Re: Need help

2002-09-18 Thread Merla Barberie
How many frogs/turtles for $250...sstorch Hi S, Do I remember correctly that you are Steve?  Thanks for answering my request.  I feel an urgency to come to the Mid-Atlantic Conference.  It is a trip long deferred and an opportunity to meet you and many BD workers who have given my day-to-day exis

Re: FWD: West Nile Virus and the Flu

2002-09-18 Thread matt kober
thank you for the homeopathic health tips. IMV, the most dangerous aspect of the WNV is it's diversionary usage in the media. matt(newbie) --- Allan Balliett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from Joe Lillard and the National Center for Homeopathy > > > West Nile Virus (WNV) is responsible

Re: Need help

2002-09-18 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Merla, I wish I could help but am not in a position to do so. As a one time potter and a one time gallery owner, packing pottery is easy with lots of newspaper. Wrap each piece in at least six layers of paper, hold in place with two inch packaging tape. Then pack is strong cardboard cartons,

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread Jane Sherry
Thanks Chris & Christy! I'll find a way to cobble something together. I've planted spinach, dandelion, kale, turnip greens & dill & parsley in one area of my garden about 5' x 5'. By February, when the csa has been long over (ends just before Xmas) we are usually going whacko for real food. I fin

FW: [globalnews] (Water for All) Report Highlights Benefits ofPublic Ownership of Waterworks

2002-09-18 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: FW: [globalnews] (Water for All) Report Highlights Benefits of Public Ownership of Waterworks BLUEGRASS FLOW PUBLIC CITIZEN Sept. 17, 2002     Report Highlights Benefits of Public Ownership of Waterworks Communities Better Served Through Municipal Control; R

Re: farm journal

2002-09-18 Thread kentjamescarson
about wasps,... I've been following the conversation about yellow jackets, and wanted to share an observation about wasps. we used to kill wasps nests around the place because if one bumps into one ,especially a child , there is hell to pay. Now however we don't ,unless they nest in an obvious pla

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread kentjamescarson
hi Jane , I agree with your fellings about the mega shipped in produce from ca. We now have a 15x20" unheated greenhouse that buts up to out garage, that has occasional wood heat There are 24' x 20' beds., that are planted with many things cherry tomatos nasturtiums (climbing) string beans all t

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread gary elliott
Hello... An Idea I have used for cold frames came from Elliot Coleman's book "The 4 Season Grower", and it worked quite well for me. It was simply low frame made of 2" x 12 " lumber, screwed or nailed together into a rectangle approx. 3ft x 8 ft, with wood framed storm windows laid over the top.

Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Teresa Seed
Hi all, A few days ago I sprayed my first BD preps - now I feel I'm a fully paid-up member of this list! On the bare ground that I sprayed, after clearing it of couch (hours and hours doing this) I put calcified seaweed, paramagnetic rock dust and some fairly well-rotted horse manure (full of

Re: farm journal

2002-09-18 Thread Liz Davis
More wasp stories - around the mud house I live in the wasps are aplenty. Within the crevices they lay their larvae and stuff the hole with insects and then seal with mud. In one round sprinkler that wouldn't work last summer, I broke the seal of mud and counted 74 spiders packed in the 3" circle

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread Rex Teague
On 18 Sep 02, gary elliott wrote: > An Idea I have used for cold frames came from Elliot Coleman's book > "The 4 Season Grower", and it worked quite well for me. Like Eliot, Leandre & Gretchen Poisson are influenced by Scott & Helen Nearing and published by Chelsa Green. Their book "Solar Ga

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread kentjamescarson
where do you live teresa? I've planted rye as late as mid november here in southern delaware and had it germinate. I would try several things turnips and wintercress wheat vetch any greens and see what does well. seeds are cheap and then you'll know for next year what worked and what didn't. :)sha

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread kentjamescarson
opps this should read 'There are 2, 40" x 20' beds., that are planted with many things ect). sorry:)sharon - Original Message - From: "kentjamescarson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:22 PM Subject: Re: Advice for cold frames > hi Jan

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Bosko
Rye has always germinated well for me as a cover. Even last year when it wasn't able to get irrigation water due to the drought, and the rains didn't come until early November. I usually mix it with hairy vetch. Which too, last year both germinated and grew, I'm just not sure if the inocula

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 9/18/02 7:18:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Which too, last year both germinated and grew, I'm just not sure if the inoculant lived through the dry spell tho (dang it). Any one have any thoughts on that btw >> use 500 and bc..sstorch

Re: West Nile

2002-09-18 Thread Lance Howard
Here in SC, about 6 weeks ago, when cases started turning up in LA, a map was printed in the paper showing the southern states where cases had been reported this year. The only blank state on the map was SC though nothing was mentioned of the anomaly in the article. Yet someone must have noticed

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Teresa, I will leave the cover crops to those closer to you. If you have more couch grass, get some turkey, pigeon or chook poo, put a thin layer over the freshly mown grass, water in and cover with thick builder's black plastic, weighed down with planks or what ever. Wait about six weeks and

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Bosko
At 08:13 PM 9/18/2002 -0400, you wrote: >In a message dated 9/18/02 7:18:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Which too, last year both germinated and grew, I'm just not sure if >the inoculant lived through the dry spell tho (dang it). > >Any one have any thoughts on that btw >> > >use 500 and

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: Mike Bosko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 9:14 AM Subject: Re: Cover crop > Rye has always germinated well for me as a cover. Even last year when it > wasn't able to get irrigation water due to the drought, and

Re: Advice for cold frames

2002-09-18 Thread ron poitras
I built one of Leander's solar food dehydrators 15 or 20 years ago. It works but slowly, good for certain easy to dry things like thin apple slices but would take a while to do tomato pieces or anything with a lot of moisture. You need a real warm day & low humidity to dry anything in a day. Most

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Perry Clutts
Mike,   You're on the Biodynamic list that Allan asked you to join earlier today via SANET... sstorch is referring to the "stuff" in the cow horns that Clarence was saying is obfuscation, alchemy, and smoke and mirrors. With all due respect, should you elect to cut off cow horns, stuff them

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Perry Clutts
Mike,   Forgot to mention that Michael Fields Institute is devoted to Biodynamic research. http://www.michaelfieldsaginst.org/ - Original Message - From: Mike Bosko To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 10:43 PM Subject: Re: Cover crop At 0

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Mike Bosko
Ok, interesting.  My wife has been very interested in holistic ideals and energy work.  She's just learning about it, but has a strong fascination.  Admittedly, I'm just following along keeping a positive outlook toward it. But back to the reply, what does "use 500 and bc..sstorch" mean?  Was it j

Who needs GM Foods? - Zambia

2002-09-18 Thread Philip Owen
Who needs GM Foods? By Owen Sichone, Zambian Post By now it should be clear that President Mwanawasa is a nationalist. In a neocolonial setting like ours that sounds like a good thing but in the globalised arena of international politics today it is a dangerous position. Zambians must

Re: Cover crop

2002-09-18 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Mike, Seems no one else is going to answer. "500" is the Biodynamic Prep. make from cow manure, over wintered in cow horns and "bc" is Barrel Compost, again a specific and specially made Biodynamic Prep. Along with about a dozen other "Preps." they are the basis of the particular form of Ener