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[Dieter Brand <diebrand@yahoo.com>]

George,
 
The original documents are in French, at least for Bonfils.  I have a machine 
translated English version of Bonfils’ text which is perfectly 
incomprehensible.  Unfortunately, the person who had it made refused to share 
his copy of the French original.  I also came across a discussion of French 
agriculturists the other day which indicated that the original is definitely 
not available, not for money and not for sweet words, even in France.  You 
probably know Mark Moody’s English summary of Bonfils’ work entitled “The 
Harmonious Wheatsmith”, or something like that.  Mark Moody may have a copy 
of Bonfils’ work in French.  People talk a lot about Bonfils’ Winter Wheat.  
Unfortunately, I haven’t heard of anyone actually practicing it.  Where I 
live, wheat is normally grown in the winter by the traditional method 
(Nov.-June).  It is far too dry to grow clover or sow wheat in the summer.  I 
know of a Natural Farmer in Hokkaido, the
 northernmost island of Japan, who sows wheat in Nov. to let it go dormant 
during the winter for it to grow again first thing in spring.  But she 
doesn’t use clover, at least not yet.
 
I think, I still have some of the manuscripts of Emilia Hazelip someone once 
uploaded to the net as image files.  I’m not sure if they correspond to the 
data you look for.  Anyway, there are a number of English language texts on 
the net about her Synergistic method.  Perhaps you know that when Fukuoka was 
shown pictures of Emilia’s place he said that it wasn’t Natural Farming.  
Well, that doesn’t matter to me.  Nevertheless, even though I like her 
general philosophy, I don’t like raised beds.  It may not be so bad in a 
temperate climate (where raised beds were first conceived), but under sever 
dry conditions, as in my case, the disadvantages of drying out become too 
obvious.  I prefer to raise my entire growing area by gradually adding 
organic matter to the top, or if I had a very deep and sandy soil, I might 
even go for lowered beds (waffle beds).
 
Cheers, Dieter




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hi dieter:

well, i am satisfied with the german text, for i can read it.

> I think, I still have some of the manuscripts of Emilia Hazelip  
> someone once uploaded to the net as image files.  I�m not sure if  
> they correspond to the data you look for.

what i am looking for is at the end of emilias text, were she gives  
species recommendations for the tropics. if this is shown on your  
image files i would be very grateful if i can receive the relevant one.

best,
georg




Mit freundlichen Gr��en,

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