Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-11 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Steve - I don't want to nit-pick, but I wonder how the vortices in my flowform cascade are not peripheral ? The flowforms are thin plastic shells and, inside each one, the liquid flows around the outer edge in twin vortices before joining in chaotic discharge into the next flowform beneath. That

Stirring Preps -- Was: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-10 Thread Wayne and Sharon McEachern
In preparing any preps for application, we use our intuitive tools to determine how long a prep needs to be stirred. In our case, we are currently only stirring for a garden and need one 5 gallon bucket of solution. As always, we set up a coning (intuitive connection) with the Overlighting Deva

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-09 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 5/9/02 12:37:43 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << As I've mentioned before, I circulate the prep solution around the flowform cascade with a hand-operated diaphragm pump (small-boat bilge-pump) and I treat it as a sort of t'ai-chi exercise, attempting to concentrate my ener

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-07 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Allan - I have 14 tiers, as used at Emerson College. I think I remember their telling me that they ran preps for 10 mins - but, also, I calculated that 10 mins' circulation through them equals as many vortices and reversals (chaos) as I'd get in an hour's hand-stirring.Tony N-S.

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-06 Thread Allan Balliett
>Instead of stirring, I run water plus prep (for spraying or compost heap, >not to make tea) through a cascade of flowforms for about 10 mins. Do I win >both ways or get the booby prize ? Tony N-S. How did you arrive at 10 minutes, Tony. Not saying I'm right, of course, but I'v

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-06 Thread Anthony Nelson-Smith
Instead of stirring, I run water plus prep (for spraying or compost heap, not to make tea) through a cascade of flowforms for about 10 mins. Do I win both ways or get the booby prize ? Tony N-S.

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-06 Thread SBruno75
There is a big difference between the Steiner remedies and compost tea. The truth is, that I have restored our farm with cold well or rain water. I can count on one hand how many times I have used warm water. Rudy sez that you may want to use warm water, not mandatory, for those who plung t

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-05 Thread Allan Balliett
> > Steve and all-- I see on page 68 of her Gardening for >Life book that Maria Thun recommends against using >"dynamized water" that has been through the flow forms >for use in mixing the preparations. Just guessing, I'd assume that dynamized water had already 'imprinted' with someting else ju

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-05 Thread Allan Balliett
Friends - My recollection is that Steiner recommends WARM WATER for stirring the preps. This has always been a curiosity to me, a guy who likes to dip his water from the rainbarrel. The folks at Earthworks, the folks whom, I understand, are hitting the highest numbers for ALL THE MICROBES in

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-05 Thread SBruno75
In a message dated 5/5/02 9:01:49 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: << Steve and all-- I see on page 68 of her Gardening for Life book that Maria Thun recommends against using "dynamized water" that has been through the flow forms for use in mixing the preparations. >> I have been using well wat

Re: Flow forms and compost tea

2002-05-05 Thread Dorothy O'Brien
Steve and all-- I see on page 68 of her Gardening for Life book that Maria Thun recommends against using "dynamized water" that has been through the flow forms for use in mixing the preparations. Do you know why she recommended this? Does this apply to making compost tea? Is the point of th

Flow Forms and Compost Tea (from SFW)

2002-04-13 Thread bdnow
(From Elaine Ingham's monthly newsletter. You can get the current edition or subscribe at http://www.soilfoodweb.com Frankly, I find this report confusing, but the first sentence is pretty encouraging! -Allan) 1. BIODYNAMICS Flow-Forms - do they make good tea? They sure do! No surprise to