The New & Improved [ROLS MEGATHREAD].

[SilverSurfer_OG]

Ok so i have a compost tea ready to rock AND an SST 2.0 at the same time... any preference on which one to use first?

Im thinking ACT today, SST 2.0 tomorrow...

 

[ClackamasCootz]

hey coot any insight into sprouted seed tea using legumes? I couldn't find any decent answers out there.

I did see however that the enzymes created are supposed to be protein converting ones as opposed to the starch converting ones with grains. I'm not quite sure of the greater implications

BugJar

I've used beans, lentils, rice, grass seeds (barley, wheat, rye), alfalfa, cover crop mixes (vetch, winter rye, etc.) - you're good to go!

Rice can be tricky because unless you get untouched raw rice you won't have good germination rates at all.

CC

 

[ClackamasCootz]

SST v2.0

Milky!!

Old_Headbanger

Is that your first batch?

CC

 

[DARC MIND]

..I like cannabis...especially living soil organic old school sativa...

droped some ssh & lumbo^^^ beans following the rhythm of the moon...

 

[Heliopolis]

BugJar

I've used beans, lentils, rice, grass seeds (barley, wheat, rye), alfalfa, cover crop mixes (vetch, winter rye, etc.) - you're good to go!

Rice can be tricky because unless you get untouched raw rice you won't have good germination rates at all.

CC

I've sprouted Lundberg's Black Japonica rice with great success. I haven't tried any other varietals or brands; it's just something I have around.

 

[ClackamasCootz]

MrSterling

What has been presented as Biodynamic is as far removed from Steiner's writings or even Dr. Pfeiffer that you could possibly get - in this case 'Biodynamic' is simply an empty vessel filled with someone's creative imagination

Here's the Biodynamic Preparations

BD #501 - Quartz ground & made into a paste, placed inside a cow's horn, buried and allowed to ferment. 1/2 teaspoon is stirred into 3 gallons of water for an hour and this is the amount for an entire acre

BD #502 - Yarrow - 1 teaspoon to 10 tons of compost

BD #503 - Chamomile - 1 teaspoon to 10 tons of compost

BD #504 - Stinging Nettles - 1 teaspoon to 20 tons of compost

BD #505 - White Oak Bark - 1 teaspoon to 10 tons of compost

BD #506 - Dandelion - 1 teaspoon to 10 tons of compost

BD #507 - Valerian - 1 part flowers to 4 parts water and allowed to ferment. 1 teaspoon is added to 2 gallons of water and this will treat 10 tons of compost​

To call this 'fertilization' isn't accurate nor would any Biodynamic farmer make such specious claims. The concept of fertilization is not at the core of this system.

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[ClackamasCootz]

I've sprouted Lundberg's Black Japonica rice with great success. I haven't tried any other varietals or brands; it's just something I have around.

Lundberg Farms grows some of the world's finest rices. Their rice is the one that I was thinking about when I typed my comments about getting raw rice - this is a perfect choice.

CC

 

[Old_Headbanger]

Old_Headbanger

Is that your first batch?

CC

Yep. First successful one anyway. I forgot the first batch in the cloth diaper, and the sprouts grew through the diaper in a couple days. Doh!!

 

[ziggestardust]

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

 

[vonforne]

Always be yourself. Unless you can be a unicorn, then always be a unicorn.

I just wanted to see a Unicorn. I dress up like Peter Pan to give myself that fairytale look to make it possible for me to see the Unicorns. Dressing like this gives me my power.

 

[SilverSurfer_OG]

The whole bio-dynamics thing is like shamanism. They may be crazy or they may have tapped into alternate realities, dimensions of time and space etc on a psilocybin trip or 3.

They could be way ahead of their time like Nicola Tesla and Jimi Hendrix.

The quantum field for example interacts with all matter.

 

[Gascanastan]

I just wanted to see a Unicorn. I dress up like Peter Pan to give myself that fairytale look to make it possible for me to see the Unicorns. Dressing like this gives me my power.

..ha after dressing like Peter Pan to see the unicorn I strip naked and swing my sword at the dragon....while smoking power flowers.

 

[ziggestardust]

Screw horsetail, I add unicorntail to my brews (dressed up as Tinker Bell).

 

[ClackamasCootz]

They could be way ahead of their time like Nicola Tesla and Jimi Hendrix

The same thing can be said about Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Another genius that was way ahead of his time......

 

[ickyweed]

The same thing can be said about Tiny Tim - Tiptoe Through the Tulips

Another genius that was way ahead of his time......

Lol daughters favorite song on silly songs....

 

[mapinguari]

Is this ROLS or LULZ?

 

[ClackamasCootz]

"Alex, I'll take LULZ for the win in Double Jeopardy"

 

[Rising Moon]

Maybe Ill coin the term BDLS...

 

[John Deere]

I'm not very familiar with the whole biodynamics thing but spirituality stuff does intrigue me so I guess I've got some research to do. Looks like it might be interesting.

 

[ClackamasCootz]

I'm not very familiar with the whole biodynamics thing but spirituality stuff does intrigue me so I guess I've got some research to do. Looks like it might be interesting.

You'll be better off going to the source at the controlling entity for Biodynamic Farming - Demeter-USA and at that web site you can review the history and not have to plow through someone's interpretation.

Next web site to look at would be the Pfeiffer Center founded by Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer

Dr. Ehrenfried Pfeiffer, who was born in 1899, first met Rudolf Steiner at the age of 19. Pfeiffer's mother and stepfather were both anthroposophists and knew Steiner personally, but they never spoke to Ehrenfried about Spiritual Science, leaving him to find it on his own. Pfeiffer was in university at the time, and Steiner immediately set to work designing Pfeiffer's education. The course load was extremely heavy, and strongly weighted to the sciences: as Steiner told Pfeiffer, to overcome materialism, we must know its means and methods as well as we know our own.

Within a few years, Pfeiffer was living in Dornach and working closely with Steiner. Pfeiffer wrote that "In 1922 Rudolf Steiner described for the first time how to make the biodynamic preparations, simply giving the recipe without any sort of explanation – just 'do this and then do that.'" It was Pfeiffer, with Ita Wegman and Gunther Wachsmuth, who made and applied the first batch of Preparation #500, years before the Agriculture Course of 1924. Pfeiffer was one of a small circle of people entrusted with putting biodynamics into practice, to get as much land as possible under biodynamic care so that, in Steiner's words, "in future everyone will be able to say, 'We have tried it, and it works,' even though some of these things may still seem strange right now."

In 1928, Pfeiffer took charge of Loverendale, a farm of over 500 acres in the Netherlands. To the massive task of converting a conventional farm to BD, and making it economically self-sufficient, all in the difficult economic conditions of the inter-War years, Pfeiffer added considerable obligations as a speaker, teacher and consultant, traveling extensively throughout Europe and North America. This established a lifestyle that persisted to the end of Pfeiffer's life, through all manner of adversity and illness: complete dedication to furthering the work begun by Rudolf Steiner, encompassing agriculture and many other fields as well.

Pfeiffer lectured in the States regularly during the 1930s, and was a fixture at the Threefold summer conferences, which grew in length and scope with each passing year. In the late 1930s he was invited to work at Philadelphia's Hahnemann Medical College, where he experimented with using the crystallization patterns of blood for the diagnosis of cancer. This work resulted in Pfeiffer's being awarded an honorary Doctor of Medicine degree from Hahnemann in 1939. When the war came, Pfeiffer brought his family to Kimberton, Pennsylvania, where Alaric Myrin offered Pfeiffer the opportunity to create a model biodynamic farm and training program. Pfeiffer also led the initiative to found the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association, and to start its journal. While at Kimberton, Pfeiffer met J. I. Rodale, a relationship that gave biodynamics a little-known place in the history of the American organic movement.

In the 1940s, Pfeiffer developed and brought to market commercially viable compost "starters" that helped make biodynamics accessible to home gardeners and conventional farmers. Between 1950 and 1952, he developed and directed an innovative municipal composting program in Oakland, California, in which Oakland's household garbage was composted and pelletized for use as agricultural fertilizer.

Pfeiffer died in 1961, his life shortened by multiple illnesses and also no doubt by the massive workload he took upon himself, the scope of which is barely suggested in this brief account.

The Threefold Community itself holds a unique place in the history of biodynamics in America. Threefold Farm was the first piece of ground in America to be worked using the biodynamic method, and Threefold land has been farmed and gardened biodynamically continuously since 1926. The Biodynamics Conference was held at Threefold every year from 1948 until 1980.

More information, links, etc. at both web sites

CC