Callahan Interview

2003-02-10 Thread Barry Carter
Dear Friends, There is a transcript of a great 2001 interview with Dr. Philip Callahan at: http://www.nutri-tech.com.au/Interviews/Interviews9.htm -- With kindest regards,   Barry Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2319 Balm Baker City, Oregon 97814 Phone: 541-523-3357 Web Pages: Forest - http://www.s

Re: BD and steam

2003-02-10 Thread manfred
- Original Message - From: "Steve Diver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 7:59 PM Subject: Re: BD and steam > Flame, Infra-Red, Steam now you're Thanks Steve, for the hot info. In the fall, i was modifying my roofing torch for the same use,

Re: naked chickens

2003-02-10 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 2/10/03 2:34:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << They also don't look like they'd have much meat on them, but I know with our good ol Yankee Know How, we'll splice some hog or turkey genes into them and have them plumped up in no time. >> Can't do that... its not Kosher!

Re:OT Who is harming americans the most

2003-02-10 Thread Eric Myren
"If we could shrink the Earths population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios staying the same, it would look something like the following. There would be : 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the western hemisphere, both north and south, 8 Africans; 52 would be fe

FW: [globalnews] As for modified foods, Europeans just say 'no'

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: FW: [globalnews] As for modified foods, Europeans just say 'no' International Herald Tribune As for modified foods, Europeans just say 'no'   Lizette Alvarez/NYT The New York Times Tuesday, February 11, 2003 'It's not the natural order of things'   TOTNES, England At the Happy Apple

OT: FW: [globalnews] NYC Rally Update - Judge denies March permit- fax, email, call authorities,sign petition

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: OT: FW: [globalnews] NYC Rally Update - Judge denies March permit - fax, email, call authorities,sign petition This is truly a shocking abrogation of our right to free speech in probably the most representative and best known city in the country - New York.  What happens there bodes ill

Re: [wendell-berry] Horowitz on Wendell Berry-Secessionistsagainst the war

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Just another example of people having regrets about their youth and changing sides. Another so called right wing reactionary pretending to be a liberal. Sorry, but Berry's ad was a bright point in my morning paper. Where was this guy, Horowitz last election anyway? Guess having red parents & growin

Re: CT- slow brews and bad names

2003-02-10 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: James Hedley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 6:16 PM Subject: Re: CT=BDcompost,preps+Alaska humus, forest humus & kelp > Dear Allan, > I agree with you on the use of compost teas that are just left to brew in > barrel

HUMOR: Chicken farmers

2003-02-10 Thread RH
Two big-city wannabee "farmers" read a book on biodynamics and decided to buy land so as to take up the venerable art of BD farming. They did manage to get a few rows of seed planted. One day one came home with some chickens from the feed store. Not being sure what to do, they reviewed the M

Re: BD and steam

2003-02-10 Thread Steve Diver
Flame, Infra-Red, Steam now you're talking about some hot topics in weed control. See: Flame Weeding for Vegetable Crops http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/flameweedveg.html http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/PDF/flameweedveg.pdf This is the NCAT-ATTRA pub with all the suppliers and resources. Ec

Re: Crystaline Structure in Water

2003-02-10 Thread B&P Bell
G'day Gil: I just accessed the site - this is the most current info.   http://liteweb.org/hol/hol7.html I copied it into the 'search' and it worked.   Hope it works for you. Cheers Penn Gil Robertson wrote: Hi! Penelope, This link will not work for me. Could you repost, pleas

Fwd: [wendell-berry] Horowitz on Wendell Berry-Secessionistsagainst the war

2003-02-10 Thread Allan Balliett
from [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Horowitz http://www.townhall.com/columnists/davidhorowitz/printdh20030210.shtml February 10, 2003 Secessionists against the war I'm looking at a full page advertisement in Sunday's NY Times by the celebrated counter-culture author Wendell Berry called "A Citizen's

Re: ants in the vanilla, wood roaches on the stove

2003-02-10 Thread Nelson Jacomel Junior
hi all: pyrethrins were formely a pesticide of vegetal origin. The plant is a chrysanthemum (C. Cinerariaefolium), a compositae, and its content in the flowers range from 0.7 to 3%. The vegetal pyrethrin acts as contact pesticide and are very toxic to insects; its effect over human is of low tox

Re: Crystaline Structure in Water

2003-02-10 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Penelope, This link will not work for me. Could you repost, please? Gil B&P Bell wrote: G'day: There is a book out, Spritual Gardening at Its Best, by Don Elwood, His website is www.liteweb/hol/.  His company is Hands of Light Seeds.  There are several books and publi

ants in the vanilla

2003-02-10 Thread Deborah Byron
Hugh Lovel (we miss you, Hugh) has pointed out in the past that an over abundance of ants indicates a formic acid imbalance in the soil and that their presence can be seen as nature's attempt to correct it. I'm wondering if anyone has found a way to help this process along--by supplying some formi

naked chickens

2003-02-10 Thread flylo
Deborah, I have some photos of those chickens, the ugliest things I've ever seen! BRIGHT pink skin, usual red comb and wattles, plain scary-looking. They also don't look like they'd have much meat on them, but I know with our good ol Yankee Know How, we'll splice some hog or turkey genes into

mean spirited

2003-02-10 Thread Deborah Byron
Speaking of citizen groups vs. the poultry industry, a group here (using out of state lawyers, I might add) is suing the big poultry producers regarding the public health hazard caused by arsenic--which enters the soil via chicken litter spread on fields and then becomes airborne in dust. There ha

Re: Crystaline Structure in Water

2003-02-10 Thread B&P Bell
G'day: There is a book out, Spritual Gardening at Its Best, by Don Elwood, His website is www.liteweb/hol/.  His company is Hands of Light Seeds.  There are several books and publications ( and seeds)  available.  I bought several publications and boosk a few years ago when I started lecturing

Re: BD and steam

2003-02-10 Thread Merla Barberie
Roger, I have looked into this on the net and only found very large equipment. If you find small units for individuals to use, I would be interested in hearing about them. Aren't they on a par with flame weeding? Merla Roger Pye wrote: > Ross McDonald wrote: > > > As a new convert to to the BD

Oregon BD

2003-02-10 Thread Dave Robison
In response to the lot, 'Introduction to Biodynamics' is posted at www.oregonbd.org Select the "Introductory Class" from the menu to left. Best to go thru the menu so you have all the frames. There are download buttons now at the ends of each chapter. These deliver a .doc file so you don't have to

mean spirited

2003-02-10 Thread flylo
Sorry gang, I suppose I (hopefully for a brief moment) had become one of the people I was railing about. Deborah, yes I understand where you're coming from now. If one were to fly over my county, they'd think small cities have sprung up out of nowhere, so many poultry houses abound. There is a

Intro class

2003-02-10 Thread Dave Robison
It's an option off http://oregonbd.org/class Be careful when you download it. I suggest you use Microsoft Internet Explorer even if normally you use another browser (such as Netscape, like I do) because MIE will keep the images in their right places after you save the files, and there are a lot o

FW: [globalnews] Utilities Push for Huge Fee Increases On SolarEnergy Users in California

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: FW: [globalnews] Utilities Push for Huge Fee Increases On Solar Energy Users in California http://www.solarexpert.com/grid-tie/Action-Alert.html Action Alert: Utilities Push for Huge Fee Increases On Solar Energy Users in California What's at stake: In the next 30 days, the Californ

Re: bitter tonight

2003-02-10 Thread Tony Nelson-Smith
Deborah and Martha - Two pence worth, largely irrelevant. The genetics department at Swansea University, where I used to teach marine biology, kept Tilapia for breeding experiments. They're not enormous fish (around half to two-thirds the size of farmed trout at most) and seemed quite happy in

delist

2003-02-10 Thread Hondle, Roberta
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Re: bitter tonight

2003-02-10 Thread Deborah Byron
Martha--I think you and I live in the same general region of the country so you probably know that here in the Ozark bioregion huge confined animal operations are the norm (hogs and poultry). There used to be trout farms but those have gone by the wayside with the decline in water quality caused b

Re: CT=BDcompost,preps+Alaska humus, forest humus & kelp

2003-02-10 Thread Frank Teuton
Hi Merla, Thanks for your note. In fact, I am Frank L Teuton III, and my grandfather, Frank Sr, was the camellia man and my first gardening educator... We had a 15 foot high bush of 'Colonel Fiery' near our house in Maryland that my grandfather had planted, and he had many others on his own prope

OT:FW: [globalnews] Astrologer Predicts Fear Factor to Skyrocket;Principled Spiritualized NonViolent Civil Disobedience Needed

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: OT:FW: [globalnews] Astrologer Predicts Fear Factor to Skyrocket; Principled Spiritualized NonViolent Civil Disobedience Needed Stariq.com Aquarium Age By Ralfee Finn For the  Week of February 7, 2003 The  Aquarium Age is a report on the general astrological patterns of the coming we

OT:FW: [globalnews] Hyde Park demonstration is expected to drawthe biggest crowds since VE Day

2003-02-10 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: OT:FW: [globalnews] Hyde Park demonstration is expected to draw the biggest crowds since VE Day Independent.co.uk Hyde Park demonstration is expected to draw the biggest crowds since VE Day By Andrew Buncombe in Washington and Andy McSmith 09 February 2003 The Rev Jesse Jackson, w

Re: ants in the vanilla

2003-02-10 Thread Henry Karczynski
I made a mixture of black pepper and garlic in vegetable oil and applied some to the pre-flower buds.  The ants that became exposed to the mixture died almost immediately, something that surprised me.  However the mixture was too concentrated and damaged the buds that had been applied.  I am ap

Re: BD and steam

2003-02-10 Thread Roger Pye
Ross McDonald wrote: As a new convert to to the BD practice can anyone advise if steam is used and method of application in managing weeds in the vineyard. We are primarily using a modified cutoff plough and then reforming the soil beneath the vines - I dont like doing this as the soil is turn

BD and steam

2003-02-10 Thread Ross McDonald
As a new convert to to the BD practice can anyone advise if steam is used and method of application in managing weeds in the vineyard. We are primarily using a modified cutoff plough and then reforming the soil beneath the vines - I dont like doing this as the soil is turned over too often a