The Dallas/Austin Drive and RAIN Shabari and I flew in to Georgia from Australia and after less than a week of settling in at Bird’s Nest, planting gardens and preparing for the Weston A. Price convention we drove out to Dallas. The Weston A. Price convention was awesome with something like 1,500 attendees and…
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Biodynamic Tree Paste
Biodynamic Tree Paste© By Hugh Lovel In the US back in the 50s and 60s most highways were 2 lane rural affairs, and on our family’s summer vacations it was common to see orchards where one or another sort of lime wash was painted on the tree trunks up at least to the first limbs….
Replacing Soil Nutrients: A failure of Observation
Steve Solomon in Tasmania writes: Friends, I have put Tiedjens “Olena Farm” into the ag library at soilandhealth.org and am working on his “More Food From Soil Science” right now. It should be online in a few days. There is also a small collection of Tiedjens articles (and related items). If anyone has any other…
Soil Fertility: How to achieve; more discussion on Boron and other minerals; Biodynamic application
Re: boron application w/ prep. 500 or 501/Too much boron? Dear Michael, I need to thank you for correcting my mistake in treating borax the same as solubor. That was a mistake and I acknowledge it. I like your idea of lacing the horn preparations—particularly horn clay if you make that—with a…
How To Make Rain 2012
“A living organism has the astonishing gift of concentrating a ‘stream of order’ on itself, thus escaping the decay into atomic chaos.” –Erwin Schrödinger “It is the anomalies in nature that reveal the principles of life.” –Goethe Enriching the Atmosphere By Hugh Lovel My experience over the last 25 years shows…
Fruit Tree problems and Solutions
Dear Kym and Heinz, It all seems mysterious at first. I gather the two of you picked up on Glen Atkinson’s masterful grasp of the forces of the surrounding universe and how the various types influence our lives and environment. I’ve been knowing this bloke (Glen), who originally is from the Sunshine Coast of Queensland, for…
Quantum Agriculture 