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  • From: "Dave Adams" <adamsdp@comcast.net>
  • To: <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Livingontheland Digest, Vol 125, Issue 3
  • Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:29:26 -0500


Thanks to everyone so far for the helpful replies. There obviously are many
ways to get the job done and I definitely will only garden organically. Raised
beds/no-till look like they have many advantages, especially for my situation.

Dave

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Message: 32
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 16:31:15 -0500
From: "bruce smith" <cityhomesteader@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Farming methods - no till and others
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
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"Gorilla gardening" recommends casting seed balls containing edibles on to
vacant lots and fields and properties being neglected by the owners. Then
returning and harvesting the results.. Take it one step further and plant
wild fruit trees in place of weed trees that sprout up. Then you would have
fruit and vegetables ,,

On Jan 19, 2008 2:57 PM, Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com> wrote:

How about making seedballs? Some people seem to create something
of a social event around the making of seedballs. With people sitting
around and chatting while making them manually. As a kid, I always
loved to play with mud. But you would need a bit of land to broadcast
the seedballs.

Dieter

*"E. E. Mitchamore Jr" <emitch@att.net>* wrote:

My wife, an Occupational Therapist, suggested herbs. The fragrance might
be appealing.

E. E. "Mitch" Mitchamore
www.hillcountrynatives.biz

----- Original Message -----
*From:* yarrow@sfo.com
*To:* Healthy soil and sustainable growing<livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
*Sent:* Friday, January 18, 2008 11:43 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Livingontheland] Farming methods - no till and others

Does he like counting? Sowing seeds might be something he would especially
enjoy. Placing the seeds at a specific depth and spacing is a repetitive
process, then waiting a certain number of days to germination, and more days
to first harvest.

What does he like to eat? That would be my first choice of what to plant.

My garden is organic no-till. I use lots of homemade compost, no
fertilizer, and lots of mulch. For new seedbeds, I use row cover to keep the
squirrels and birds from digging up the seeds.



At 11:48 AM -0500 1/18/08, Dave Adams wrote:
I am a new member with an autistic son who is 12. I am exploring
different vegetable farming methods to see which my son is interested in and
also which methods lend themselves to his functioning level. He loves
watering things and tasks that have a definite endpoint work well for him.
I am planning several different types of gardens on small scales this year.
In addition to our tilled garden, I will add a square foot and lasagna
garden. Any advice is welcomed and I was just wondering what methods
people on this list are doing and maybe some of you have compared/tried
different methods and I could learn what worked for you and why. Thanks!

Dave Adams
Sterling Heights, MI


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Message: 33
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 09:10:01 +1100 (EST)
From: Martin Naylor <martinwnaylor@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [Livingontheland] body knowledge
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I am not a scientist however the following makes sense
Cells have their own memory, this could come from primal forces such as love and evil whether they where present before the creation of the universe is unknown
Single cells it is assumed began to respond to light in a liquid environment, from these cells all life originated [what made DNA and RNA to combine to form the first cell is still unknown] this is assumed by exploration into DNA for example humans share 50% of there DNA with plants
Cells have there own memory that is they know whether to become a liver cell or an eye cell or any other cell they know when to live and when to die
It is assumed that when the mind as a thought an electrical impulse is released which stimulates other cells to release chemicals these chemicals are excepted or rejected by other cells in the body for example you may decide to have a drink [this also could be habit] the above process allows you to put your hand to the cup and lift it to your lips and tip into your mouth, this happens along with a million other things your body is doing at the time eg homoeostasis, it is also responding to the estimated 400 bits of info coming into the mind per second
For cells to know what they need requires intense observation, and in fact cells probably need very little eg it is said humans need a wide variety of food is this true? all other animals and plants require very little variety, humans have the ability to adapt from pure meat diet Eskimos to total raw veg diet and survive, if you observe how humans treat other humans in war you can observe they can survive on practically nothing for a long time.
This cellular knowledge is hard for science to prove at the moment, like Love and evil everyone knows that these forces exist but there is no scientific way of proving this
martin









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