Re: Peat and coconut wastes

2002-06-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Hemp may be too stable to rot down quickly enough. It's durability is around that of linen. It's many well documented uses as a fibre or for paper would make it much too valuable for such minor uses. If it was not for Dow Chemical and the subservient US Governments, past and present, the world wou

Re: Peat and coconut wastes

2002-06-09 Thread Cheryl Kemp
When we were in India we saw many piles of coir being burnt, as they have problems breaking the lignin down and so it doesnt rot. One BD farmer was using the coir on the compost, but he was having to brew up specific fungi, I think Pleurotis was one, (for lignin) and another for utilising the cell

Re: FW: Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming

2002-06-09 Thread Frank Teuton
I think what Steve is getting at, is that this post violated copyright. - Original Message - From: "Steve Diver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, June 08, 2002 8:44 PM Subject: Re: FW: Soil Fertility and Biodiversity in Organic Farming > Moen Creek, this pos

Fw: [globalnews] The Man with the Hoe: The Origins of Terror

2002-06-09 Thread jsherry
THE MAN WITH THE HOE God made man in his own image, In the image of God made He him. Genesis Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in his face, And on his back the burden of the world. Who made him dead to rapture and

Fw: [globalnews] How to Build for Eternity

2002-06-09 Thread jsherry
HOW TO BUILD Catastrophe will come; or worse than catastrophe, slow mouldering and withering into Hades. But if you can fix some conception of a true human state of life to be striven for - life, good, for all men, as for yourselves; if you can determine some honest and simple order of

Fw: [globalnews] THE POWER OF THE INITIATOR

2002-06-09 Thread jsherry
THE POWER OF THE INITIATOR Anyone who can, as a result of deep meditation, start with small beginnings and try to utter a word to help or heal another human being, or who can stay in a period of silence for the sake of some larger purpose of benefit to humanity, can come to know what it is

Fw: [globalnews] THE GUARDIAN WALL

2002-06-09 Thread jsherry
THE GUARDIAN WALL Know that the stream of superhuman knowledge and the Deva-Wisdom thou hast won, must, from thyself, the channel of Alaya, be poured forth into another bed. Know, O Narjol, thou of the Secret Path, its pure fresh waters must be used to sweeter make the Ocean's bitter wa