It is good news that people frm your school(?) are comimg for the course by Fukuoka....... I am planning to b ein the course as well, as I also live in thesame...
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Sameer Mohan
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Sep 1, 2002 2:23 pm
Yah seeds is good idea..as I had seen fukuoka collecting or rather maybe observing seeds of Guava on his visit to India in !987-88.......though I think he...
Hey Rita, Look before you leap, think outside the box... and other such tired clichés. These ARE the facts as we know them because they are being discovered...
But, then, isn't carrying seeds from one country to another illegal? I mean, without going through 'proper channels'. I don't think anyone on this group, not...
Long out of print in North America, I make Fukuoka's books available here at a reasonable price. They took much work to find and come from the other side of...
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RobinFernández-Med...
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Sep 2, 2002 8:56 am
Hello everyone, It was nice to read you last email Don Graves. I find Mychorizea a fascinating subject. I had the opportunity to Study with Paul Stamets in...
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Don Graves
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Sep 2, 2002 10:43 am
Hi Robin Fungi & plants are commonly generally regarded as not a good thing... this is in part because there are a significant numbers of 'parasitic' fungi, &...
Definitely. The first thing that comes to mind would be a small statue of the shinto farming god. Remember in one of the books when he talks about the shinto...
Robin - Check out Elaine Ingham's Soil Foodweb work. I think its at http://www.sfi.com Elain is the academic who has been studying the making and applying of...
First off, I have been using simple compost teas and they have clearly worked well but smell terrible. Thus I will phase out of using them as it appears the...
I also noticed in MF book the natural way of farming that there is a large italian farm i believe near Turin that has switched over to natural farming. there...
I heard mentioned I believe by Wu Wei that Ethiopia currently has a food surplus due to natural farming methods. I have contacted the Ethiopian Environment...
Hello Robert, its good to have you here and to find someone else out there working toward the same goals - who knows, soon we might reach a critical mass! Who...
Hello Robin, I can only imagine your problem is literally growing out of a previous imbalance that has not yet righted itself. What was the land you're growing...
Tewolde Egziabher, who will appear with Fukuoka at the Shiva school presentation in October, has been steadily guiding Ethiopian farmers back to their roots in...
Robin, Leland, et al - I'm a biological farmer in northern virginia, usa. I've established 3 major gardens and am currently serving as head gardener for a 167 ...
... Bad smells from compost or compost teas are first warning signs that something is wrong with the compost or the tea. You want a nice earthy smell, like...
... stream-bathing ... I wonder about ... Synergistic Garden? Nice! It will allow Fukuoka to realise there are many outside Japan and the developing world who...
... somewhat >>amusing, since your group posts two electronic versions of One Straw for free download. Robert--please don't take the question of about the...
Henry Thoreau had his own answer to the question of what grows under pine trees. The answer was young oaks and chestnut trees grow there, well-nursed during...
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Don Graves
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Sep 3, 2002 9:32 am
Hi Allan ... I am hopefully meeting Dr Elaine Ingham in Blenheim New Zealand ... this Thurdsay Aug 5th In my relatively short experience with mycorrhiza...
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Sameer Mohan
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Sep 4, 2002 5:11 am
Thanks for the update on Tewold as i had no clue Abt him and that not much was being mentioned at the Shiva School..... It should be most appropriate to attend...
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RobinFernández-Med...
flyingdebris1@...
Sep 4, 2002 9:10 am
Thanks to all those responses on the issue of Fungus. I agree with Jamie and others on the result of an imbalanced ecosystem being conducive to fungal...
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Chris Sawyer
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Sep 4, 2002 10:27 am
If you want to clean up the spores, try using a product called Zerotol. It is OMRI approved for certified organic operations. It works by oxidizing the spores...
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Don Graves
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Sep 4, 2002 10:53 am
There is little more sure than we cannot be sure about anything, as per a humorous comment from a biology & genetics professor, ... when the human species was...
Hello again Robin, I find it useful to consider fungal problems as indicating a general problem in the health of my plants, the fungus just doing what it is...
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Don Graves
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Sep 4, 2002 5:52 pm
Hello Robin & Jamie...& all in fact NOT ALL fungi are decomposers, (saprotrophic).. parasitic or disease causing... The oldest mycorrhiza group (Zygomycetes) ,...
