Re: "Three-Up Tour" & compost tea brew

2003-03-09 Thread Rambler Flowers LTD
- Original Message - From: "Lloyd Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 2:24 PM > would use the brix meter on crop. > > Hi Lloyd I have been testing my brews for pH, ergs, brix and temp. As I spray in the evenings I have not done a leaf brix

Re: late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
but why not use the radionics to add some extra? I think Steve Storch is doing stuff like this now - maybe not radionically. I don't think that Steve is working radionically. As far as I know, Steve makes every effort to grow his crops within the realm of the living. As far as the chromas go, ye

Re: not so hidden agenda

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Bush is even cutting money out of care for the veterans of previous wars. I think the figure for cuts in Veterans hospitals is something like $250 million in this year alone. It's astounding how poorly the US treats its vets. of course, there is a long history of this, probably preceding the ho

not so hidden agenda

2003-03-09 Thread Leigh Hauter
If you re honest do you not see hidden agendas also among the "antiwarries". Yes, there is a hidden agenda (or rather, not very hidden because it is loudly proclaimed at all of the huge anti-war demonstrations). Instead of spending $200 plus billion on a grab for oil at the same time Bush is

Re: powerful statement

2003-03-09 Thread Keith N Legge
Forgive me but why would you prefer to love SH rather than Bush or Blair? All politicians have hidden agendas and we have to accept that, but people power can make a differnce so long as we aim at the right thing and in my opinion that should be the US making specific targets of SH and his cronies

Re: late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 3/9/03 5:20:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Hi Steve - great post - great holiday too I bet! > The green house is filling up with flats of newly seeded trays. This week I > will go in and spray with a bc tea laced with trace minerals. Can you tell us exactly how you make t

Re: "Three-Up Tour" & compost tea brew

2003-03-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
- Original Message - From: Rambler Flowers LTD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 11:13 AM Subject: Re: "Three-Up Tour" & compost tea brew > Hi Lloyd I have made a small 50Litre brewer made from an old stainless > steel LPG cylinder with a couple of

Re: late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
> >I dont expect the traditionalists on the list to go into raptures over this > >but I believe that we need to know if these things can work. It could be > >useful to use some radionically prepared prep water in any making of BD > >preps - > > Lloyd - What I'd like to see is chromas comparing cr

Rupert Sheldrake and THE NEW SCIENCE

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Rupert Sheldrake is a scientist who has been mapping the Universal Mind through simple, common sense expriments for the past 20 years. There are many ramifications of Sheldrake's work for biodynamic practitioners. Probably of most import aspect is his work with documenting the power of INTENTION.

Re: EXODUS

2003-03-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Allan Balliett wrote: Drown us in content and keep the archives interesting for the next guy. I can't imagine anyone getting this far in the archive..

Re: Subscriber exodus

2003-03-09 Thread Gil Robertson
Hi! Doug, Jane & Allan, Sorry, but I am with Doug, although not necessarily of the same political outlook. (I do not know what his interests are!) I have been ill for a few days and went to the farm to get away from things and was thus computer free. I came back to the normal stack of emails and ha

Re: "Three-Up Tour" & compost tea brew

2003-03-09 Thread Rambler Flowers LTD
Hi Lloyd I have made a small 50Litre brewer made from an old stainless steel LPG cylinder with a couple of air stones an air pump it cost me about $60. I have used worm compost worm leachate, comphrey tea with some equisetum and barrel compost,humic acid, hydroslated fish kelpand rockdust to produc

Re: powerful statement

2003-03-09 Thread Nelson Jacomel Junior
dearests: "How do you love an Osama bin Laden or a Saddam Hussein?..." Isnt the question also how do you love Bush and Blair? Do this in love. Let them know that there is a better place for them to be right now. Yes, encourage them to leave. Nelson. -

Re: Spring news

2003-03-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
>From: The Korrows Christy wrote > our latest revelation is that the small percentage of organic farms (8000 certified >farms in the US- 90,000 farms in Kentucky alone) is not going to turn around >agriculture, Its a shame more people in organic and biodynamic agriculture dont realise this - certi

RE: Help with Our Feathered Friends

2003-03-09 Thread John Wulff
Re: Feathered Friends Hi, This John from Australia and to preface my contribution I am very new to BD but at the same time very excited about the future and the potential it will bring to my enterprise. Have you tried making the appropriate peppers and applying them to your plants ? Our workshop

Re: TONY R: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread The Korrows
> Anyone good at outreach and consensus building would do well to ask > this group to be involved with this list rather than to stand away > from it, as though there is some advantage to them to not contribute > to making this the best discussion of biodynamic agriculture possible > at this time

Re: late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
I dont expect the traditionalists on the list to go into raptures over this but I believe that we need to know if these things can work. It could be useful to use some radionically prepared prep water in any making of BD preps - Lloyd - What I'd like to see is chromas comparing crops (carrots, for

Re: TONY R: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
was just expreesing an opinion why so many people are leaving this list because at times their is not enough interesting BD discussion .. I am trying to be pro active. Regards I think your opinion that 'so many people' are leaving the list is erroneous. I mentioned that two people had left bec

Re: Spring news

2003-03-09 Thread Bonnie York
On Sunday, March 9, 2003, at 02:44 PM, The Korrows wrote: percentage of organic farms (8000 certified farms in the US- 90,000 farms in Kentucky alone) is not going to turn around agriculture, its really going to take everyone raising a garden That's why in my garden design business, besides work

Re: Spring news

2003-03-09 Thread The Korrows
Title: Re: Spring news Hi Jane,   For a ground cover Chris suggests Strawberry clover, or New Zealand white clover. Add some calcium or rock phosphate since the clovers will really thrive in this. Plus violets might indicate some soil acidity.   I will try to keep up with the planting calendar

Re: TONY R: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread Rambler Flowers LTD
- Original Message - From: "Allan Balliett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 3:18 AM Subject: TONY R: Off topic posts > > Hey, Tony, help me here. I don't really understand your objection to > posts that you consider off topic . is it the bit weight

Re: Help with Our Feathered Friends

2003-03-09 Thread Rambler Flowers LTD
- Original Message - From: "Garuda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2003 8:20 AM Subject: Re: Help with Our Feathered Friends > Tony > > It does not seem specific, just any eating the crop that is sprayed. > G Glen I have had a major problem with bir

Re: late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
Hi Steve - great post - great holiday too I bet! > The green house is filling up with flats of newly seeded trays. This week I > will go in and spray with a bc tea laced with trace minerals. Can you tell us exactly how you make the trace element fortified BC - lack of attention to trace element n

Re: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread Lloyd Charles
Tony N-S wrote> > Can another Tony chip in? > Sorry, folks, but the conception which liberals in Britain have of U.S. > Americans, based largely on the loudest noises which reach us from across > the Atlantic, is of uncultured and unsympathetic rednecks prepared to blast > off the face of the Ear

Re: Help with Our Feathered Friends

2003-03-09 Thread Garuda
Tony It does not seem specific, just any eating the crop that is sprayed. G - Original Message - From: "Rambler Flowers LTD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Help with Our Feathered Friends > > - Original Message - >

Re: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread Tony Nelson-Smith
Hey, Tony, help me here. I don't really understand your objection to posts that you consider off topic. Can another Tony chip in? Sorry, folks, but the conception which liberals in Britain have of U.S. Americans, based largely on the loudest noises which reach us from across the Atlantic, is o

JAMES DEMEO and Orgonomic News

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
Information of Scientific Interest, from James DeMeo, Ph.D., and the Orgone Biophysical Research Laboratory, Greensprings Center, Ashland, Oregon. This is the infrequent version of our OBRL-Newsletter (~quarterly). March 2003 Five topical notices below: 1. Greensprings Interdisciplinary Seminars

TONY R: Off topic posts

2003-03-09 Thread Allan Balliett
ME Too It is still our busy season here down under and there are too many off subjects . I am close to leaving this list myself. Regards Tony R Hey, Tony, help me here. I don't really understand your objection to posts that you consider off topic. is it the bit weight of messages that you f

"my" nettles

2003-03-09 Thread flylo
Funny how we get possessive over something we actually have a use for. 2 years ago, I was griping about the nettles and now I consider them "my" earliest crop yet nothing has changed with the nettle itself, only my attitude toward it. They're anywhere from a foot tall to 18 inches in places. Whe

late winter farm

2003-03-09 Thread SBruno75
Sorry to say that I missed the big blizzard that crippled the northeast for a few days. The family trip included a drive from NY to FLA, some 1400 miles one way. We rode down south in front of the storm, leaving rain and snow in our wake. We boarded the SS Norway[exIle de France] and cruised

Re: Subscriber exodus

2003-03-09 Thread John Buckley
Somehow the threat of war, the responses here, the reactions, can perhaps be seen in a 'bio-dynamic' way.  As if the 'farm' has 'enjoyed' the invasion of something undesired.  If indeed the farm is to be viewed as a single organism, and it's health viewed as a single issue, then the divergen

Re: On topic: physical and ehteric bodies of plants

2003-03-09 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 3/8/03 2:06:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << So, the astral body that hovers around it does that belong to the plant? >> That I believe is under the jurisdiction on the plant "devas", a sort of group soul for the plants. If you look at Garuda's site he has great pictur

Re: Spring news

2003-03-09 Thread Jane Sherry
Title: Re: Spring news Thanks for posting this Christy! I went to your site to see what’s growing already and got a bit jealous, as I look out over our thick ice & snow cover. My winter frame weeks ago covered in ice & snow crushed a bit under the weight and I wonder whether anything still grows

Re: Subscriber exodus

2003-03-09 Thread Peter Michael Bacchus
its got me streached too!! Peter. - Original Message - From: "Rambler Flowers LTD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:40 AM Subject: Re: Subscriber exodus > > - Original Message - > From: "Garuda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTE