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  • From: Allan Balliett <igg@igg.com>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Pc slammed in Whole Earth Review
  • Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 08:55:24 -0500


Thanks, Georg.
Maria Thun has a book out (Gardening for Life). I've used her calendar for, hell, decades now.

Unfortunately, much of Ms Thun's work has been irreproduceable (a requirement for the validity of a scientific experiement) and as such has no scientific validity.

This is fine in biodynamics, because it is easily explained that she farms in a special valley surrounded by 7 mountains which amplify planetary effects upon vegetation, etc. As far as I know, however, Maria Thun has her records and her opinions but she has nothing that can actually be called scientific proof.

I have found her book to very insightful and extremely helpful. I use the Kimberton STELLA NATURA calendar that's based on her European planting calendar and would never plant or tend without it.

As we biodyns like to say "Planting or spraying in the right hour (as determined by the moon and planets) is like surfing: it makes a huge difference whether or not you catch the wave."

Still interested in proofs of biodynamic and field sprays.

-Allan Balliett





> >success of their homopathic field sprays....

Just to miss the whole point of your post for a moment, Claude,
do
you have references for the above comment ? (re: Biodynamic /
Steiner
Field Sprays)

If you do, I'd like to see them.

there is a woman (in her 80s or 90s now, i believe) by the name
maria thun, who operates 3 big testfarms in different parts of
germany, started out with the first one some 50 or 60 years ago.
they do all sorts of yield and disease testing with the
homeosprays, mooncultivation and mor, i think. she keeps exact
documentation of her trials, and is propably willing to share
them withi the scientific community - part of it i think is also
published. all in german, though. if this is of interest, i dig
up her address. (she is issuing a mooncalendar, actually an astro
calendar, since she also takes some planetrary constellations
into account, and has been evolving it over the decades. to my
experience and those of other gardeners it is way better than all
the rest - btw, it is astronomical, not astrological. i am using
it as far as i manage.)


georg



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