Re: A Neo-agrarian culture and a question

[Gil Robertson]

Hi! Peter,
My heart goes out to you. I looked after my mother in her last year and for me
it was a full time job. I then had the kids at high school, while my wife worked
in a distant city, then she lost her step mother and then her father, in the
same city. So I had three and a half of the past six years on my own. The kids
are now in other cities and Fran is home again, but it is a big issue. I feel
for you.

If you need to talk, please feel free to hit me off line.

Gil

Peter Michael Bacchus wrote:

 Hi Rex, I didn't get to make that trip and as I am now part time caring for
 my aging mother I'm unlikely to be going far for a while.

Re: A Neo-agrarian culture

[Peter Michael Bacchus]

One ten year cycle that comes to mind that is effective in weather is the
Saturn cycle. It is one third of a full cycle which puts it in a symilar
value constelation. When it has a watery element behind it the seasons are
ususaly wetter, the production higher and the prices lower.
Cheers,
Peter.
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Re: A Neo-agrarian culture and a question

[Rex Teague]

On 19 May 02, Peter Michael Bacchus wrote:

 One ten year cycle that comes to mind that is effective in weather is
 the Saturn cycle. It is one third of a full cycle which puts it in a
 symilar value constelation. When it has a watery element behind it the
 seasons are ususaly wetter, the production higher and the prices
 lower. Cheers, Peter.

Interesting?? 8-)

My prosaic understanding of cycles is very much limited to the big 
lines as Marie puts it... it's a Dutch expression. Ray Tomes popped 
up on another list I was on and he struck me as having a good 
command of the subject hence the reference I sent along.

Peter a question I've been meaning to ask you. If I remember 
correctly you were to visit Europe in the first half of this year and 
time permitting, hunt out some research on heating sources for 
cooking. Any joy... I'm extremely curious?

Cheerio... Rex

Re: A Neo-agrarian culture

[Allan Balliett]

Christy - Thanks for taking the time to make this good post on the 
Neo-Agrarianism event.

I discovered this good Wendell Berry page this morning:

http://brtom.org/berry.html

There's a lot of good stuff here. Check out the links page, it points 
to more good information by and about Wes Jackson and others.

-Allan

Re: A Neo-agrarian culture

[Anthony Nelson-Smith]

Thanks, Christy, for the notes on Wes Jackson's 
talk. On a minor point, I picked up on the '1 nuclear accident every 10 
years' estimate. As a coastal marine ecologist, I figured out that (around 
the NW European coastline) we have averaged one severe winter and one serious 
oil-spill every ten years. Is there something special about this period 
? I seem to remember that the sunspot cycleruns over11 years 
(near enough ?). Tony N-S.