Re: Copper Culture-Biodynamic farming

**N* S* <s*@earthlink.net>**

Have you actually done the cow horn thing? I happen to have a cow  
horn - a gift from Jeff Ball -
he picked it up on his grandfather's farm eons ago. No chemicals ever  
touched the lips of the animal that grew it.
    I also have a source for cow pies, picked  right out of the field  
- the product of free range cows. I've read Steiner's
books - used them as a sleep agent after my husband died.  Tell me it  
works and I will get out my shovel.

Nancy Szerlag

On Apr 18, 2008, at 6:06 PM, Miranda Smith wrote:

> 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
> ----------------
>
> 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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