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  • From: "Creation Farm" <creationsoap AT boone.net>
  • To: "'Market Farming'" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] straw bales as greenhouse heat source??
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 20:34:15 -0500

I can't help much with your straw bale heating system since we use a
woodstove but try bottling some of that hot air you got and then release it
when your little plants get cold. I can give you some pointers for dealing
with all that anxiety though;

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Mix soothing essential oils such as lavender, jasmine, geranium, ylang-ylang
and bergamot. This can be used by any of the following methods.

Use 50 drops of this blend in a diffuser or an aroma lamp
Add 6 drops to a hot bath (stirring gently to disperse)

Make a massage oil by adding 10 drops of the blend to one ounce of carrier
oil such as almond or olive.

Additional Steps you may want to consider on your way to horticultural
greatness and becoming a tomato millionaire by having early season fruit:

Cut down on your caffeine and sugar intake gradually, take a walk mid day on
these short winter days to get some sunlight, and try to work out at least
45 minutes to an hour each day. Give yourself a meditation break whenever
you feel these self indulgent spells of greatness coming on and eat more
vegetables and fruit. Add a handful of walnuts to your diet each day and
consider a spray dried green barley grass powder you can mix with water and
drink at lest a teaspoon each day.



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-----Original Message-----
From: market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:market-farming-bounces AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Allan
Balliett
Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2006 8:13 PM
To: lists AT rhomestead.com; Market Farming
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] straw bales as greenhouse heat source??

Beth - Thanks for your effort. I do subscribe to and read "growing
for Market" The questions I asked Steve were outside of what's been
covered in Growing for Market.

As far as Penn State, if you've suggested them as a resource, I
assume that you haven't spent much time reading their studies. I have
read a lot of their reports and I've heard a number of papers
presented at PASA. The first thing I will say is that I am totally
dumbfounded by how much affect an undergraduate's unreplicated
"discoveries" can have on the market farming industry. Secondly, I'm
really taken back at how often 'results' of studies are used as facts
when, if you read the studies, you'll find that gaffs in growing have
affected the outcome at least as much as any of the variables. I
study that came to mind ended with the statement "Future studies may
consider varying the amount of water given to the plants outside the
hoop house and inside the hoop house. In this study, water was fixed
and I think that may have affected our outcomes." Well, so do I.

Anyway, I appreciate your efforts to set me straight, Beth. What I'm
really looking for when I ask my trying questions is grower
experience, even if I have to have the experience of other farmer
mediated through the irreplaceable Steve Diver, the one among us who
gets to see what a lot of people are doing and can report it in ways
we all can benefit from.

Again, as far as Penn State is concerned: you wouldn't go to them for
advice for livestock health, would you?

Well, I guess a lot of people on this list probably would, but for
me, their paradigm is unworkable.

Later -Allan
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