model gives you part of
the answer.  Biology gives you part of the answer.

But with improving soil biology or chemistry, either or both, you can use some
testing to tell you whether the biology or chemistry is right on, or how far
off it is, or you can use the trial and error method.  Your choice.  Which is
best for you?  Only you can answer that one!

If you want to know where you are, you can use the map and do some testing by
looking around, and get to your destination in a short period of time.  Or you
can just wander and hope you figure out where you want to go and generally take
a very long time, maybe never, to get where you want to go.

Using scientific methods requires that you know where you want to get to, so
you know when you've arrived.  Use testing methods to tell when you aren't
there, and to make suggestions about how to get there the most rapidly we know
how.

So, to send in samples to be tested, or not?  How soon do you want to know you
have attained a good soil condition?  How soon do you want your soil to be
healthy?

So, how to start.  Decide what area you want to know about.  I like to take the
"sickest" area, since if you get that healthy, all the rest of the area should
also then be healthy.  Figure out which plants you want to put where.  What
rotations will follow in what areas?  Sample from the areas that you want to
know about then.

Take 5 to 10 small soil cores, typically each core 0 to 3 inch depth, 1 inch
diameter.  You want to hit the root zone, however, so if your roots are at 6
inches, remove root samples from 6 inches, the rest of the soil core at 0 to 3
inches.  That's the depth we have sampled soil from all parts of the world, in
all sorts of plant species, in all times of the year.  Mix all of the cores
together, fill 1/3 to 1/2 of a sandwich size sealable plastic baggie with the
mixed soil, fill out an SFI submission form, and send to the lab.

Typically, you send a similar sample to do a soil chemistry.  Look at both sets
of data.  If you have questions about the interpretation, call and talk to us.
Hopefully, we'll get you started.   Hopefully we will determine what each BD
prep does to the critters in the soil - enhance, reduce, neutral.  We should be
able to relate that to the benefit to the plant as well then.  We should be
able to tell you what kinds of foods or inocula to add to the soil to bring
along the health of that soil.  How to get rid of root-feeders, how to improve
water infiltration, water holding capacity, nutrient cycling.

Making sense?  Anything more?

Elaine

Allan Balliett wrote:

>  Elaine - This is a broad question posted to the list that you may
>  want to provide a response to. It has struck a chord with the BD
>  community on BD Now! and many scenarios have been suggested. These
>  suggestions swing between two polls "Get good soil test from an
>  Albrecht lab and follow the recommendations' and "Don't test your
>  soils, just compost compost compost for several years."
>
>  I tried the 'compost compost compost' approach in the beginning and
>  can't help but think it held my gardens' quality back. It would be
>  nice to see how you suggest a home gardener get started!
>
>  Btw, I sat in on two lectures by Will Brinton at PASA. He had some
>  excellent informatin on possible contaminants in (municipally
>  sourced) compost and made some serious 'holistic' recommendations on
>  composting. I plan to post his presentations as sound files on the
>  web in the very near future.
>
>  Thanks, Elaine
>
>  -Allan
>
>

SFW: Compost tea vs Compost

[bdnow]

Hi Dan -

Compost has more organic matter than compost tea, basically the
non-soluble types of organic matter that do not dissolve in water.  Thus,
the benefit from compost is for a much longer time period than compost
tea, or nearly any other kind of amendment.  John Buckerfield in
Australia showed that compost would benefit grapes for 4 to 5 years after
a single application.

But the cost of transportation and application can be a killer when it
comes to moving compost very far. So, compost tea is a good choice in
those areas where long distances or a lack of application machines are
issues.

Compost tea contains the soluble nutrients from compost, all the species
of organisms we see in compost, but at lower numbers in the tea than in
compost.  Thus, the benefit from compost tea is not for as long a time
period as compost.  The long-term food resources in compost don't
dissolve in the water, so they stay behind.  The benefit from compost tea
may be only for months to a year.

But, the benefits are much the same from both compost and compost tea, if
made correctly.

Does that answer the question clearly enough?

Elaine


Allan Balliett wrote:

>   From Dan Lynch -
>
>  Please compare and contrast the application of compost and compost
>  tea to the soil.
>  Like to understand the advantages and disadvantages of each more than
>  just the obvious.  Of course one disadvantage of compost tea compared
>  to compost would appear to be the lack of organic matter. Thanks, Dan

SFW: Testing compost in South America

[bdnow]

Hi Jose -

This is great news!  Excellent work!  But, yes, you need to have the ability to
test there in Brazil.  In a microbiology lab, you need to ask them if they do
direct counts of the organisms.  If someone is interested, we do help 
people set
up labs in other countries.  Basically, we ask that you work with us 
by allowing
us to do your quality control.  We train your people, do alot of research with
you, keep you tied into the global-compost tea world.  You set up the lab, hire
the people, etc.  Works well in Australia, New York, and about to open labs in
Washington, Idaho, North Dakota, Hollland, and South Africa.  So, if you are
interested, we'd love to train someone to set up a lab there!

Elaine

Allan Balliett wrote:

>  Question to Elaine Ingham :
>
>  I live in Brazil and I manufacture Compost Tea machines.
>  I might have sold so far like 30 of those machines.
>  Most of the customers are happy by the results they have
>  in terms of practical results for disease control mostly.
>  They also speak very favourable about the nutritional quality
>  of the compost tea. I only use worm compost .
>  However, some "techies" do need more than practical results.
>  Having looked to papers all their lifes they believe more in a wrong
>  figure in a piece of paper than a wonderfull result in the field.
>  So, my question is : How can I send you a sample of the Compost
>  Tea to be analysed in your lab knowing that I live in a foreign country
>  thousand of miles away ?
>  Second: In case the logistics of the sampling operation wouldn´t work
>  out , what sort of analysis should I ask for a Soil Microbiology lab here
>  in Brazil ?
>
>  Thank You in advance
>
>  Jose Luiz
>  
>  -
>
>  >  I just got back from PASA and found an email from Elaine offering to
>  >  take more BD Now! questions about compost tea and soil foodweb
>  >  matters, so, send them up here, folks!!
>  >
>  >
>  >  Also spent a few hours with Will Brinton (and a hundred or so other
>  >  people) today. Very impressive! Pause for thought, that's for sure.
>  >
>  >  Anyway, let's not let Elaine's offer go unexploited!
>  >
>  >  -Allan
>  >

Fwd: Re: Agri-Synthesis sprays (CAUTION: Contains CriticalComments!!)

[bdnow]

>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 13:34:34 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Agri-Synthesis sprays
>
>
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>In response to the following:
>
>Re:  Forwarded, Jane, from Greg without judgment. Hopefully, Greg will
>explain more to us about his new insights and marketing approaches.
>
>I guess I could get excited about 1000's of middle-aged men walking
>around with potentized preps on their heads in this country!
>
>-Allan
>
>Steiner said to get his remedies out to the world and that will save
>agriculture.  I am doing just that.
>
>I have for years found it incomprehensible this narrow point of view
>that anyone who practices Steiner's methods should pass on the benefits
>to others without any compensation.  In the past 9 years, I've spent
>over $600,000 developing Steiner's ideas.  Now Gidion questions why I
>should be compensated for my time, effort and money.  That's not even
>worth a response except to say this.  Only an idiot or a moron would
>believe even for one second that people don't do EVERYTHING for some
>reward.   Even saints do good acts in the expectation that this will get
>them a return ticket to Heaven.
>
>As I have said repeatedly for years, unless and until the people who
>practice what they call "biodynamic" agriculture and gardening get out
>from under their narrow little focus and see the broader picture and
>potential of Steiner's ideas, incorporate them with their own ideas and
>the ideas of others of like mind, "biodynamic" ag. will continue to
>wallow in the backwaters of the world and we'll continue to endure
>stupid carping about how "It sure shows where certain people's
>priorities lie."  Personally, I don't like not having enough money to do
>anything I want to do.  I'd like to know who "certain people" are.
>Anyway, this is nothing worth talking about right now.
>
>We have field sprays, food and wine sprays and hair sprays and they all
>work.  We're investigating any number of medical applications for our
>sprays.  My girlfriend takes a bath in the remedies and it calms her
>down and softens her skin.  She loves it.  The other night, she went to
>her chapel and was able to meditate and pray for 4 straight hours.  I'd
>say she's on to something.  We've also been able to cure, in part or in
>whole, every plant disease we've encountered.
>
>The other day, one of my friends banged his hand badly.  Had a big
>hematoma on his hand.  Sprayed it with our hair sprays and within 2
>minutes the pain was gone,  Within 30 minutes, the stiffness was gone.
>The only thing he could say was "This shouldn't be happening."  I told
>Hugh about this and he just laughed.  I have some keratosis on the back
>of my hands.  I've been spraying my left hand  for 2 weeks.  The
>keratosis is almost gone.  My right hand looks the same.  I sprayed it
>on my face and in 24 hours, my facial skin was smoother and softer,
>especially around my eyes, and no dark lines under my eyes (I haven't
>been getting much sleep lately).  My girlfriend says I look 3 or 4 years
>younger.
>
>My suggestion to everyone is try our hair spray and get some great
>stories of your own.
>
>Contrast this with those who sit in their apartments all day in front of
>a computer criticizing everything but not accomplishing much.  Compare
>this with the many new remedies and uses of Steiner's remedies that have
>come out of the BDA, JPI and Demeter in the past 60 years (which, for
>those of you who are new to bdnow, is NOTHING.  AP, with his limited
>knowledge of Steiner has accomplished more than they have.  Just shows
>you don't have to be smart to be successful with RS, just innovative,
>strong and intuitive.
>
>Look folks, if you know how to make them work, Steiner's remedies will
>work.  If you don't know how to make them work, buy ours.  They work.
>
>There's a radio personality out here in SFO-Land who reports the oddball
>news.  He ends his broadcasts with this message which everyone should
>take to heart.  CAUTION: It offends those with weak minds.  It makes
>those of us who have strong minds laugh.  He ends his broadcast saying,
>"That's the news.  If you don't like the news, go out and make some of
>your own."
>
>So Gidion, if you don't like my news, go out and make some of your own.
>Or buy our hair spray and get some really good vibes focused directly on
>your brain and Crown Chakra.  It will clear up your thinking in only 2
>weeks.  You just can't beat a deal like that.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Greg Willis
>President
>Agri-Synthesis®, Inc.
>Napa, CA 94581
>707.258.9300
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Elaine Ingham offers to Answer More Questions this Weekend

[bdnow]

I just got back from PASA and found an email from Elaine offering to 
take more BD Now! questions about compost tea and soil foodweb 
matters, so, send them up here, folks!!


Also spent a few hours with Will Brinton (and a hundred or so other 
people) today. Very impressive! Pause for thought, that's for sure.

Anyway, let's not let Elaine's offer go unexploited!

-Allan

From Greg Willis: Agri-Synthesis sprays

[bdnow]

>Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:14:26 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Agri-Synthesis sprays
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>I can now announce that we have formulated our sprays such that when
>sprayed on your hair daily, they stimulate the growth of hair from hair
>follicles on your head that are not dead but dormant.
>
>The hair line on my forehead has moved a full inch forward.  It works
>quickly.  In just 2 weeks after starting a daily application of our
>water based homeopathic herbal/mineral spray, most people will see tiny
>little hairs growing out of your scalp.  Your skin will become smoother
>and softer with fewer wrinkles.  So far, those who have tried it have
>seen up to a 1/4" growth of new hair in bald spots in only 4 weeks.  The
>hair coming in is closer in color to your original hair color.
>
>In short, it brings life back to your hair and skin.
>
>I have discussed this new discovery with Hugh Lovel and Lorraine Cahill
>who are very excited about it.
>
>The introductory price for our hair spray is $99 for a six month supply
>plus $5 shipping and handling.  Compared to Rogaine®, which sells for
>about $60 for a month's supply, or $360 for 6 months, it's positively
>cheap.  It works faster than Rogaine® and contains no artificial
>ingredients or poisons.  The organic herbs and minerals added to the
>purified spring water that makes up the base are at a concentration of
>less than one part per billion.
>
>We have a sufficient supply in stock and ready to ship to handle any
>order size up to 5,000 bottles.
>
>Please post this on bdnow.  Thanks.
>
>Greg Willis
>Agri-Synthesis®, Inc.
>POB 10007
>Napa, CA 94581

Re: Shanti Yoga busted for Whole Milk Sales

[bdnow]

>
>Allan:
>Turns out that Seven Stars and the Kimberton CSA aren't  involved. From
>what I understand from the yogurt folks, it is the nearby CSA and
>biodynamic dairy who had some problems. Even those don't sound like they're
>too major. The CSA was told that they couldn't supply dairy products along
>with their vegetables. The dairy not Seven Stars Farm) sells whole,
>unpasteurized milk from their store, and as far as I know is still licensed
>to do so. I'm not sure what the CSA was doing that violated regulations,
>but it doesn't sound like they face any major repercussions.
>
>Seven Stars Farm continues to go strong, and as Allan points out, continues
>to make the best yogurt around. The community has been very, very
>supportive during the past year, and as near as I can see the farm should
>be around for quite some time yet.
>
>As for "the" Kimberton CSA, we're starting the first season without Kerry
>and Barbara Sullivan. All signs point to a smooth transition. Birgit and
>Erik Landsdowne have moved into the farmhouse, the pledge meeting was held
>a month or so ago, and everybody is looking forward to the first pickup.
>Birgit worked with Kerry and Barbara as an apprentice a few seasons back,
>and spent last summer working in the garden as well. Barbara and Kerry are
>off traveling, but plan to return to help get things started at the end of
>this month before setting off for new adventures.
>
>Bruce

FWD Re: Irradiation and seeds

[bdnow]

The post office only has the one irradiator up and running (I think 
it is located in Ohio, but I might be wrong) for nuking 
congressional, presidential, and some other government mail.

CNN reported that there are going to be congressional hearings on the 
safety of irradiating mail.  Apparently congressional staffers are 
getting sick from their irradiated mail.

But, there are plans afoot to nuke all mail.  Either the post office 
already had contracts, or it is negotiating contracts for enough 
irradiators to do all the mail.

Check out Public Citizen's webpage (citizen.org) for info about food 
irradiation.

---

Fwd: Re: Phylloxera and biodynamic wines (was: Grape Cuttings)

[bdnow]

>From Greg Willis -

>Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 03:30:10 -0800
>From: Greg Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>X-Accept-Language: en
>To: Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Hugh Lovel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lorraine Cahill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Phylloxera and biodynamic wines (was: Grape Cuttings)
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>Please forward to BDNOW.  Thank you.
>
>Please inform Messers Robertson, Heinricks and Wright that Steiner
>mentions a cure for Phylloxera a couple of times in his ag. lectures.
>In 1995, I put together a Steiner/Albrecht/Burbank/Willis based protocol
>which I then tried on two Phylloxerated vineyards in 1996 and 1997.  We
>saved on average over 80% of the vines in each vineyard, a fact that can
>be attested by Messers Michael Topolos and Ralph Riva ( an infrequent
>contributor to Acres U.S.A.).  That was for the first year only.
>Although I was not able to return personally to Ralph Riva's vineyard,
>which was sold for housing, I was able to return to Mr. Topolos'
>vineyard for 4 more years of treatment.  I am happy to say that there is
>no more Phylloxera in the treated part of this vineyard.
>
>Since that time, I have developed even more powerful remedies which
>speed up recovery considerably.  This year, I am using my newer methods
>on several vineyards that have a multitude of disease and insect
>problems including bacterial and viral infections.  What once took 3 or
>4 years to correct, I now see we can accomplish in only one year with
>respect to disease and insects.  Improving the tilth, friability and
>humus content of the soil is another matter which takes some time to do
>but with copious amounts of compost, of the right kind, and with cover
>crops, of the right kind, we now have the capability of accomplishing
>tremendous soil improvements in much shorter times as well.  Believe me,
>I'm only touching this topic.  At Agri-Synthesis®, we can now do things
>with plants and land, and people too, that no one dreamed was possible.
>
>I have developed a homeopathic spray of seven Steiner compost remedies
>that can be applied to the OUTSIDE of a compost pile at a 90% reduction
>in labor time.
>
>Everyone wants to know how we do these miracles.  Well, I'm sorry, I
>can't tell you how.  It's proprietary.  This is information that we've
>spent hundreds of thousands of dollars gathering and 9 years developing
>in the field.  I will say this, though.  Steiner was a genius, he was
>right and he was prescient.  If you want to make his genius work for
>you, you must use ALL of his remedies.  In most cases, they have to be
>applied once each season - summer, fall, winter and spring.  Failure to
>do so guarantees failure at some level.  And you must use horn clay or
>you will never achieve what is possible.
>
>Look.  Let's be clear about one thing.  Steiner's "potions" as one
>viticultural genius called them, are not "preparations".  They "prepare"
>nothing.  Anyone who thinks so simply doesn't understand Steiner or his
>intentions.  They're "remedies".  They fix things.
>
>Some of you over the age of 50 may recall that in the old days of
>pharmacy, prescriptions were called "recipes" or "preparations" made by
>the pharmacist.  The term "preparations" was applied to Steiner's
>remedies in the days when that was a common description of what a
>pharmacist prepared.  You know, I've ranted for years at the stupidity
>and ignorance prevalent in biodynamics and my mind hasn't changed one
>bit.  I would like to see those who profess that they are "biodynamics
>practitioners" to at least drag themselves into the 21st century and
>ditch the word "preparations" or "preps" for nomenclature that is more
>modern, more definitive and more accurate.  "Remedies" is certainly
>easier to use and more understandable by the illiterati who think that
>Steiner was a bozo dealing in witchcraft.  Of course, the term
>"illiterati" applies to the self-appointed "leaders" of biodynamics too
>inasmuch as they also refuse to use the proper terminology.  And I mean
>PROPER terminology.  You want to live in the 19th century.  Be my
>guest.  I don't and I certainly see no purpose in wallowing in the past.
>
>Anyway, I have no trouble recommending planting Vitis vinifera vines on
>their own rootstocks if they use our system of viticultural design and
>management, which is far superior to others and which is, I have been
>informed by a leading self-proclaimed Anthroposophic genius, "Steiner
>inspired" but not "biodynamic®&qu

Re:Selection is in the Calculation: Was Clinton not Bush

[bdnow]

Michael,




I've heard this before and find it totally untrue, not
due to the perception of the person making the
comment, but due to their familiarity with how the
presidential elections are determined.  The sad, sad
thing is that nearly the entire American public is
unaware of how it works!

Actually, it's a left over from the post-Colonial era.
Individual voters - if they vote a straight ticket,
are actually electing a member of an electorial
college.  Then the electorial college votes for their
candidate.  In many cases too, electorial colleges
jump ship and cast a vote for the candidate of the
other party.  This is more or less the situation of
the norm.  In only rare cases does the popular vote
count.. usually when needed as a tie-breaker in the
case of an electorial log-jam.(Perhaps one in
history).  Did you actually believe all the flap
concerning elections that the press represents?

Michael.

>  Y'know, there are times when the rest of the world
feels that US Americans
>  (present company excepted, natch) _deserve_ the bum
Presidents which they
>  elect...  Pity that we have to suffer from their
activities, too, though !
>  Tony N-S.



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Fwd: re:Cec Balancing

[bdnow]

>Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:08:58 -0800 (PST)
>From: Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: re:Cec Balancing
>To: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Hi Jose,
>
>One small fu-fu that I made below was on the ergs of
>Calcium though.  Anywhere from 1 to 499 ergs indicates
>a negative position while 500 + indicates a positive.
>I don't remember the rates that calcium was graded at
>but I believe that temperature is a definate factor at
>play here.  However, the ergs does give one a
>viewpoint or window to evaluate a growth period of a
>plant from.  From what I remember, when the plant goes
>into the seed/fruiting stage is when the greatest need
>for calcium arises.  The plant really sucks in the
>nutrients at this stage so it demands that we pay
>attention to this need and apply our fertilizers then
>in whatever form.
>
>Michael.
>
>
>I believe you have put it in the right way. A Model is
>a guideline. Something to be used as a pathway. Every
>place is difference and every product is a different
>one. I am amazed I just got back an analysis of
>crushed ancient oyster shell and their Neutralizing
>Power is 113% that is equivalent to the best available
>High Quick limes in the market and is totally natural.
>
>Bark in the Steiner conception is nothing more than
>condensed soil and some barks have high Calcium
>levels. In the E Pfeiffer¥s book " Soil Fertilility"
>he recommends preps 500, 503 and 505 to compensate for
>lack of "Lime" ( in this context lime should be
>understood as calcium).page 146. This is why we are
>here. There lots of things that we can do to
>counteract
>lack of Calcium. Maybe to broadcast some calcium
>energies or to broadcast BD 500, 503 and 505.
>Unfortunately I do not have abroadcaster. I wish I
>could have one.
>
>We have to separate two things. One is Calcium and the
>other is lime. I have said that "Calcium" is needed
>for microbial growth not Lime.Please don¥t take me
>wrong. Lime is another thing. Some limes does burn
>Organic matter. Tillage also burns organic matter (
>and consequently humus) not calcium. As far as I know
>Albrecht never that phrase.
>
>Meanwhile we are exchanging ideas and therefore
>interacting a lot.
>
>
>Jose
>
>>  
>>
>>  Please FWD:
>>
>>  Dear Hugh, Jose, etal,
>>
>>  I'm a little confused.  In my memory, one of the
>>  Albrect saying was; "Lime, lime and no manure, make
>>  the father rich and the son poor", which is
>basically
>>  showing how easily lime sucks up and burns organic
>>  matter content.
>>
>>  To open up another can of worms, Dr Carey Reams
>>  suggested that calcuim at times measures less than
>40
>>  ergs at certain times of year and more than 40 at
>>  other times.  Perhaps this is related to calciums
>>  ability to absorb other elements?  Whew, what a
>diet!
>>
>>  Here in the SE what we seem to have a problem with
>is
>>  that calcium disappears so quickly from the soil
>>  complex.  Based on this ag agents are quick to give
>>  advice on liming in total disreguard of the ca:mg
>>  ratio.  So what are we left to do?
>>
>>  The way I seet calcium is that it is extremely
>mobile
>>  in the soil complex.  This leads to the larger
>>  question of how we might be able to get the calcium
>in
>>  a form that will have a greater life expetancy than
>>  those purchased in mineral form; dolomitic, gypsum,
>>  lime hydrate, etc..  Why one time I even got some
>>  calcite and crushed it down to a powder to stir and
>>  spray for its young form.  Why?  At that point I was
>>  convinced that calcium that plants could use came to
>>  us in the form of rocks.  This was until I
>>  happen-chanced on an article concerning cork.
>>
>>  Cork is produced by removing the bark of Quercus
>Suber
>>  L., an oak every 20 years or so somewhere around
>>  Summer Solstice.  I don't know the entire process
>but
>>  the first step in production is boiling to remove
>the
>>  oak bark tannins.  Well to make a long story short,
>>  the bark of this tree is highly polymorphic and
>forms
>>  a
>>  bond that shuts out oxygen; the primary reason for
>>  using cork stoppers in wine bottles - to keep out
>  > oxygen and prevent the wine from turning to vinegar.
>>
>>  I brought this up due to Steiners' using the bark of
>  > the Quercus Ruber oak.  If I remember correctly, ash
>>  analysis revealed a 72% calcium level.  Perhaps this
>>  bark is a living, younger form of calcium.
>>
>>  Jose, I hope you will keep this in mind since you
>are
>>  translating an article into Portuguese and since
>that
>>  quite a bit of the worlds production of cork comes
>>  from Portugul and the Azores. There may be something
>>  more in this mobility of calcium than meets the eye
>>  that can be found in current chemical formulations.
>>
>>  The Albrect Model is just that = a model.  A gauge
>to
>>  go by, a measuring stick.  The key word though is
>>  balance.  A method of balancing.  I think that many
>of
>>  Albrects ideas were based primarily on his local
>>  experiance based there in Missou

Re: [maiz_milenio] News - Alien Corn Invades Mexico

[bdnow]

>Alien Corn Invades Mexico - Pav Jordan/Reuters
>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020130/sc_nm/food_mexico
>_genetics_dc_1
>
>"CAPULALPAN, Mexico (Reuters) - In this one-telephone village in the hills
>of Mexico's Oaxaca state, corn grows out of cracks in the sidewalks, along
>roadsides and anywhere else it can find soil. That may sound like a farmer's
>utopia, but for people in Capulalpan and a host of other mountain
>settlements where corn is a staple of every family's diet, it is more like
>an aberration of nature. Local and foreign scientists have concluded the
>mysterious, ubiquitous corn variety is genetically modified, and illegal. "
>
>See all the current collection of Mexico Photos
>http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=Mexico&c=news_photos
>
>
>--
>The Mexico Network
>http://www.mexiconetwork.info
>--
>
>
>This conference is hosted by the International Center for Cultural 
>and Language Studies (CICE) -- http://www.laneta.apc.org/cice/ -- 
>with online support from the Planeta.com website -- 
>http://www.planeta.com. Archives of this group are online
>http://groups.yahoo.com/group/maiz_milenio/
>
>
>
>El uso de Yahoo! Grupos está sujeto a http://mx.yahoo.com/docs/info/utos.html

Re: CEC Balancing

[bdnow]

Please FWD:

Dear Hugh, Jose, etal,

I'm a little confused.  In my memory, one of the
Albrect saying was; "Lime, lime and no manure, make
the father rich and the son poor", which is basically
showing how easily lime sucks up and burns organic
matter content.

To open up another can of worms, Dr Carey Reams
suggested that calcuim at times measures less than 40
ergs at certain times of year and more than 40 at
other times.  Perhaps this is related to calciums
ability to absorb other elements?  Whew, what a diet!

Here in the SE what we seem to have a problem with is
that calcium disappears so quickly from the soil
complex.  Based on this ag agents are quick to give
advice on liming in total disreguard of the ca:mg
ratio.  So what are we left to do?

The way I seet calcium is that it is extremely mobile
in the soil complex.  This leads to the larger
question of how we might be able to get the calcium in
a form that will have a greater life expetancy than
those purchased in mineral form; dolomitic, gypsum,
lime hydrate, etc..  Why one time I even got some
calcite and crushed it down to a powder to stir and
spray for its young form.  Why?  At that point I was
convinced that calcium that plants could use came to
us in the form of rocks.  This was until I
happen-chanced on an article concerning cork.

Cork is produced by removing the bark of Quercus Suber
L., an oak every 20 years or so somewhere around
Summer Solstice.  I don't know the entire process but
the first step in production is boiling to remove the
oak bark tannins.  Well to make a long story short,
the bark of this tree is highly polymorphic and forms
a
bond that shuts out oxygen; the primary reason for
using cork stoppers in wine bottles - to keep out
oxygen and prevent the wine from turning to vinegar.

I brought this up due to Steiners' using the bark of
the Quercus Ruber oak.  If I remember correctly, ash
analysis revealed a 72% calcium level.  Perhaps this
bark is a living, younger form of calcium.

Jose, I hope you will keep this in mind since you are
translating an article into Portuguese and since that
quite a bit of the worlds production of cork comes
from Portugul and the Azores. There may be something
more in this mobility of calcium than meets the eye
that can be found in current chemical formulations.

The Albrect Model is just that = a model.  A gauge to
go by, a measuring stick.  The key word though is
balance.  A method of balancing.  I think that many of
Albrects ideas were based primarily on his local
experiance based there in Missouri.  Sometime I got
the impression that Albrect was trying to challenge
people into thinking about their own local conditions.

Michael.



>I have glanced the article which was kindly sent
>to me by Dave Robinson or the
>Walter Goldstein's article from Sept Biodynamics
>" Cation Balancing : Is it beneficial or Bogus ?"
>It came to me as a surprise because I had this
>magazine in high respect. To my knowledge they don¥t
>have any one to review the articles otherwise they
>would not allow such a bunch of crap like that to be
>published . Here is why. >Page 30 First paragraph. "
>The effect of calcium ( a divalent cation) in
>stabilizing structure is not as strong as that of
>iron ( a trivalent cation) but it is stronger than of
>magnesium ( a monovalent cation)" (sic).
>Is  Mr Goldstein an iliterate person or is he a
>misinformed person ?
>How can a magazine such as Biodynamics allow low
>quality material to be printed ?
>Not only the article is full of bad information but
>this person did not do his home work properly.
>Mr Goldstein who has no knowledge on The Albrecht
>Model ( I know that because his level of doubts are
>the ones from a person who has not readed the 4
>volumes of The Albrecht Papers or at least the >book
"Hands-on-Agronomy or any other book from Dr >Ardensen
like "Science in Agriculture" or even
>"The Anatomy of Life and Energy in Agriculture")
>tried to write about the Albrecht Model which was the
>culmination of a life time of teaching and research
of
>one of the best person United Stated has ever
>produced. He based his article only in an interview
>done with Neal Kinsey after one of his speaches at
>Acres USA.
>He hasn¥t got a clue. The Albrecht Model today is
>recognized by all major consultants in Eco
Agriculture
>not only in the States but also in Australia and in
>other 25 countries. I have started using 3 years ago
>and I can tell you the difference in my soils are day
>and night.
>I am now able to harvest record breaking crops after
>twenty years of hard working.
>The Albrecht Model was what made that possible and is
>what made the difference.
>I feel sad because today I have just finished
>writting an article about the Albrecht Model
>in portuguese and in march I will teach an intensive
>a course on Albrecht Model for 40 agronomists
>in Brazil who are eagerly waiting and asking me to do
>so. I was nearly forced to teach this course. I had
>no choice so is the interest in hi

Fwd: COW HORNS FOR PREPS

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>Status:  U
>Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 13:39:46 -0600
>Subject: Jalapeno cow jorns
>From: Mark L Shepard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> Available: several hundred range-raised cow horns. These cattle were
>range raised in Montana, and not "finished" in a feedlot. Slaughter occurred
>in Wisconsin and the horns are now being stored in a Certified Organic Dairy
>barn.
> Sizes are mixed... a few suitable for 501, many suitable for 500, many
>suitable for clays and some are so huge that they're only suitable for
>clays.
>
> We're making these available to anyone interested in experiencing the
>process of the "biodynamic" inspired preparations. Since the supply is
>limited, we are offering them according to  "luck of the draw"... Order one
>and it could be any size.
>
> However... If you're seriously interested in doing this yourself, we
>recommend 2 larges, 1 medium and 1 small... for 2 horn clays, a 500 and a
>501. If you order 4 or more horns we will sort them for you, as best we can,
>to ensure that you get the right mix.
>
> Price:  $3.00 each plus shipping.
>
>
>WARNING: COW SHIT STINKS!
>
>
> Mail checks to the:
>
> Viroqua Area Biodynamic Study Group
> 309 E Decker St
> Viroqua, WI 54665
>
>If you have never put a horn in the ground,
>If you have never put your hand in a bucket to spin,
>DO IT!
>...then wonder.
>
>
>In love, light and discovery,...
>
>Your friends in Viroqua.
>
>
>
>
>

JIM DUKE: An Apple a Day

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Status:  U Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:05:14 -0500 From: Thomas Michael 
Kengla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Organization: GrassRootsProductions X-Accept-Language: en Subject: 
Special Newsletter 1-19-02 To: undisclosed-recipients:;

Herb a Day . . .Apple (Apple as Antialopecic?)

  My herb a day. . . column name evolved more than a decade ago. It 
was supposed to remind you of the old adage:  an apple a day keeps 
the doctor away. In the intervening dozen years, I have moved from 
the simplistic concept of an apple and an herb a day, to striving for 
seven. In this second year of this new millennium I suggest you 
Strive for Seven. Yes.  Don't settle simplistically  striving for 
five fruits and five veggies a day, as the NIH implies and implores. 
Stretch yourself, Strive instead for even greater variety, Strive for 
Seven: seven different beans, seven different berries(and larger 
fruits like our apple today), seven different herbs, seven different 
nuts, seven different spices, seven different veggies, and seven 
different whole grains, seven days a week, chased with at least seven 
glasses of water a day, and some juices to boot. That's my 
not-so-secret seven steps to stave off senility. Variety may indeed 
be the spice of life, and a life extender.

  But could an apple a day keep the grim hair transplanter away. Too 
often  each day, as I type away at the computer, the TV in the 
background, I see the glamorous ads suggesting that the T-voyeurs 
compare Propecia, Rogaine, and Transplant for correcting their real 
or incipient baldness. Good looking heads of male hair alternatively 
flash between a provocative views of a scantily clad female form 
fitted into an alluring aqua bathing suit. Tow-headed middle age men 
talk about once more being confident now that they have a full head 
of hair again. But i am here, tongue in cheek after seeing that TV ad 
one more time, to propose an AAAppleShampoo (with forskohlin ans saw 
palmetto) might be as good as the Propecia a/o Rogaine a/o 
Transplant. We'll never know until the four approaches are clinically 
compared, an unlikely possibility. As contrary to the recent  inane 
polemic pharmacophilic pronouncements, we do not know that cipro is 
better than garlic, and will not know until they are clinically 
compared. (I'm back on garlic, having already ingested a course of 
cipro for a bacterial infection I aquired for the Ne Years 
celebration in Amazonian and Andean Peru. That's why I am late with 
this newsletter. Twenty dollars (87 soles) worth of Cipro purchased 
in Cusco scarecely made a dent in my infection. Now here i am 
suggesting that apple/indian-potato shampoo might be as effective as 
propecia and/or orgaine a/o transplant for baldness.

  One kilogram of cloudy apple juice can contain 50 milligrams of 
procyanidin-B-2, which Japanese Scientist, Dr. Tomoya Takahashi, in a 
series of papers, proposes will intensively and significantly promote 
hair epithelial cell proliferation in vitro and stimulate anagen 
induction invivo.  He features procyanidin-B-2, but also mentions 
procyanidin C-1. These two procyanidins  selectively inhibit 
protein-kinase-C, as opposed to other procyanidins which 
indiscriminately inhibit both Protein-Kinase-A and PKC. [ [My 
Dorland's defines anagen as":the phase of the hair cycle during which 
synthesis of hair takes place."] Other selective protein kinase C 
inhibitors, such as hexadecylphosphocholine, palmitoyl-DL-carnitine 
chloride, and polymyxin B sulfate, show marked anagen phase-inducing 
propecic activity in vivo. Nonselective protein kinase inhibitors, 
such as staurosporine and K252a, actually inhibit the growth of hair 
epithelial cells. 1,2- Dioctanoyl-sn-glycerol, a protein kinase C 
activator, dose-dependently decreases the growth of hair epithelial 
cells. Forskolin, an adenylate cyclase activator, promotes hair 
epithelial cell growth and boosts the growth-promoting effect of 
procyanidin B-2.] This last quote from Takahashi (2000, X10859531) 
led me to dream up an aromatic antialopecic anagenic apple juice, a 
concentrated (by evaporation) apple juice to which aromatic Coleus 
forskohlii (and/or its forskohlin) has been added. Applied on a warm 
towel to the scalp, this should thicken the hair, according to 
Takahashi, albeit taking as much as three months to six months. 
Takahashi concldes "Procyanidin B-2 therapy shows potential as a safe 
and promising cure for male pattern baldness." And I suspect it is 
cheaper than hair transplant.

   Last year, I was tempted to write an herb a day column about the 
apple, tiggered by a London Associated Press story, Jan. 19, 2000 
which concluded that eating at least five apples a week could help 
you breathe more easily. That send me to the refridge for an apple 
today, two weeks into one of the worse cases of bronchitis, COPD, 
cold, cough, flu, pleurisy, sinusitis, many if not all of the above 
inconvenintly rolled up with diarrhea and

FWD: DDT for You and Me was Re: Spraying in airplanes etc (wasWhy do the potentized prepswork)

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Please Fwd:

Hi Allan,



Sounds a bit like we're in the same age group.  I remember that after 
moving from Conway, SC that I learned of the death of one of my 
friends that was run over by a fogger truck on his bicycle while 
darting in and out of the fogger clouds. I didn't think at that time 
how prophetic his death was but did remember that an odd feeling 
arose in me at that time concerning it that said his death would not 
be in vain.

What's more is another question.  Now that the developers and real 
estate agents are hopping on the same areas and deleting the wetlands 
through drainage, I just wonder how much residual ddt is still 
hanging around in there? This is important too since those areas are 
still habitat for lowcountry black bear populations.

But in all this is a moral.  The people who are moving into those 
lands are pretty much the same ones that look down their noses at 
Southerners and come in to displace all existing culture. It may be 
interesting to watch these areas since the water table there is only 
a few feet from the surface.

Michael Smith

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Fwd: Nutrition Seminars with Sally Fallon Jan 15-19 throughout Florida

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>Status:  U
>Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 18:10:22 -0800 (PST)
>From: Louise Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Nutrition Seminars with Sally Fallon   Jan 15-19   throughout Florida
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Discover Research that shows:
>
>   … Butter is the number one health food
>   … The vital role of high-cholesterol foods
>   … The dangers of modern soy foods
>   … The scandal of soy infant formula
>   … Health problems caused by vegetable oils
>   … Food preparation for maximum taste and nutrition
>   … Foods that help babies grow up smart and strong
>   … The importance of grass-based livestock farming
>
>January 15 ñ 19, 2002
>
>NOURISHING TRADITIONS SEMINAR
> with Sally Fallon
>   Author of "Nourishing Traditions"
>
> Saturday, January 19, 2002
>10 am - 6 pm
>
>Winter Haven, Florida
>
>   Registration (by 1/15/02)  $40 At the Door  $45
>   
> $10 discount per ticket for Students, Seniors
>& Groups of 10 or more. 
>Work scholarships are available.
>
>   Seating is limited to 500
> so be sure to register early!
>
>
> AND
>
> Pre-Seminar Evening Sessions:
>
>îDIRTY SECRETS OF THE FOOD PROCESSING INDUSTRYî
>   with Sally Fallon
>
>   7 - 9 PM
>
>Tues, Jan 15Sarasota, FL- Lions Club
>Wed, Jan 16 DeLand, FL  - Howard John. Express
>Thurs, Jan 17   Lake City, FL   - Holiday Inn
>Fri, Jan 18 Clearwater, FL  - Polish Club
>
>
>Pre-Registration   $ 10   At the Door   $ 15
>
>
>Discover:
>… Nutrient-Dense, Enzyme-Rich, Old Fashioned Foods
>… Whole Foods for High Energy, Vibrant Health &   
>  Protection from Disease
>… Proper Preparation of Grains, Nuts, Seeds &
>  Legumes for Maximal Nutrition
>… Why Grass-fed animals provide more Nutrition in
>  Milk, Eggs, Poultry & Meat
>… Why Animal Fats & Cholesterol Are Not Villains
>  But Vital Factors in the Diet
>
>
>Sally Fallon:
>
>Journalist, nutrition researcher, chef, homemaker and
>community activist, Sally Fallon is the author of
>ìNourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges
>Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet
>Dictocratsî, with Mary Enig, PhD, a world-renowned
>expert in the field of lipids and human nutrition.
>This well-researched, thought-provoking guide contains
>a startling message: animal fats and cholesterol are
>not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary
>for normal growth, proper functioning of the brain and
>nervous system, protection from disease and optimum
>energy levels.
>Sallyís interest in the subject of nutrition began in
>the early 1970s when she read a life-changing book
>called ìNutrition and Physical Degenerationî. The
>author, Dr. Weston A. Price, was a dentist who was
>dismayed by the increasing incidence of tooth decay,
>dental deformities and numerous health problems in his
>patients. During the 1930s and 1940s, Dr. Price
>traveled to isolated parts of the world to study the
>health of so-called primitive populations and to
>analyze their diets. He found fourteen groups that
>enjoyed vibrant health and a virtual absence of dental
>problems. He took photographs to document the striking
>facial structure and superb physiques of isolated
>groups consuming only whole, natural foods, rich in
>animal factors. Price noted that the diets of all of
>these groups were rich in vitamins A and D, found only
>in animal fats. In fact, foods rich in these
>ìfat-soluble activatorsî were considered sacred foods
>and very important for pregnant women and growing
>children.
>Mrs. Fallonís book ìNourishing Traditionsî puts the
>findings of Dr. Price into practical form. It has
>stimulated the public health and medical communities
>to revisit the importance of traditional foods and
>proper preparation techniques in human diets and to
>reexamine the many myths about saturated fats and
>cholesterol. This comprehensive cookbook combines
>accurate information on nutrition with delicious,
>practical recipes, placing special emphasis on the
>feeding of babies and children, to ensure optimal
>development during their crucial growing years.
>
>Other themes in ìNourishing Traditionsî include the
>importance of traditional broths as a source of
>minerals and as an aid to digestion; proper
>preparation of whole grains, nuts and legumes to
>neutralize enzyme inhibitors and mineral-blocking
>substances found in all seed foods; and ancient
>techniques for food preservation that enhance nutrient
>content while supplying beneficial digestive flora on
>a daily basis.
>Mrs. Fallon explains the importance of returning to
>organic farming and pasture-feeding of livestock. Only
>by returning to mixed-use farming can important
>nutrients be restored to our vegetables, grains and
>animal foods. She encourages farm-based, value-added
>and artisa

ADMIN: Re: 'Visions' while meditating

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>Woody - Unless anyone has an objection, as moderator, I have no 
>problem with you posting this information to the list. (The better 
>to see it with, you know?) Thanks _Allan

SFW!: Working on hardpan

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Dan - Please see the last paragraph - Allan

>
>>  >In an interview with an Aussie here
>>  >http://www.nutri-tech.com.au/Interviews/Interviews10.htm
>>  >Elaine is quoted below.  I would like for her to elaborate from her
>>  >experience and maybe provide more reference that could be
>>  >researched.  Dan
>>  >
>>  >Elaine:  "The reason the pan is formed is because the soil got
>>  >compacted, then went anaerobic. It always is the micro-organisms
>>  >getting the life back into that
>>  >hardpan that opens it up and prevents it from reforming as a
>>  >compacted hardpan zone. Soil-life is the key. It needn't take very
>>  >long with biology. Work at Ohio State University shows that you can
>>  >break up a hardpan at four inches in six weeks by just getting the
>>  >right kinds of fungi into that soil. You can break up a hardpan at
>>  >four feet in six months."
>
>The work at Ohio State was performed by Harry Hoitink and some of his
>students, and if I remember correctly, is in his book about compost.  He
>tends to like to use fir bark-base compost, which is usually very
>fungal, and the fungi are typically the strongly disease suppressive
>species.
>
>My work on hardpans is the result of our work developing the database at
>SFI.  The dark black color, the smell associated with the hardpan tells
>you that it is or was strongly anaerobic for quite some period of time.
>Assessment of the biology shows that within the hardpan layer that
>anaerobic organisms are in the majority.  More work needed?  Yes, but
>when would a scientist not say that?
>
>Will I publish this work?  Someday.  It is mostly anaecdotal however, in
>that it is observation-based.  What is needed is  to have a fully
>aerobic soil, compact it, add food resources for the organisms, and show
>the development of the anaerobic layer, with alteration of the
>chemcial/physical structure of the soil into what most soil scientisits
>would agreee is a hardpan - i.e., a layer that water will not move
>through, or move at a much slower rate than the soil above or below.
>Typically, the clays have collapsed and require floculation in order to
>re-develop the spaces to allow water movement.
>
>I'm not really certain what more you are asking for with this question.
>I usually take these kinds of vague "want you to elaborate" questions as
>fishing for information.  What exactly are you fishing for?  A more
>straightforward question would be appreciated.
>
>Elaine Ingham

New Member Introduction

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Greetings,
Our project is in the City of Albuquerque on Open Space Land. It has 
a very public face and is used by walkers, joggers, etc. We lease the 
land from the city to demonstrate agricultural projects including an 
annual 8 acre corn maze, 1 acre community garden, and 40 acres of 
veggies, hedgerows, and crops for wildlife demonstrating agroecology. 
ABQ is a migratory fly over zone for the beautiful cranes, so our 
wildlife crops serve as habitat and food for them in the winter. The 
entire property is 138 acres, but we sub-lease the remainder to a 
local dairy farmer who manages it for hayland. We don't have the 
equipment needed to manage the whole property. We utilize the 
traditional acequias or ditches as our irrigation system. We are 
certified organic in the fields we manage, but haven't bothered with 
Demeter, as it has little value for our audience. Although they 
always are interested to see us spraying etc, and ask questions.
New Mexico has a fascinating cross-cultural agricultural heritage, 
but is rated in the bottom 5 of the nation in poverty. One-third of 
NM's children are hungry. We have just received a USDA food security 
grant to incorporate growing fresh food for the food charities into 
the project. This is very challenging because of a lot of problems 
with disease and pests. We hope the BD will help to strengthen the 
life forces of the plants to be able to resist these problems.


We sprayed Hugo Erbe's recipe for Frankincense, Gold and Myrrh on 
Three King's Day. Have you ever worked with this?
Cheryl

Fwd: In the season

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>Status:  U
>Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 09:00:55 -0700
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: Thomas Schley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: In the season
>
>Hi Allan,
>
>A couple of days ago I sent a message to envirolink listproc to 
>rejoin, but so far have not heard a thing.  So am sending this 
>question and observation directly to you.
>
>Does anyone have a reference for when the seeds in the ground start 
>to "quicken"'?  I believe Steiner actually gave a date, somewhere 
>between the Holy Nights and mid-January, but I can't find the 
>reference or recall the date.
>
>Observation:  we had lovely skies with pink cloud formations 
>throughout the Holy Night evenings.  The formations were similar in 
>intensity but not shape to what I've seen at Easter (once in Alaska 
>actually saw clouds in shape of cross during mid day on Easter!).
>
>Also find it so different here in that we are having to irrigate 
>once a month in winter to keep roots alive.  This is necessary say 
>the locals, on those dry years when there is no snow cover or rain 
>on the fields.  Monday was our day, and we had the ditches running 
>full from our well for the morning hours.
>Not something I've experienced in the East.
>
>Tom

WOODY WODRASKA: A Manifesto for Seeds

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http://www.kootenay.com/~aurora  and ACRES USA: The Voice of 
Ecoagriculture (You can subscribe at http://www.acresusa.com)



WE HAVE ALWAYS KNOWN THIS--A MANIFESTO FOR SEEDS


  We are seed users, seed eaters, seed growers...all of us.  We have been
wrapped in a world of seeds for eons, since long before agriculture. In
hunger we ate the bird that ate the seeds; in happy accident we brewed the
beer from spoiled and worthless seeds; in unwitting service to the plant we
transported its seeds on our trouser cuffs.  We slobber over ear corn and
eat our Wheaties.  It's in our language: We are of our parents' seed, our
ancestors' seed, Adam's seed ultimately.  We are born into, thrive in, die
in, a seed sowing, seed garnering heritage.  To deny the status of the
sacred to these time capsules, these enfoldments of life we call seeds is to
court foolish disaster.  We have always known this.

But...now they're messing with our seeds.  The power grabbing corporations
and governments  propose in their arrogance and disrespect to
irradiate...manipulate... defructify...monopolize and further commodify our
ancient birthright, our real wealth: SEEDS.   We are strong when we have our
seeds, and they know this.   They would enslave us and they would use as
leverage the seeds we cherish, the seeds that nourish us.  What we would
pass on to the seventh generation as bridegift they seize as strategy.
They would put a price on the priceless and sell it back to us.

Leave our seeds alone.  Leave our seeds in the hands of the people who feed
us...the family, the clan, the village group.  The profession of "seedsman"
was created only 130 years or so ago.  Perhaps it was an aberration to try
to  centralize, and then commodify, a process that had before been disbursed
in village gardens, homestead gardens, middens and small fields.
Grandmothers and Great-uncles collected, watched over, cherished the seeds
that came down to them.  Grew them out with love and patience and infinite
care.  Grandmother's seeds... grandmother's blessing...passed from
generation to generation.  Ancestors' blessing.  Reckon three generations to
a century and 150 centuries in the history of agriculture and you have
several hundred generations of seed gathering folk, seed saving
grandcestors, passing on precious seeds to descendants.  Seeds too precious
to buy and sell; seeds that must be gifted, presented.   There is memory
encapsulated in this line of life stretching so far back.  Feelings are
there too...feelings of gratitude to Gaia, of holding dear, of well wishing
to the future generations, feelings of faithfulness...feminine feelings.

The memory is right there in the seed, in our cells, in the mitochondrial
DNA passed down the feminine line.  When I touch my seeds I tap the memory
that is there, instinctive wisdom almost lost, beaming itself into our
consciousness just when it is most needed.

  John Trudell said: " It's about our D and A. Descendants and ancestors. We
are the descendants and we are the ancestors. D and A, our DNA, our blood,
our flesh and our bone, is made up of the metals and the minerals and the
liquids of the earth. We are the earth. We truly, literally and figuratively
are the earth. Any relationship we will ever have in this world to real
power-the real power, not energy systems and other artificial means of
authority-but any relationship we will ever have to real power is our
relationship to the earth." (1)

Seeds are concentrated wealth.  Seeds are worth far more than we pay for
them now, in this aberrant commodity trade.   You can pack in a suitcase
$10,000 worth of garden seeds in any variety you choose.  The slavemasters
and their propagandists would have us believe that money is power and, since
they have money in plenty, that they are in control.  They don't want us to
have that suitcase, to be free to leave and plant elsewhere; free to stay
and plant many gardens, feed many people with real food.

If we are staunchly of the Earth, her power is ours to neutralize and
transmute the evil work of the authority-mongers, those without conscience.
We can do this with  life enhancing actions.  Repeat.  Life-affirming
actions override, overwhelm, the lifeless.  Always the great stone temples
of the arrogant become topsoil for living systems.  It's something the
corporations and governments fail to appreciate.  Their authority rests on
entropic processes, explosions, coercions,  cultural lies.  They cannot take
into account the power of life, the connectedness of life.  They would have
us forget where we come from...so we can be entertained and exploited and
addicted to their cheap dream, their gadgets and their ersatz food.  If we
are staunchly of the Earth we have access to the strength of the
generations, the ancestory, to help us put life and affirmation in the
places where death-dealing had been.  We can REMEMBER from where our power
comes.  Let us plant gardens.  Let us plant trees.  Let us tend cows.

Let us join Wendel

ATTRA Internships List 2002 is now available

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--- Please Post to BD-Now 

It's that time of year again, time for Farmers and Interns to make
connections and plan for the upcoming growing season.

I am pleased to announce that the Year 2002 edition of "Sustainable
Farming Internships and Apprenticeships" resource list from NCAT's
ATTRA program is now available in both print and electronic
formats.

Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships
http://www.attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/intern.pdf[PDF]

This is the PDF version.  It is 120 pages long, at 17,444 K, so
it will take a while to download on a modem.  Please feel free to
call and order a print copy at 800-346-9140.

The HTML version will be available at a later date (i.e., February).
http://www.attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/intern.html[HTML]

The 2002 edition contains over 270 entries describing farms,
educational training centers, and organizations offering internships
and apprenticeships in organic farming and sustainable agriculture.

In addition, the Internships List provides a fascinating glimpse into
farm life and characteristics of small farm agriculture in the United
States, because the descriptive entries were written by the farmers
themselves.

We have farmers reporting from Alaska to Virginia that,
year-after-year, the interns who come to work and live on their
farms learn about these on-the-job training opportunities through the
ATTRA Internships List.

Sustainable Farming Internships and Apprenticeships is compiled by
Katherine Adam, NCAT Agricultural Specialist.
Please direct any questions to:  [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Print copies may be requested through:

Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas (ATTRA)
P.O. Box 3657
Fayetteville, AR 72702
800-346-9140
8 am - 5 pm CST
http://www.attra.ncat.org
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Sustainable Greenhouse Design Workshop March 22-23 YORK, PA

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SUSTAINABLE GREENHOUSE DESIGN
AND YEAR ROUND FOOD PRODUCTION WORKSHOP
MARCH 22-23, 2002

Learn how to design, build and grow in a passive solar greenhouse-the 
mistakes and triumphs of years of growing experience condensed into a 
two-day course.

FRIDAY:  HOW TO BUILD
8:00-8:45   Introduction, tour of greenhouse, sustainable food 
systems design
8:45-10:00  Design, size, shape, orientation, energy flows, use 
of suncharts
10:00-10:15 BREAK (provided)
10:15-11:30 Site preparations, squaring up and laying out 
greenhouse, (using batter boards) elevations (use of transit, string 
levels and hose levels)  and actual construction tips for ground 
pins, bows (steel), and base boards
11:30-12:00 Individual or group practice site evaluations, and 
group discussion about choices.
12:00-1:30  LUNCH (Organic vegetarian provided)
1:30-2:30   Gable end discussion and framing hints, door 
construction, possible coverings
2:30-3:00   Plastic glazing and how to put it on. (three different methods)
3:00-3:30   Tunnel construction  (and the next generation)
3:30-3:45   BREAK (Provided)
3:45-5:30   Hotbeds for transplant production how to build 
several types and grow within.
SUPPER ON YOUR OWN

SATURDAY:  HOW TO GROW
8:00-8:45   Interior layout and bed design, use of pathways, 
overhead growing, Biointensive Growing
8:45-10:00  Soil structure, fertility, growing soil, double 
digging (hands on DEMO)
10:00-10:15BREAK (Provided)
10:15-12:00 Plant spacing, sequencing, pricking out and 
transplant (hands on demo)
12:00-1:30  LUNCH (Organic vegetarian provided)
1:30- 4:00  Insect and disease control, scouting procedures, 
slide show of insect cycles, developing insectaries, introducing 
beneficials (hands on work in greenhouse)
4:00-4:15   BREAK (provided)
4:15-5:00   Awareness of and how to avoid nitrate uptake in low 
light greens production
5:00-5:20   Income potential, CSA, lettuce farm model and specialty crops
5:20-5:30   Designing for a sustainable future and closure
(schedule may be modified by instructor and/or participants)




Harmony Essentials:  Dedicated to the Vision and Practices of a 
Sustaining Food System,  Steve and Carol Moore, 1522 Lefever Ln, 
Spring Grove PA 17362, Phone 717 225 2489, FAX 717 225 6007, E-mail 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

The Best to You in this Special Season

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Godspeed in the coming year. -Allan

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, 
always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and 
creation). There is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills 
countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely 
commits oneself, then Providence moves too, all sorts of things occur 
to help one that would never otherwise have occured. A whole stream 
of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favour all 
manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance 
which no man could have dreamed would have come his way.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, 
power and magic in it.

Begin it now. "

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Fwd: Bio-Dynamic weed control

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>Status:  U
>Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:31:51 EST
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Bio-Dynamic weed control
>X-Comment: Original message was addressed to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>Hello,
>
>
>I have been Bio-Dynamic for many years.  I live in Sandpoint, Idaho.  I
>have sold valerian plants to Hugh Courtney for a few years now.  I also
>do a bulk order of Stella Natura calendars.  I'm certified organic, but
>mostly I am a clay artist and sell handbuilt one-of-a-kind animal
>statues for gardens.
>
>I'm also the only organic person on the Bonner County Weed Advisory
>Board and have a grant from the state to do non-chemical weed control on
>an 8-mile road right-of-way that is the feeder road for many private
>roads in my neighborhood.  We had a chemically sensitive man
>living on this road who was injured by a clandestine herbicide spraying
>by the county in 1999 and he has had to move away.  I think that is why
>the state gave us the money. We have been fighting being sprayed with
>2,4-D and clopyralid for 9 years, but haven't really "taken care" of
>the weeds until this summer, our first year of the grant. I didn't own a
>weedeater and they bought us one with all the trimmings.  We spent
>76 hours weedeating the knapweed, tansy, hawkweed and thistle.
>
>I need some way to discourage a lot of so-called noxious weeds. 
>
>I have 15 units of Pfeiffer Field Spray that I hope to put together with
>a D-7 weed ash solution of the four varieties of "weeds" and spray
>every year for four years.  I am thinking that I could repeat just the
>weed ash spraying several more times in the season.  We have built
>a sprayer out of a Shurflo pump to be run off a truck alternator with a
>professional spray nozzel to go on three successive 50-gallon barrels
>down and up the other side of the road again in one pass.
>
>I also thought of demonstrating some other non-chemical methods like
>planting competing plants like rye, native grasses and red clover; mulching;
>in test plots to use up the money, but really, what I want to demonstrate
>is superb weed control that does not harm microorganisms or animals.
>
>Do you have any expertise on this subject that you can share?  The state
>has granted me more money than I can use and won't carry it through this
>year.  I don't want to have it sent back and am writing a sort of grant
>application to the new Weed Supervisor and the Commissioners and also
>trying to interest the Extension Agents.  Bio-Dynamics is so foreign to
>them and nobody believes that we can get rid of the weeds with homeopathic
>doses of a weed ash solution.  I've always just dug up or pulled weeds
>on my own land and I have maintained the strip of right-of-way on either
>side of our private road mechanically for many years.
>
>Thank you for any help you can give me
>
>Merla Barberie
>1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge
>Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Fwd: Re: Soil building with plant matter compost(Collards)

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>X-Originating-IP: [167.7.14.68]
>From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Bcc:
>Subject: Re: Soil building with plant matter compost(Collards)
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 13:52:57
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 18 Dec 2001 13:52:58.0151 (UTC) 
>FILETIME=[4CE8A370:01C187CB]
>
>Please fwd:
>
>Dear Allan,
>
>And others of you southern growers that may relish good collards:
>
>I also appreciate Eliot Colemans' achievments and approach to 
>diseminating the teachings of growing wholesome food naturally.
>
>Years ago I aquired a garden tub after reading his ideas of using 
>aneorobic composting of oak leaves.  Simply place the leaves in the 
>tub and cover with water.  Later on then do a grape pressing dance 
>by compressing the leaves to help leaves break down.  The contents 
>of this
>process can be used in 2 ways.
>
>1.  Strain off the liquid after sufficient breakdown, mix with water and
>spray.
>2.  Or by placing the mass of leaves into beds around the root zones.
>
>If the second option is used, the bed created can be used by other   
>vegtables after the collars are over.  Compost of manure origin can be
>used, but it just doesn't produces the mass that the oak leaves do.  Use
>this method only if you desire to produce collards that exceed 
>conventional ones in both flavor and size. To keep the plants 
>producing
>leaf, simply remove lower leaves as one would do for leaf lettuce 
>and your cabbage palms will begin to form.
>
>Thus far I have been able to extend the growing period of collards up to
>2 years by using this method.
>
>In actuality, Coleman suggested using this on cabbages and not 
>specifically collards.
>
>Michael.
>
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RE: Little Panes of Glass / 501

[bdnow]

Dear Allan,

Please forward:

Dear Jose,

This is exactly my point.  But when using a term as condensation, the 
idea that light is involved in the process goes away and falls to the
heating and electrical technicians. So my point is that these highly 
diffuse elements in atmosphere which are sometimes called 
aethricities, are the basis of water formation as well as providing 
assistance in plant growth.  During summer when air is hot above 
ground, it is cooler
underground. This senario is reversed during the winter months.  Anyway,
I've noticed that in hot summers, when 501 is applied that earth 
tends to harden-off, creating a container of sorts to allow the 
out-birth of
soil water.

Thanks,
Michael.








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Re: Off Topic-BDNow and the Waldorf Critics List (from MichaelSmith)

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>X-Originating-IP: [167.7.14.68]
>From: "Michael Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Bcc:
>Subject:  Re: Off Topic-BDNow and the Waldorf Critics List
>Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 19:35:56
>X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Dec 2001 19:35:56.0595 (UTC) 
>FILETIME=[8CF70030:01C184D6]
>
>Hi Allan,
>
>Please fwd:
>
>What we are seeing here is a disparity that has grown even greater than
>was in Steiner's day.  What disparity?  The distance is between those
>who have an inner-working knowledge of how farm products are 
>produced and those who do not.  Of the ones who lacked the knowledge 
>of how these
>products were produced came the fictional farm management moguls of 
>the University system that imagined all out of the labratory and in 
>numbers
>produced from balance sheets, while the quality of both animal and 
>vegtal products declined, of which no explaination was attempted.
>
>Now, the problem also exists on the other side of the coin.  In this 
>particular situation, the BD farm in question needed to realize 
>first of all what may interest and help the students to enjoy a 
>creative experiance.  First of all, the children do not at this 
>point need to be
>introduced to the BD method. They want to enjoy the animals, the 
>fresh air and take in as much as possible with their eyes.  Ha, it's 
>a bit like planting a seed that will remain with them the rest of 
>their lives.  Their parents on the other hand probably aren't 
>concerned with how the produce is grown either.  But they would be 
>more inclined to experiance through tasty morsels that vitalize 
>their bodies and leave them with a nourished feeling.
>
>This perhaps may be the reason that RS assigned the study groups to 
>small isolated units; to protect them from destructive opinions of 
>outsiders who have no basis for their opinions.
>
>This is almost a re-occurring theme where farmlands are encrouched 
>by nit-picking individuals who base all their understanding of the 
>2-diminsional idea that is recorded on a piece of paper by someone 
>who has
>long since gone and was probably in fact trying to introduce a 
>single idea to a group to expand on later.  How sad, and now that 
>idea that was only a learning devise has become fixed and set in 
>stone and therefore becomes the stumbling block to the person 
>reading it.
>
>Michael.
>
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RESEND: Little Panes of Glass / 501

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(from Michael Smith)

Dear Allan,

Please forward:

Peter Thomkins in Secrets of the Soil reports that Rudolf Steiner, 
before charging students Kolisko and Pheiffer with carring on his 
research,  had observed differences between the formation of ice 
crystals on the window panes of butcher and flower shops.  This 
caught my attention as a noteworthy item.  So it was filed away into 
the cabinets of my mind and I plodded forward.

One Saturday,  in the not too distant past, our daughter found a 
small pocket of quartz in a creek bed.  This brought me back to a 
statement in the SFA; "Quartz is not soluble in water, water just 
trickles around it."  I kept asking myself; "what does quartz(SiO2) 
have to do with water?".

I didn't recieve an answer to this until the past Sunday morning 
while watching a report on Afgahnistan.  In the report, workmen where 
collecting large quartz stones in a dried river bed for use in 
glassmaking.  While showing some pictures of  beautiful bottles a 
brilliant flash occurred and I saw delicate drops of water forming on 
the inside of these beautiful glass vessels as the sunlight angled 
through them.  Could it be that diffuse hydrogen from sunlight was 
knocking loose free oxygen radicals from the walls of glass(SiO2)? 
Then
another flash.  How many times have I found a closed glass jar left 
outside in the sunlight with drops of dew on its' interior.

I thought of the mountains from which streams and rivers flow; all 
composed of silica bearing stone-- and growing water.

So, if I may, the silica spray we call 501, perhaps need to be 
sprayed into the root zone of and on the plants we grow.  I have 
noticed that sometime thereafter the spraying of 501 that the soil 
becomes hardened off.  In doing so, what I imagine that is happening 
is that little beakers  are being formed to collect moisture to 
support the plant from the outfall of this hydrogen with oxygen from 
sunlight(with the support of carbon) - or as Steiner put it "The eyes 
of the Earth".

This too supports Hugh Lovels' idea of having 501 in the compost 
pile, but I would go further and suggest a piece of quartz in the 
piles bottom
layer.

What about applying this to the problem of deserfication? Eh Hugh, 
Peter?  And do think about this to apply to the problem of fresh 
water supplies that World organizations claim are paramont while 
exploiting their productivity.  --- Solutions are inherent.

And so, as men run about collecting and measuring the water that 
falls from above, have they never noticed water that falls up from 
below?
The kind of water that only mother earth gives, never ever realizing 
that water making is the funtion of earth, who after her husband 
comes to her gives forth that nectar of life.  Hmmm, it's like Great 
Grandfather told father;  get the turkeys out of the rain before they 
drown.

All through little panes of glass.

Michael.

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ADMIN: Not Receiving BD Now!? Viruses and BD Now! Subscriptions

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I'm writing this primarily to those of you who are reading from the archives.

I'm at the ACRES USA conference with Hugh Lovel until 12/10 and won't 
be of much service to anyone until after that date.

This recent spate of viruses has caused a very high number of BD Now! 
subscribers to be unsubscribed from BD Now! The same problems have 
caused many other subscribers to loose their abilitiy to receive 
email. Even if you have not been infected by the virus itself, you 
may have been affected.

At it's simplest, all the attachments that are being mailed by the 
virus are filling up ISP mailboxes. I have never had my mailbox 
overfilled and yet, twice now I have lost my email capabilities due 
to my 10mb mailbox being over filled. Although I am on a major US 
ISP, I was never notified that my mail was being bounced due to an 
overfull mailbox, and yet it was.

I encourage you to take a look into your mailbox. Use a 'webmail' 
tool because what you are looking for may be emails that you normal 
mail tool is blind to. (I think 'www.popmail.com' is a web mail 
reader that will work for those of you who do not have webmail 
through your ISP.)

Until this spate of foolishness abates, you may want to make checking 
the actual content of your ISP mailbox part of your daily hygeine.

If you are not currently receiving BD Now!, you are going to have to 
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'subscribe BD Now!" in the subject and your name and physical 
location in the body of the mail.

All this reminds me: how come you radionics folks haven't fixed this 
net virus problem yet?

Thanks and your patience is appreciated.

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