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- From: "Kieran &/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>
- To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [NAFEX] OT: biodynamic winery
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 23:21:33 -0500
Since BD methods tend to produce high brix produce,
a winery ought to do just fine with it. There is someone in our area using
BD preps to farm, and Tennessee Alternative Growers Assn (now defunct) used to
meet at his place every year, so I was exposed to a good bit about it. I
thought BD was downright spooky when I first heard about it, and was relieved to
hear that Steiner was a Christian mystic whose followers were persecuted by the
Nazis. The Nazis were into some weird mystical stuff themselves, and if
you put any stock in any of that stuff, then their enemies are probably good
guys. All mystical weirdness aside, I began to realize that Steiner's BD
preps sounded like recipes to grow specific cultures. The clue
is in his follower's recipe, Maria Thunn's barrel compost. Wash an oak
barrel with a strong tea of chamomile and leave it out in the weather till it
develops a violet fungus. (This is a pretty common fungus in oak I notice,
hollow stumps and branches in really rainy weather.) Now some 100 years
later, modern science is catching on that fungal symbiosis is important to
plants.
I guess I have to admit that
some mystical weirdness is going on though. When we visited Jeff's one
time, my husband hadn't had his ear operation yet and couldn't hear anything
Jeff was saying on the farm tour. Jeff said, "Reach down in that barrel
there, get a handful and see if you can figure out what it is." We're all
standing there with something that looks like coffee grounds and I handed some
to my husband. About 3 minutes later he asked, What IS this stuff???
I feel like I've just had about 3 cups of strong coffee! Later on that day
Jeff heard about this and took him down in the basement to try holding some
other samples. Kieran could tell him what they did, like stimulate bone
growth, etc. Jeff was just delighted, verified everything he said.
It would be fun to get hold of some preps now that Kieran has had a lot more
practice with feeling energy. The BD food Jeff served made ours seem
tasteless. We know a guy from Poland who says that for the first 2 years
he lived here, he could only tell what he was eating by shape and color.
He says American food has no taste. I said he needed to grow a garden, he
said he'd tried that and it wasn't any better. If what makes fruits and
veggies taste good is the chemicals they synthesize using trace minerals,
then surely mycorrhizal fungi would give us a chance to grow better tasting
food. And the long "incubation" time to make the preps, usually
underground, implies that fungi is what is being produced.
Donna
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Re: [NAFEX] OT: biodynamic winery,
Kieran &/or Donna, 09/03/2009
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[NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Robert Bruns, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
mIEKAL aND, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor, Richard Harrison, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
mIEKAL aND, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor, Hal Love, 09/04/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
- Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor, Bob Kelly, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
mIEKAL aND, 09/03/2009
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Re: [NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Robert Bruns, 09/03/2009
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[NAFEX] Fig flavor,
Hilborn . E, 09/03/2009
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