Re: keeping focussed - yeah and Aye Hamish

2003-06-26 Thread Resonant Info
Yes let's keep focussed on the challenges we all face in different landscapes and different cultures. bdnow is a wonderful tool for sharing with and supporting each other in our Biodynamic work and striving. Yes Biodynamics is growing in Australia. We have a number of Biodynamic associations arou

Re: water consumption

2003-06-26 Thread D & S Chamberlain
Hamish: I don't have them at hand but I believe that the BD / Conventional study done in Victoria back in the early 90s compared irrigation watering and I seem to remember a similar study in NZ. I'm fairly sure I read about both in "Newsleaf". Hope this helps. David C - Original Messag

Re: water consumption

2003-06-26 Thread Lloyd Charles
  - Original Message - From: Hamish Mackay To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2003 2:47 PM Subject: water consumption Can anyone give me some hard data on reduction of water requirements on Biodynamic land?   would be appreciated   aye

Re: Alex Podolinsky

2003-06-26 Thread Allan Balliett
Allan I'll do my best to tape the talk, but you may have to wait to hear it on our website? L&L Liz I hope you meant "LOL" -Allan ___ BDNow mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can unsubscribe or change your options at: http://lists.envirolink.org/mailman/l

Re: water consumption

2003-06-26 Thread Gil Robertson
On irrigated land in temperate Oz, the reduction should be of the order of five sixths to nine tenths. This includes the water holding capacity of the increased soil carbon and the reduction of use by the healthy plants. On otherwise traditional, irrigated, vineyards should only require one to

Re: Alex Podolinsky

2003-06-26 Thread Hugh Lovel
>Hi all > >Finally have heard word that Alex Podolinsky will be talking at the uni in >Orange on the first weekend of August. Unsure of the details but will post >these when confirmed. I'd be happy to put questions to him on behalf of >others. Keeping in mind what Hamish has written; I can't hel

Re: water consumption

2003-06-26 Thread Hugh Lovel
Hamish? Who is to measure these things? How could a BD farmer be trusted by outsiders to do it? Reduction of water requirements on my farm, the way I farm it, are HUGE, but I don't know how to accurately measure them as I have such variable weather and no data base of what it was prior to BD (a

Re: Fwd: Prep 500 and 501 effects

2003-06-26 Thread Hugh Lovel
Glen, I look forward eagerly to discussion with you as e-mail is entirely too inadequate. Hugh Hugh The main reference we need to refer to is the diagram in lec 8- pg 155 I think. >From what you have said below you have what RS is saying re Cosmic and Earthly nutrition streams in humans which

Re: C Timings

2003-06-26 Thread Eric Myren
No I have not read PrairyErth but it sounds intriguing. There are so many nuances new to life, so many billions of (for lack of a better word circuitry) and subtleties involved in mere movement, that they drive one to distraction. Oh yes paying attention is at a premium. It is unfortunate that so