Thanks for the "Radionics-Voodoo..." thread & GMO bits of info

Hi all, I really enjoyed the "Radionics, Voodoo, Holy Cards and Third-class relics" thread. Graeme, Eric, Gil, Garuda, James, Roger, Lloyd, Markess, Peter Michael, Rex (hope I haven't left anyone out.). I'll have to reread this a lot more to understand the whole subject. I'm sure glad this has

Re: BD Down under

James, Hugh, Lloyd, et al., I am interested in learning this route and I'm highly motivated. The trouble is that anything mathematical, mechanical or in the realm of physics is hard for me to understand. I am better at languages, art and literature...alas, but I am persistent and like to do rese

Re: BD in Hawai'i

Hi Tony, I just sent some valerian flowers to Ellen Sugawara, HC 01, Box 900, Kaurakakai, HI 95748.  She grows taro and ginger Bio-Dynamically.  She's tried to get valerian flowers there, but the climate isn't right for flowering, it seems.  She was outgoing and knowledgeable. Best, Merla Ramble

Re: BD Down under

James, it took us hours and hours to spray our tansy and knapweed D-8 solution six times (two different weeks when the moon was in a fire sign). We came home at midnight twice. I think radionics is the answer for large acreages. I'm still trying to understand how to potentize 4 gallons of D-7 pe

Re: Can error be turned to advantage?

Your palaver today really interests me. You're right, Roger, I couldn't and wouldn't forward your messages today to the Weed Supervisor or the University of Idaho researchers. They're not ready for it. You're absolutely right in just doing it. I am hosting a Biological Control for Knapweed Work

Water has memory...

Icy claim that water has memory 19:00 11 June 03 Lionel Milgrom Claims do not come much more controversial than the idea that water might retain a memory of substances once dissolved in it. The notion is central to homeopathy, which treats patients with samples so dilute they are unlikely to

Farmer's Right to Save Seed Attacked from GRAIN

Subject: [NEW from GRAIN] Farmers' privilege under attack Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 09:57:55 +0200 From: "GRAIN - Information" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: NEW from GRAIN ___ TITLE: Farmers' privilege

Cabbage Maggots!!

Somehow, we managed to get some serious pesky critters in our broccoli beds. We hardly ever have anything like this and it took us awhile to catch on what was happening... They are: Cabbage Maggot, Diptera: Anthomyiidae, Delia radicum (L.). They're just starting and we dug up all we could find a

Re: Preps 500 and 501 Effects as they relate to Sequential Spraying

I just read Hugh Lovell's words on "Prep 500 and 501 effects". It was way over my head since I can only understand what is going on with the plants on a intuitive basis. I want to do a sequential spraying on 3 1/2 acres of our land, the part that is not wooded, but fenced and in agricultural usag

Fees for using public lands mishandled

FEES FOR RECREATION ON PUBLIC LANDS - No More or Forevermore? The future of public access to public lands will probably be decided within the next seven weeks. Your help is needed. Please call or write your Congressmen & Senators. We need to keep the heat on Fee Demo as never before. It would al

Pepper Spraying Journal

Well, it was the first day of the moon in Aries yesterday and I was as ready as I would ever be. It was also the day my husband decided to launch his new sailboat in the lake, the one he has been building for six months and it was the day to vote in the Library Election--the levy lost last time th

Landgrant University Wheat Breeder Holds Fast to Keeping BreedingPublic

Washington State wheat breeder won't sow Clearfield seed, Borlaug warns against privatization of public breeding by Robert Schubert CropChoice editor (May 19, 2003 -- CropChoice news) -- News of the demise of funding for a crop breeding program at Washington State University may have been greatl

Aeration of compost piles

Hi folks, I just found a website where they blow air into their compost piles. I want to ask questions about compost piles. If you put sticks and cornstalks at the bottom of your pile and layer it soil, carbonous matter, manure (& bedding), and then add BD compost preps, is your pile aerated en

Québec Adopts Strict Pesticide Regs

=== P A N U P S Pesticide Action Network Updates Service === Québec Adopts Strict Pesticide Regulations March 24, 2003 On March 5, Québec's Environment Minister announced the province's adoption of a landmark Pesticid

The Last non-GMO wheat breeder at a Land Grant College

Folks - We've got a new squelch-play going on in our area, a place with a relentless old boy network. Steve Jones is the last wheat breeder in the country that is not contracted to Monsanto, et al. He has been holding out, and speaking out, and is determined to keep his varieties in t

Spring

Hi folks, Rocky Mountain spring here--alternating snow and sun. Last night I looked out on stars and planets in a clear sky. Today it's solid cloud cover in the 40s and 32 at night. During a warm spell, we planted some Oregon Giant snow peas and put BD compost on the asparagus. We're working o

Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine finally made it to Sandpoint. Everybody I know, many Quakers and Green Party people, and a bunch of high schoolers were there. It felt like home. I guess Michael Moore said it all. What can I do besides what I am doing now? The Spokesperson and Secretary of the Green Par

Re: EXODUS

Barry, As much as I have enjoyed sharing political views with people on this list, I have found that I need respit. I particularly enjoyed reading Charles Chaplin's biography and seeing videos of his films--anything creative--but he was barred from returning to the U.S. because he made "The Great

Earth needs...TLC

Hi all, I am so affected by what is happening in the wider world and in my smaller world. I wrote a note to the Security Council. I guess we all wrote those notes. It's too bad that our country is in such a mess in every way. I get so angry, it's blowing my head even more. I've had a couple o

Resignation in Greece

Thanks for the info, Roger. Sorry, folks, Bob Thorson is right. I also got this back from my source: Subject: Career diplomat resigns in protest Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 15:52:44 -0700 Merla - see NY Times article below.T Miller is the Ambassador , Kiesling was

Re: Letter of Resignation from U.S. Ambassador to Greece

Bob, Thanks for catching this. I really don't know first hand the background. My source is usually very good. I sent an email to her asking her to check it's veracity with a copy of your post. I will publish her answer when I get it. Merla Bob Thorson wrote: > The US ambassador to Greece is

Letter of Resignation from U.S. Ambassador to Greece

US Ambassador to Greece resigns in protest over US administration' current actions in mideast. http://truthout.org/docs_03/030103A.shtml U.S. Diplomat John Brady Kiesling Letter of Resignation, to: Secretary of State Colin L. Powell ATHENS | Thursday 27 February 2003 Dear Mr. Secretary: I am w

CSP and EQIP-Please comment and send to other interested persons

ward it to you if you request it. Please take the time to understand this and to make comments about both of the programs. The CSP action notice is from the Land Stewardship Project and the EQIP action notice is from Western Sustainable Agriculture Working Group . Thanks so much, Merla Barber

EQIP Action Letter from WesternSAWG

Hi all, I just went on and found a sample letter to write for EQIP which I am copying on this post. * * * * * URGENT! ? ONLY 30 DAYS TO SEND IN PUBLIC COMMENT TO SAVE THE INTEGRITY OF THE EQIP PROGRAM BUSH OFFERS WEAK PROPOSED RULE FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY INCENTIVES PROGRAM (EQIP) M

Conservation Money for Working Farms

Hi all, When I went to the Western Sustainable Ag Working Group conference a few weeks ago, they had Mark Schultz of the Land Stewardship Project there talking about Farm Bill programs with money for small and mid-sized working farms for conservation programs called EQIP and CSP. You may already

Thanks to Bob and Roger

As soon as a sent my last post I realized I had left out Bob and Roger, and probably other people too. It's hard to thank everybody when so many people have given of their experience. Best, Merla

Re: Organizing the Work on the Weed Project

To Tony, Gil, Steve D., Frank, Lloyd & Allan (from past posts) and others, Thank you for all your help with conceptualizing for our road IPM project. I'm going to call Brad, the Weed Supervisor, today and have a talk about this year's work. The help you have given me is invaluable. I have gathe

Re: Violets as Soil Indicators

I was walking in our garden yesterday. It was 42ºF outside and sunny. Two of the fall lettuce beds under row cover were uncovered (of the snow) and the lettuce was all alive. We had a mild winter. I walked through the snow to the other side of the garden which is much colder, but the west side o

Re: Ramial Wood Chips, Paramagnetic Rock and Organizing the Work on the Weed Project

Steve, you're so nice to spend the time to do this. I will ponder. I can't imagine finding enough ramial wood chips in this land of fir, larch, pine, cedar & hemlock. They cut the softwood and leave the hardwood--birch, alder, cottonwood and others. I just wanted to establish the benefits of ha

Re: Peace Seeds & cannibals

I'm wondering if anyone feeds their chickens bought chicken feed and if so what. I saw a beautiful flock of mixed breeds which I couldn't identify when I was in Moscow, Idaho, staying at a farm which markets on the Farmers Market and at the Coop. They have to get their certified organic feed from

Re: Other considertions on Flaming

Thanks for your thoughtful article from your experience. It's helpful. Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here are some of my observations and other comments on flaming: > > The flame engineering pull behind flamers are finicky machines. The > Suburban Propane dealer in Sonoma County has not sold

Sen. Craig's Answer

arian regime such as Iraq or North Korea, not here in the United States of America. Best wishes, Merla Barberie Certified Organic Grower 1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Letter to Senator Larry Craig re the Organic Rule

ct this kind of action from a totalitarian regime such as Iraq or North Korea, not here in the United States of America. Best wishes, Merla Barberie Certified Organic Grower 1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge Sandpoint, Idaho 83864

Re: Weakening of Organic Standard Is Considered

Please express your opinion about the importance of maintaining the integrity of the Organic Rule to: Richard Mathews USDA-AMS-TMP-NOP Room 4008-5 14th and Independence Ave, SW Washington, DC 2022250-0020 <[EMAIL PROTECTED] and to your U.S. Senators and Congressmen who allowed this travesty to p

Ramial Wood Chips & a Steam Weeder

If you think of wood chip mulch on trees and vines, combined with steam for the emerging weeds, which ultimately "poke through" the mulch, you have a very powerful combination. You get the moisture conserving and weed-controlling mulch benefits, you provide the food and shelter benefits for soil

Compost Tea use with veggies on the Farmers' Market

We had really nice fall broccoli in our garden with the use of compost tea made from our BD compost, both in 5 gallon buckets for a couple of weeks without aeration with an aquarium aerator for 24 hours and a tsp. of molasses added. It's especially valuable to us because since we only get 1/2 gal/

Re: BD and steam

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

Re: Crystaline Structure in Water

A long time ago, I went to a talk given by a white man who was the designated spokesman for the Hopis to the outside world who spoke about growing Hopi blue corn. They taught him to sing to his corn every morning. They plant corn very deep in alluvial intermittent creek bottoms in Arizona. Th

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

g, > which may explain my special pique with him...;-) > > Basically Merla, my advice is to go slowly, make sure what you are doing is > safe and well founded, and look for the reasons underlying different > opinions being offered to you. If at all possible look for data that has

Who's Watching the USDA's Organic "Henhouse"?

Today I got the latest copy of the Organic Farming Research Foundation's Information Bulletin. Looks like Allan's appraisal of the value of Organic Certification could become a reality if we all don't comment to Mr. Mathews (at the bottom of this email) just like we did on the Organic Rule. I don

Farm Bill money available for conservation

One thing I learned at the Western SAWG meeting was that they worked their little tails off to get the Conservation money in the Farm Bill. It was passed by the Democratically controlled Congress. Now the Republican Congress is trying not to fund it. There is a comment period now which everyone c

Compost Tea Maker wasRe: CT=BDcompost,preps+Alaska humus, forest humus & kelp

It's a new model of small compost tea maker by Bob Norsen from Alaska. He doesn't have a web site, but his large model 30-500 gallons is recommended by The Soil Food Web and the results of their testing is under "Bob's Brews" on their Compost Tea list/serve page on , but you have to be a member an

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

first off, Merla - Are you really applying for organic certification I've been certified organic for as many years as Idaho has had an organic certification process. Anyone on the market here who was serious, joined at the beginning. Just remember how conservative this state is even compared

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

Experienced BD folks, This is my year for my own BC & 500 AND for 24 hr aerobic compost tea. Exactly in what proportion do you combine them? Do you stir the 500 and then put in in the CT for 24 hrs? Do you put it on separately in the ritual way? Allan's post questioned whether CT is needed if y

Thanks

Thursday: Thanks to prkerjake, moen creek and Gil for observations about the microcosm mirroring the macrocosm. Your gentle understanding helped me to forgive myself for my harsh reaction, yet recognize where it came from and deal with the cause in an effective, but gentle way with good result.

Re: not cabin fever!

Funny how things happen unexpectedly that change your life. Just move on fast and get another job if you need it or launch an interest of your own. I recommend a book, The Energy of Money, to get you pointed in the right direction. I've lent the book and don't have the author's name. She's a the

Re: NYT Article/Homemade Compost tea Machine

Thanks, Perry, but I don't have Excel. My "Microsoft Word 98" software for my MAC was a gift from a friend and he did not give me the whole office array. I probably don't know how to understand a biological assay anyway. What you've already told me is enough to start on. Lloyd has told me a lot

NYT Article

I've lost Sharon Carson and now Jane Sherry, two really fine women on our list. Now, we'll all be flexible, shut up from our inanities and lurk while you get your chance to be brilliant. Women also can develop a deep interest in a subject and follow it. Often when we do not have the scientific or

Re: NYT Article

Jane, I would like to subscribe to your husband's service, but I fear getting spam if I go on a list from NYC. Right now, I get no spam at all. Could you give me the URL? Merla Jane Sherry wrote: > By the way, it's nice to know folks are reading some of this stuff, which > mostly comes by way

Re: Pesticide Residues: Organic vs. Conventional - The Latest

Hi folks,  Thought you'd all be interested... Merla This is the text of a speech delivered by Chuck Benbrook  at the 2003 Eco-Farm Conference at Asilomar, CA, on Jan. 24.   It contains a summary of research, some of which is very recent, on levels of pesticide residues in foods and shows that e

Re: BD501 as a Weed Control

James and Roger, Please post this in detail. I would like to try pepper+501 here on our road trials. Thank you. Merla Roger Pye wrote: > James Hedley wrote: > > >Roger may claim ownership of the Love grass technique but he cannot claim > >ownership of my title of "the little wizard". Good eve

Nielson proposes deal to Americans on GMOs

I couldn't resist posting this. Nielson's deal is priceless. "Later this month, the Commission will host a conference to discuss the use of biotechnology in developing countries." This will be a very important discussion. Merla EU's Nielson blasts US "lies" in GM food row EU: January 22, 2003

Re: What do we have to LOSE/GAIN Re: LURKING was Re: Personal Security / Insecurity

Jane, I have had it with your BD piety. If you had half of the wisdom you you think you have, you would see that not everybody involved in social change is running around as an activist waving signs and telling people they should use preps and become enlightened. Change happens on may levels, and

Dr. Doug Rokke

I received a tape of Dr. Doug Rokke speaking about his experiences in the Gulf War. It is unspeakably shocking. I put his name and "depleted uranium munitions" into Goggle and got a lot of confirming documents. He says there are 1-2,000 of such munitions ready to be deployed in the 2003 Iraq War

Ronnigers Potato Farm

Hi all, Ronnigers (hard g not j) Farm is located in Boundary County, the northernmost county in the Idaho Panhandle. It's beautiful big place with handmade log buildings. Last year we went up there and found no one around, but the store had a sign on it to come in and help ourselves with a old c

Re: Greg Willis: Fwd: Fixing Steiner Agriculture #2 The Power Of Myth

All right, Greg and Steve and Hugh L. et al., How do you prepare horn clay? What kind of clay do you use? How to you spray it? Etc, etc, etc,! Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/12/03 10:58:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << JPI > > >refuse to recognize it or use it.

Re: GREG WILLIS: FWD Fixing Steiner Agriculture: a footnote

Steve, Do you spray with snow on the ground? Merla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 1/12/03 10:57:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > << We are now entering the wintertime crystallization period which > extends from January 15 to February 15. Steiner discusses this on > page 30. >

Re: Kirschenmann speech

Gentlemen: What "What is Sound Science?" is about is not GMOs or even agriculture specifically, but what is the nature of scientific inquiry. It's refuting one person calling another person's basic body of knowledge that he brings with him and integrates new knowledge into--junk science. It's a

Chaplin, GMO Wheat and Preservation of Special Places

We went to a booksale put on by Bonner General Hospital and bought a lot of old books cheap. One of these was My Autobiography, Charles Chaplin. It was a real moving story. Among many other aspects of his life, he was a British citizen who lived in America and who produced The Great Dictator i

Re: Personal Security vs National Security

Yes, please record the early archives and made them available if you expunge them. The whole climate in our beloved country is distressing. I just got a post on CAFTA, an extension of NAFTA to Central America. They were keeping the terms of the treaty secret so that NGOs couldn't protest. Democ

Re: Epiphany

Last night started to think about the prayer of St. Francis of Assisi and looked it up in its entirety since I could only remember fragments of it. Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there

Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat

Kara and Hugh and Allan, There are a lot of people around the globe who have a different vision than the "green revolution," and see it for what it is. The meeting at Porto Allegre was one. The strong movement in India too. That is why I brought up the great work that is going on in teaching se

Re: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat

Hi Bob, The Environmental Committee of the Northern Panhandle Greens is working on a program on recent developments with GMOs. We are trying to inform ourselves. We have the videos "Not for Sale." about the patenting of life and "Heartbreak in the Heartland," which I haven't seen yet which is Per

Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE Wheat

Hi all, I got the following notice from Jill Davies. She is a local person from Montana who speaks in this area of the country and shares information on a "Greens" list. I sure do hate to see this. Merla Subject: Monsanto submitted its petition for comm. of GE wheat Date:

Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug

http://santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2144&dept_id=385202&newsid=6568246&PAG=461&rfi=9 Water is Becoming a Dangerous Drug By Melissa Knopper Birth control pills, estrogen replacement drugs, ibuprofen, bug spray, sunscreen, mouthwash and antibacterial soap: all of these prod

OFF:Does legal status of corporations as persons give them the right to lie?

Hi All, I just got this from Mark Ritchie at WTO Watch and it's so good and to the point of many of the problems in the US that I am copying it and sending it. Merla * * * * * * Now Corporations Claim The "Right To Lie" by Thom Hartmann published on Wednesday, January 1, 2003 by CommonDr

Re: more buggy questions

We always have two kinds of small bark beetles in the winter--longish brown creatures with beautiful markings. They don't eat in their adult phase. I don't know their life cycle. They walk and fly around the loft of our cabin. They are under the metal roof and must come in through small cracks

Re: Three Kings Prep

Allan and Woody, I didn't express myself well in the previous post. I have used BD compost for many years, and BC and 500 sprayed every year on the vegetable garden. I have always used compost, BC and 500, but only used 501 once last year in a small area (This is such an arid place especially du

Three Kings Prep

I have sprayed 501 once and used 508 a couple of times in the past year, but never done sequential spraying of all the preps. Should I wait until next year to do the Three Kings spraying? Best, Merla

Re: Jet Stream

Sorry to be so obtuse, but who is "SS"? Merla Moen Creek wrote: > > > Hi Mark > Maybe the boys in Alaska have been playing with > their new toy?? > Cheers > Lloyd Charles > > Hey Lloyd, > > > Could be huh. > > Treaties are broken & all bets are off but SS's. > F

Re: Organic Seed Catalogs and Hellp for organic farmers in developing countries

available from other seed banks. In Oz we also have our local seed banks, as > well as drawing on the National one at Seedsavers. > > Check them at :- www.seedsavers.net > > Gil > > Merla Barberie wrote: > > > When I read the email that Cornell University and USA

Organic Seed Catalogs and Hellp for organic farmers in developing countries

When I read the email that Cornell University and USAID are doing a 5 year project to promote GMO seeds in the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh, India and Africa, I was abashed. In thinking about this, I wanted to do something. Then I got Nathan's new Turtle Seed Catalog from Camphill. It was

Earth at Night

Greetings All, I find it very appropriate send my BEST CHRISTMAS WISHES to everyone on this list with the picture you will find on the URL below. Be sure to scroll back and forth and up and down as far as you can to see everything.

Re: A strange visit/trying to share

Thanks, Hugh, You and I know this, but Randy has 50 acres of trees that he is feeding with $9000 worth of slow release chemical fertilizer which he says is the best he's ever had. How can I tell him that it is no good. It's just the ponderosa pines that aren't happy and another variety that w

Re: Monsanto in financial trouble

There are many good posts today that gives a glimmer of hope. Enclosed are two of them. Buck up, Allan! Seeds of conflict Financial Times Published: December 18 2002 4:00 | Last Updated: December 18 2002 4:00 4db81a0.jpg US patience with the European Union's rejection of genetically modified f

Re: Dormant Oil and Lime Sulfur vs. CT and Pfeiffer's clay/manure mixture

venates them within two years > (Forest trees appear not to respond in the same way, I found) Perhaps > hazel, beech and similar trees may do so." > > Woody > Aurora Farm. the only > unsubsidized, family-run seed farm > in North America offering garden seeds > grown using R

Dormant Oil and Lime Sulfur vs. CT and Pfeiffer's clay/manure mixture

I am trying to make our place more Bio-Dynamic and better in every way that I can. I could just ask the above question, but it's more fun to tell it as a story... My husband doesn't believe in Bio-Dynamics, but he has given in a lot over the years and I try to involve him in every way I can. He

[Fwd: Need GMO video for program for Northern Panhandle Greens]

ry personally. I am >told that the Sierra Club has made such a video and that you will send >it to me free. > >If this is still the case, please send to > >Merla Barberie >1251 Rolling Thunder Ridge >Sandpoint, Idaho 83864 > >Thank you so much, > >Merla --- End Message ---

Want video of Percy Schmeiser and the beast known as "Monsanto"

I tried to find a video of Percy Schmeiser giving a talk about this. There must be a video. You don't really get the urgency of it all until you hear his story from his own heart. The Environmental Committee of the Northern Panhandle Green Party in Sandpoint is going to put on a program about gene

Re: Percy Schmeiser and the beast known as "Monsanto"

Yes, Allan, I heard Percy Schmeiser speak at the Global Justice Action Summit in Missoula, MT, this summer. It's very important that everyone understand that seed contamination by a patented seed results in the corporation that holds the patent owning your whole crop and in the case of canola and

Re: Perfect Orchard

Lloyd Charles wrote: . . . > If you have low calcium soil, Lime is needed to restore the > CEC balance and you will need a carbon source to hold and activate it. and later he wrote to Gil who had said, "Calcium will come from the application

Re: Other than Jeavons?

Rose, My first gardening book in 1979 was How to Grow More Vegetables on Less Land Than You Can Imagine by Jean Jeavons, and I've always used French intensive beds since then. Also first published in 1979 was a wonderful Book Culture and Horticulture by Wolf Storl which is much deeper and require

Re:Visit/trying to share

in the information gathering stage, I guess. I have all sorts of unpleasant work like cleaning and ordering that haunts me. Best, Merla Roger Pye wrote: > Merla Barberie wrote: > > > Your nemesis, Randy, seem to exemplify many good, as well as > > misguided, qualities.

Re: A strange visit/trying to share

Your nemesis, Randy, seem to exemplify many good, as well as misguided, qualities. His land is in his family and farming is in his blood. He is open enough to share with you what he is doing and he really believes in it, works hard, makes it pay, pays his bills thereby, etc. He uses a spider and

A strange visit

This afternoon Herb and I visited my nemesis, Randy's, 20 year old tree farm. I can't sleep. It is haunting me. He has 50 acres of ornamental trees--in exact spacing drawn in squares with $9,000 worth of slow release chemical fertilizer around the edge of the squares. No weeds in sight, complet

Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project II

This came from WTO Watch. It is insidious what is being done to subject the whole world. The sponsors for this one are Cornell University and USAID and they're doing it in The Philippines. It shocks me that this campaign to contaminate local seed stocks with patented seed is being carried on by a

Re: 2002 500

Hi Steve, You said "urn." Do you mean an amphora that's rounded on the bottom but is a vase or is this really an egg-shaped vessel and the lid is just the top of the egg? Is yours out of Cone 06 Terra Cotta? I have a lot of red clay at Cone 6. It wouldn't be as porous. You want it unglazed an

Re: Droughts and rainmaking change to "Dreaming of Preps/Compost/Refractometer/Cow/Chickens"

Try <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or go to Yahoo.com and choose "groups," then join--choose a Yahoo ID and get a password. . There's an archive on the Compost Tea page. It's by individual email, not by Digest #s. Digest 121 is November 29. Hope this helps. Merla zoran wrote: > Dear Merla, > > Where

Re: Droughts and rainmaking change to "Dreaming of Preps/Compost/Refractometer/Cow/Chickens"

I got my library to buy A Practical Guide to Vibrational Medicine by Richard Gerber that someone recommended a millennium ago. The chapter on Radionics was actually a history of inventors and practitioners. It helped a lot and some of it was hard for me to understand and then it was explained tha

Re: Asking for Your Considerations

Allan, I just got your email and started visualizing your left foot. I wanted to add that two years ago, I tried to break up a growling fight between my two unfixed Golden Retriever males over my female who was just starting to go into heat. I didn't realize that she was there yet. I put my rig

Re: OT:FW: Watching democracy die (and be reborn?)

Take heart, three counties in Idaho went Democratic this past election, not my own, I'm sorry to say. The previous election was a clean sweep for the Republicans. Of course, that didn't win any representation, but it surely did help my feelings. We also have a Green Party, but it's green as in g

Re: Help with burying horn

Christy, It really rained heavily all night last night and I was thinking that it was a good thing I sealed that horn with bentonite. Would it have filled up with water and would that have been all right? Last week, Green and I dug an oval hole in our tallest French intensive bed which is in one

Re: Help with burying horn

Christy, We did the BC too last week. Finally got some manure locally. We dug a hole in one of our French intensive broccoli beds that was high and put 10 fire bricks (bigger than regular bricks) in an oval only 3 levels high. We potentized the manure with local basalt and eggshells I ground up

Re: Thanks

Liz, Your course program sounds wonderful. What is name of it and where are you taking it? What all have you done? Best, Merla Liz Davis wrote: > Hi all > > Have finally lifted my head from finals and presentations. How I went is > still unsure, the soils paper was 3 hours and no easy task,

Re: Search for results of Elaine's testing of bd preps

> Hi Frank, Thanks for the complete answers to my questions. I went through the SFI Compost Digest file to try and summarize the controversy for my state organic department head who had never heard of it before. You have studied this a lot and you have a definite opinion about it. I want to answ

Re: VIDEO/DISCUSSION Groups was Re: Search for results of Elaine'stesting of bd preps

ALLAN, I would also like to have the videos either to try and get the Farmer's Market to sponsor a video/discussion group for anyone who is interested or sponsor it myself at the Quaker Meeting House. I will be glad to make my copy of NOT FOR SALE available to you. I think the subject of the pa

Re: Search for results of Elaine's testing of bd preps

Finally, Hugh, let me also say that because the amounts of compost needed to produce compost tea are ridiculously small, compared to normal field application rates, it is more reasonable to seek out the best quality ingredients, use the best practices possible aiming for the highest quality of comp

Re: Search for results of Elaine's testing of bd preps

D & S Chamberlain wrote: Hugh: I think that Frank has a valid point. Obviously poorly made compost tea can contain E.coli, the question is how do we stop it happening? Perceptions are everything, if it can be traced that someone got ill from compost tea then there are legions of highly paid peopl

Help with burying horn

Speaking of manure(Frank, you are very scary to a neophyte like me, since I have no money to test my compost or my tea)...I am hoping that I have found my source for BC locally and will find out tomorrow if I can collect some cowpies off the pasture of two cows owned by the lady who started the

Re: G.M.O. transfers

Hi Peter, Put "Percy Schmeiser" into your search engine. He has a website where he tells how Monsanto hounded him when his canola crop in Saskatchewan was contaminated with Roundup Ready Canola and he had never planted GMO seeds or used roundup. They sent in retired Royal Mounted Police to intim

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