Re: Copper Culture-Biodynamic farming

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On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Kathryn Marsh <kmarsh@iol.ie> wrote:

The parallels I was drawing are the biodynamic preparations such as
the manure in a cow's horn and such techniques as pipering and the
very detailed moon planting with its root, leaf and flower days for
sowing, transplanting and harvesting
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And BD preps and methods DO work. Over the years, I've done trials to
compare crops grown in soils treated with and without certain soil preps and
also of planting dates--paying attention to the Stella calendar or not--and
all I can say is that they DO work.

I cannot explain it in any terms other than Steiner used. But I don't
care...I get better crops with a lot of these things. I draw an exception at
standard compost--not the barrel compost, that seems to be super
concentrated, but I get as good a response from a traditional well-made
compost as from one that is treated with the preps.

Miranda Smith
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