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YR Seeds for Sarto . MT 18, Weeds: Guartans of the Sa. AB 14 elles tn the Greenhouse 178 15. Dus for Lie ect 185 16 tle and Dear in te Foren 198 a 23 16 Bemass Can Dot a 226 18. Pastied woth Fre nine BES2 2 2 steswelganost “rong a te Narure - ‘Towers of Power ve Commicntoure perelandru oo . Epogue - APPENDICES Light toma tne East : Seeing i Sebesing cee “Turee Quarks for Muster Bare Stetser and Anbropesophy Planetary Powers. vn os: To ana Wneze To we ‘abuography . 239 a0 312 aa asi 360 00 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (us syatefa dhaniks tal those whes have helped and conte vled io this etort espeeslly for readme the Teamuseript it ‘aking belptl suggestions, Pld Alter for hs enconmageaie ‘while the golng was rough. Dr Baygea Rateavvr for anaring her Caeycopedcnowiedge ofthe soll and liow t ene fre gars ‘ally, Chatsian and Janna Carpe Tor Unie (rvaable sen lance over the years. parurolaety with eer-neralation of Eure ‘ean sls; Sara Sorelle for her encerSl and ndelitigable help i, esearching the Dook: Jerree Tompians forthe onde proctse: tng of material through her TBM PC: ana, as always. the stall of ‘he Library of Congress (or their mwvaluable faeaities so courte ‘ustyoferee-eltuea ardortanatst ne longer nadie to echo {iy thanks to the tneubant Liman of Congress ‘We ave also auch behailen, for the hospitaiy sador logis tte support to: Hosetenuat and wether Or. Alesaider Drader land to histerian De Pavel Pomen tn Moscow, USSR. eagineet ana closer Wiadinlers Saware: spiro Leen Stead aw! HOS a Heer. 9 Warsaw, Poin: and wo Dr edene Reydek, Pree ent, Ieesralioral Association fo Peychotronie Resear an be able teerpeter Eva Rosbaiova s2 Prague, Casenesen aki era Raovie-Feading enalvarofeantesmporiry Amerie nd Bish Betion. In Belgrade. and Mz and Men Mato Mode in Rovin Yogostael: Dr Maria Pekenreih, ghtes ie ec agri fone, is Garserndor, Assia: Le nd Hans Sehunoiin LarreneSorat “lg rome Lema, ruler physicist turned enroamenia isin Seuss ese Moos pu Salamis GER Jerome Dumoun sored, LBsyres sd SED Bat sco sven oe Fee Pranesie ascent Badarin Pac France, Jot. Satnay ae i tla, Cutwad, Hanna Camp ard Davis Bit, Bion ‘scutes ev Cage, Yrowcibe'- Our ans ako Marie Meath of Haar! Civersty ad tos father Van Meer. Setter of Mawnan iangunge and neat e Aveta Ud Been Wtangton: Br tr in matance dipering Many tetrcaldicneces and tapes om fhe fortes Sot talon INTRODUCTION Rocreature. noteven swine befoula te est smh sach abandon ay does heme soplens, galnonng hls habitat ‘ith fendishiy concocted chemicals andar del tae wate ‘Araorass of Zctog human flesh avis us al wes the ant Soles are raplaiy applied Providentally, they ex. they work, land as delated in these pages, ean bangs nec to Reeth, ‘That the earth 1s alling~cimost bevona repatr—wae clea nough a early as 1912 fo Nobel Poze winner Dr, Alcs Carrel Mary the Uukown tis emment Prenem sete warmec Laat strc sos the basis or all rumen fe. oor only hope fea eae ‘worid rests on reestabllsute ‘e Rarmiony fn the st we have ‘iarupted by our esiesa saethods of egronommy. AU of We wl be eather bealthy or until, suid Carrel, according fo Ure etlty of he sou. Durer indeedy, al tnd comes Beas soi, “Tatay soils ae ted, overworked, deplete, sick, pole by synthe chemicals. Hence the quailty of fod hae suilered atid sehas heath. Malpulnuon toga wets Har se, Buea sna Ialth depence na wholesune fod, and she a on eet fectie and productive sels Minerale te sc satd Carvel coe {Hol the metabollcn of eels mp plant, asia, gd man. Dlsessey fre created chiely by destroying Ue hareony celaning amo0g ‘Rneral bstanees present in nines mount i ale {5 ond, fut roost inportanty (0M Iso ta deflsont 2 face evgents. food ard ater willbe equal detksenta Senet te 1arrel then came tthe pot: cera etizers cannot ce sure sl fey, Tey o ot work om the sl, but are foctly ‘Med by plana, posing both plant and sal Only organic ‘Rumtos ras fo i, Plato sats Cael are Uv grea interme “tues ty which dhe lente rocks, converted yong Soe tn tums can be sade ave to anal and man, to Eeult tno Desh, bone and biood. Chemical fezers, on the ony a eer ao the Par atest a 0 ace I Tey Cesta praca propertes, ore te Te: when chemical feceiers are put into Ove so they dseave 1 sere stra combanaion wis lnerais aendy present. New SGaSisstona git or oveead the lant. casing Ht to become innlanced Others sain the sl any In the fra: of pot *effanethat are chem Fert ay Wok Ns. Dut Tash ruces materyussues, whieh Become more sce Banta and tne protein quate utr Cheralal fries Silt carer bv incense abundance of rps wc Mcing ai elements exiausted for the sol have cont est te changing me mative valve of our crea. “The more ‘hilznuon progesses, he sorter fgets from a natural det ur present des consist of aditerated and denture fds, ‘Pomc de most peious case factors have been reve enring beac bewing ae preserving Pasteur ile {ids ue enajmes val to mutton leaving only the ete corpees Stbactera, Wate bread haa tx gem. which contains tbe ta Senta, rtualy removed, a delberaie castration, anyone ae bere od Woe rpc 9 Borne kes x frend frat veaetables, and iat bear no eelaon f0 what {iy ee bere the war Our rap yfelde may have doubled or Ce Mapes, but ther nutatve qual has nish progres Sey, sual inpression of foods has become de most ispor Giivfacton though anyone witha glizmer of wecond wight wi fas up abo not ale tna te preiseta of Madan Tousss ‘Mie tteum, the coset snd cngeale splays ofthe grocery Sore ty bundanie does ot sean the fod contains sulin aout freee ements und wtaming. Tere fs ao doubt, sage De. Neleuoe Dikkers:Poteseor of Blechasy and Oaganie Che meat Lola Uncesty at mainntridon isthe most impor {Say tice confonting anne at te present ne. tie United Stila dese ts bouted fod production. te gossy under SREP id Uiouan tke per cops expenditere on eat ere tn {beast ene igen he wort, othe ncdence of cancer esl, hear, wad ecto seas, -Aacngy, Dr. Joseph D. Weisman, asocate reese a he ‘UCLA Gaia of eicne aspect in preventive nese ae Jmynnolpy ha discovered, oer years a esarcy that neatiy ‘the nannies cncass that preserty plage ond ate Of recent engin. developed during the lncieeth snd trent fentures ant tat the tailors of daar penton tear newt agnostic techruques, orga tamsplana. coronary bypass po, ‘dure, chemotherapy. radaton, anda inevarous drugs Fave Sot appeectbiy tered ine advance of these Mer Sseases, ut ‘otead fave merely envied te chs and he tea pee ‘tiene ‘Dr. Wetsoman argues that most of olay kler cases are ‘sed by enironmental toxin produced by our industtal soe {Mat doctors agree. anare wal the great crease iis ‘ses of degeneration, such au cancer and heart aiease. uae terealty the adrances of modern suede, se rma de © extensive use of syitheiechemiais in Cur daly det, fod pe Servatves Insects, anges, pestis, an 20 an ‘Most people says Weiteman, assume tel tments aise rom causto beyond thelr otto unaware at they ca choose ie exelent health, reaining ace. tin, aod alert into thelr Second centsry. le bees that choices of det ant este th fur ind Soketes pay slept pests ie anges Setheror nt we rviain vat pont ar pr Bul doctors tn general know wey He abou 0d, De, Robert $.Mencetsotin, Assooate Poa of Pevetie Meee atte atveray of thins Sebo! of Mekcne “deseraed as mente {fa anal aterty dented to recing the healing rs os Skomination of ag coeapanies lays the bare on he petra of Zisinfonetion on natron put ont io medio echoes, suagest tetera teach he suet a ore aan. Welsman recarh eval hat many ofthe ker dhacases have developed ony wit test andted ‘Year, deroonsraiyUvoush ote cerca node ine the Evironment and food supply as by products ofthe ingusral Revohitonchomscals auch acorn and ecco ‘ar derivates, pharmaceutical, petrochecale ard soon “he emergence of adulation, with te macave i wt, cobneided wit the appearance of many othe new deeses Out fcestor may have ad sore espa argcy owing too fot morality. says Weissman, but ke pears pebive pln they ave vty he of deena” ‘Ahinated years ag cory ear laase wae teal un ‘own n Bunope and America The fst case teeth the sal iterate sfaced in 1010. Today tothe ang cue ofsir Seanfteal “lath, Cancer, which today 8 responsible for 2.4 percent ofall ‘xa eae an Aer, reponse TF sea panded years ago Today even Hern aid very your ‘itlaren sre viel of acer and lee, Diabetes, the thd toot commou canse of Gea, once stuck any one hn ty ot {nd Americans, mow fess one i Water in pie lands as wn te cae ta develop cOUN ve tere ie inte nineteenth century needed no dinection, Where there aren tndusses facto pouring waste polit. Sn nto che ensronment, plant, marine fie an land acta Siero tate by dangers cecal, Sow, ot oly water ut Sip ar are evenere polluted, pollution that transmit 2d pant alo man. inthe devenped word ars ‘dtl thereto vlly no clean si wate lef toxin are WPi'the Yoot we ea the water we den he ar we breathe Frat vegetable, gra, uh pouley. mest, ea. dalty prod Tosser: And we ood ar conceiators and ma ies of te potuton, the weatest concentrations of toxins oc ‘tring nant fat and casestere Mother's rik could wat be ‘Suton te supermarket wou ot passe government's sale test. Trotetlon against dseas, saya Weissman, Is more portant and more eltectv. than later therapy And protective medicine Stare im the sl ‘Koa fe so wi artical areutarLadatves began in hele ofthe ass cenaay when a German ems Justis wea icbg Roown ae tne Tair of cherleal agpeultre.” mis ies dates tam the ases of = plant he had burnt tha “Shar surshe laste wae ntogen, phusphorous. ad po Tefotnaotm carbonate) Ue NPK of toda’ chee grt "Sevugs lcua ad he wrote profusely —ed toa vast and prof stable commercial development of synthe chemical, tiled by ‘opagand, rid farmers became dependent on German mics Rerbupalles of ptasstom salts, known as ‘smrlae of potash ‘Sia which fey were tld hat noth om ther farms woud one en Wort War ateropted exports rom Germany, prom Fecloslaated deposts inthe United Stats, unching ATE Sh compantes info rapid exlltaon of this bonanza of une cory chemin Pebus tie amunt of poaphorse ald als found nthe ash af nsburnt plant Lebigiurie omelet phoephoroes st Nea me reqltement for the grown of plans. ince Roman ttnce farmers nad tees ng pound bones an ete ‘oapnorua, By tewung bones wnt sift ac eis erated Inioicion wy ‘what he called “superphosphate When vest quantiles of Ueured calotam phoophate were discovered” teteved fo be the ‘Skeletons of se animals calcctd ove lions cf years a whole Sew indy of eral neal ror” was laced ‘Up unl Leb’ time twas beewed rat because vp sets vwerthighl frie, and contained ich humus he various stages ‘Tins brown decay one mater nas be te pancipal source ‘st aourshaent for pants, Libig attacked the nouen wath vee ‘Bence Otnatus anf tie humic acid dened Sor he wee "Theres not the shadow apron that eins of them exes ay tnfuence on the gow" af planta cer inthe way ef torte ‘ent or other “aa Wiliam Shestone put i I his 1873 ography of web These were the facts a argurtents Uy whe, one a fo al Let refered Se hums tery untenable by any Eason fromen being “Ta he secret rien sou yn orgnk excreta not chert cals Licig ony concluded ten year late. Toate at ie {he chemical companies were off to ach a profable stare tere ‘was ne stopping them in thets Reason nce to Gestrey the sat Tad al tat supports, "The Ast chemeal produced on a commercial seale inthe in ciples "ag of chemicals wan the sled used by abi ‘reduce his superphosphate" a clear, cocoa. oy guts The meat widely sold chemleal ty, bate o Ue mamufcte of aos of ther chemuesl substances, along wit te productos of ‘dyes, drugs, paper, pigments, and explosives, cae ‘ent most portant among the cheicals concocted nthe lab for commercit uve was alka soluble moa sal, nated by {he Arabs fon the se: beash seltwort pant fromm wise ates ey fst derived the sutance While was at Ars pinay {ed tn the manufacture of soap ad glass, by mid-neteenth ery all the major chemleal agents ine were connected ia {ne way or another to alka Brits s United Akal Corporation Se upin 1861, became tne word’ largest eheoical exerpace ‘i forthe fms employing iy chemists and twee tho Sand plant worker, tently ta be awallowed up by the Bat fsovernent sponsored smalgn of aperal Cette! Sauscen, ‘ecient «whole new branch of cheminry was developed ‘the mid ince century bya youry Engh chest) or working ins makes nbn father's house during the aster varation of 1858, Experimenting wid col lar, Wiss fenry Fern proce a mauve Oye feats sentient ben ‘ene te fet f the so-called tle dye. remarkable forthe ey Held fast ant ord not was out a Gd natal SolosPatented. fis mauve became fashionable at te court of both ‘Victoria and Napoleon I obtaining for Pesin a fortune and 2 Ienghthood. Soon aniline red, yellow. and blac followed mauve: thd millions emalned to be made from synthealzed lndige, the ‘calor of jeans, ‘Wes a disciple of Lebig Friedrich von Kelale.realized—in ‘what as been called "te most bilan plece of prediction to be found in the whole ange oforgantechemiszy" and ane that would clevate him to the nobulty tat sx atoms of carbon in the ben ene molecse cou! be liked together in acre, with 2 hyo fen som atached to each, Cerman chomists saw the Way to the canstnicton of endless new compounds by areificialy unt fg earbon tn ther tent tubes with hitogen. Hydrogen. sf, hiorize, ete, m what amounted ta a heyday for sorcerers ap Drentes, ‘Druga were goon added tothe inventory ef cemeal-company products, aa German and Swiss dye compantes found endless Dew ways of forming coal tar and other waste prodoets into & health debftating but highly proftable pharmacopoeta. In the ‘United States alone, 88 bilion ae spent yearly on so-called med nes, And coa! tar dyes had further lethal uses, chemically es ental to the vast expansion of explosives Tt remaed for a Gerinan chemist. Pit Haber, to dlscover tn 1906 a laboratory process for turaing the endless tons of free ‘trogen in the al ito quid ammonia, 82 pescent of which fltrgen. By 1015 Karl Boach, a German engineer, Joined Haber {designing the fst synthetic ammonia plant inthe Rete er fling the German Figh Command t due in the Rae's war German dye frm, banding together for patiousm™ and fo prof, produced explosives, chemical ertlizrs: drugs. and, asa bons, lhe olson gtses responsible fr some 800,000 casualtes World "With the end of hostiltes, the huge amounts of gus eft over were redirected tothe inseet—buton a wider scale, thanks (ode ltnproved methods ofdasting and apraying developed or humans bythe military, Inereased doses of nitrogen, no longer needed fr txplosives, weve indiserizinately camped on crops. weakening their resistance to Insects, creating a wilous otele that snow: balled as it endured, progressively mace proale forthe Few 38 ft polsoned sol anc aguller for the many ‘German enerieal compants, with money from ther opposite numbers in te United States—who had mate equally enorme profs from the wa-arnalgammated in 1825 to frm the 0. Pazben. ‘Songlomerate, soon the largest chemical enterprise in Evrope ‘lonely boride wth tte US partners, Togtier these conglomer Irina wv sates funded Hitler rearing iis Wehrmacht as “bulwark aginst the Soviets” And with petsoleut, courtesy of Standard Ot of New Sersey, Hite was enabled to roll hs tanks Inte Pld aad into ‘Wort War ‘While loyal Gls desperately sirugsed with thee lives to undo this bandhvork, at Auschwitz, Farbeo, with save labor gust Steed by Himmler, produced a special gas w exterminate ml Hone of unwary victzis, most Jewsh, ‘rom Word War I, Amercan chemical companies, which had! ‘poomed between the vara, derived an even greater bonanza from the ffee armorta Boseh hac prestidisinted from the aie A mil tion tone of tombe were dropped on Germany alone, causing mi ‘ons of dollar fo be funneled by U.S. taxpayers into chetcal ‘company coffers “At wat’ end, eighteen new ammenta factories, developed in the U.S. at taxpayers expense to manvfacture explosives were obliged toad a arket fb tet surplus, Pont, Dvr. Monsanto, ‘American Cyanamd. with thet vast wartame profits, produced fever more ferlizer to dump on the unwary farmer, who dumped ‘onto fs es t Ml the goose tha laid the gokien ea ‘Aba by-product ofthe war to ep les, lice, and other insect from contaminating GI troops, ont of the most toxc polutants frer mented was produced ty’ Swiss ciealat, Paul Mueller, who chose to give the secret ofits manufacture tothe Alles: DDT: Derived entirely fom the teat tube, it waa the most potent insec Llde yet seen, capable of iling al sorts of bugs in & broad spec {rum with astonishing speed and efficiency. On the home fron, with manpower critically shart, farmers used against insects to Snerease crop viel and save on labor Following die Aled victory in 1045, DDT began tobe used like water, unl the toxin seeped into every anita and bum body ‘m America, Everywhere, chemical firma relnvested thetrwaruine ‘aing to launch into unparalleled growth in tmassive quest for ‘ew synthetic broad-spectrum pesticides. The farwer fearing Saater—his plants, weakened by a surfet of ehetseals, were at tracting more and mare bugs timed to even tore chemieals Complacenty, the companies brought out new products by the SRE. oy cupriatedRdroarbes sila: fo DDT. such as ne, heptachlor.dlesdrn, alin, aoe end; abd “gate Phosphates” ach as parathion at maton fan attempt to beat the gatne by ever greater production, ‘muting farmers in Ameria, prodded by bankers, chemical com: anes. andthe mannfacturers of agricultural machinery, changed Subsistence way off 1 commercial enterprise, Awest cash payments in new land and equipment, going heavy omwil SeresctheS {ito debt om fetes, pestckes, and herbldes-and, in 306 Ing, seed tet own dom “fam chemicals wee pointless potsning the soln ‘cooigantes stunting pants and prolfrating degenceative ly ‘case in tian and beast was perecy clear to a whole Boup of ‘Stesuave inde in Europe and America am arly sa World Wa L Dintinguished,catressed, and wellinformed, several authors on bout ages ofthe atante were speaking up ad propaganda fora wablealeronte method of sgrcultte reqitring ho chem: can "Tels main premise was that tn soll properly nourished with adequate supiles of humus, crops do tot suffer from discaze, ‘ne Go not require polaououts sprays to ep off partes: Chat Shima fe on these plants Gevelop a high degree of disease re Sotance, and that man, nurtured with sch plans and animal, an reach an extraordinary (and infact qulte natural stata nclth, able to resist disease aid infect from whatever cause ‘One ofthe Rest to sense thatthe use of chemical etiiaers was oing mage harm thast good, that twas destroying the We and ‘tally oftopeot, momensarly simulating plant growth but ac tually initng sease, was Sir Albert loward. Ay Bish cao hal oftcer nnd, with te high-sounding We of tepertal Chem fal Bots to the Government of te Ra at Pusa Sic Alert had the rare opportunity of being fe to cary ut experiments with tut restraints. enabling fim to grew whalever crope he liked in Sn way he ed i lad, money and lates provided by the fi was Uhus able to observe, dlspasslonatey, and with no axe to grind, te reaction of sultable snd property grown varcica of plants when subjected to insects and other potential pest, He ound tna the factor that nos mattered nao maiagerent was 2 regular supply of restiy mage Hus, prepare rom anal ‘testable wastes, and thatthe matntenance of sol fraty ‘was the fundazenta bass of health. Tie claimed that his crop, grown on land 20 treated, resisted all the peste that were rifle the dltree and that this resistance tras posse on to the livestock when they were fen crops 80 (gow He nouced that the natives never used atifal fries EF potson sprays: but were exremey earefalin returning all ant Sal ana plant esues to the sa Every Dade of gran a could be salvaged. al leaves that fel all weeds that were cut down fun thtr way back ito the aol, thereto decompose into fu ‘mus and reenter the exee of fe, ‘Sir Alber: proved that vestock fed on organically grown fodder Inet xi were disease rsistant, as were ls oxce, which even dug an {pldemic of hoof-and mouth disease ribbed owes with mfeeced Stock with no dl effects “The heathy. wel fed ar {als reacted lowards the discase exactly as improved sav prop. ny caltvated crops dl to insect an fing no Ingection oe Sone “e-a esult fis experiment, Sr Albert reached the cones sion that ere have a rata power orate tone Sedat proper tin tat requ ome this power “But the moment we mare ulate hse {fetatogen coe by means of aril nanaren he sulphate tine rouble Segna which malay enews tee Steno items and bythe ong out oe vate ‘ropn wed restock sed on ad ade ry hs methods of me trenvent stained igh sensu of nt eo Sectve ne prea, av well st Eom cepeerate case Fortbr hs tament appeared tobe cua ao wel as proce "By 1016 Sr Albert was lecturing tht chemla res were waste of mong’ mantaning that te mates alg wa {he god aeration ir promted: was sone sugh i alo ri trata prove sitet noon mutts et the wor ‘Rerang organ 1901 ar tty years Si ‘Abert treme ew athe oon ofthe “gan oven fd et about popular in Seas, by te bepalng othe ‘Second word Warn ad og oot hist Testament Ellowea when te shooting vas res by Te So ett Heal tok inhi ne warned tht the eo ymin ene er ‘react mperecy athe pce ea ts ‘isin many oe htnaes ved pla. anal ‘sn blight ly alcatel a apie sya in which ene pice are produced om fest thn it tein th eve eae st wel the ant reat ease a the vane) a Sens and purposes eer” Ina it such sawartspgrters of Sc Abert a9 Lady Exe Baird tae fr eae Brain, oneiing te Se A ‘Reston and procing 2 thoroughly cnc eur ered stg Seti raiated Hod oa poem tnt hares {ules pnts n power of Gases relance anutng a ‘eto imepaiy. ring wit cat be oblaed t a tit ferns, Ja ucld terms Lacy Eve pointed out thatthe action of re polnted out that the action of compost {enot duc tothe plant nucrients contains, butt ts bloga which has the effect of funasmentally modiving the soll‘uccodora, “All tese substances are merely some of the raw ‘materials fom which mos can be made, They cannot became humus unt they Rave been metaballzed by sll organs” ‘But the odds were to heavy stacked against her. tmpertal Cchernicals forged aead unmlested. In the United States. J Rodale picked up dhe banner and laced w movement with is ‘Onnie Gardening and Farming Manazne, Ws tenets supported by Pay Dut, published in 1045, at Exumnats, Pnasyvants, Rodale ‘teated an experimental organic farm and was active in organiz Ingorganie garcen cubs throughout the United States, He pointed fut that in China organic agrientute was able to feed popula tlon of rine hundred mllon, nearly an many lvestock, an. on ‘Sout the same amount of arable land ass avaliable the United ‘States, cree times de msmber of hogs. He quoted reports from (avelers w China to the effect that there was no starvation, poverty or the like, all wttbout huge ‘doses of chemicals. insecdcids, and heavy. petroleum gobbling machines, but only by careful eomposting of ll organte stuf and ‘labor intensive method. Sclentife support fo te argument for organte farming came in lapidary language ftom one ofthe most brant sol seentts produced in Aateres. Dr. Willan A, Albrecht, CHalerian of te Bepartinent of Solis atthe Unversity of Missourt, wit four de frees fom the Unversity of Mina, Widely traveled, he had st {ed the sola of Great Brain, the Buropenn continent, and Aus ‘tralia, drawing conclusions seasoned bya farm boy's upbringing. His extensive experiments with growing plants and animals sub- ‘tantated his observation that a dolning ol fertty. due toa lack oforgante materia, major elements, a trace mineral, was ‘esponsfie for poor crops arin turn for pathologleal conditions| {antmals fed dedcient foods fom such sols, and that mankind ‘waa no exception. Degenerate diseases, as causes of death [1 the Unite States, had isen fram 38 percent ofthe popula In the decade 1920-29 to 60 percent inte year 1948, Organic ater, sd Aibroent, may be called the consttuon of the sal. And goed constitution, he added wryly, the capac: fy. according tots eanlng as use in the medic profession, of fn indivdual to soreve despite the doctor rer than because fof then insects and disease, he pointed out. are the symptoms ft falling erop. not the eaue. “The use of polsonous speays Is fin act of cesperation in dving agriculture. Feller placement fe the art of putting salt an the ground so that plant roots can Sometiow manage to avold it” Thiauim he preached that weeds are an index to the characte of the ool iis therefore a mistake to Fly on herbitdes to eradieate aT Dito mt them, since the chemin deal with eff. not use, ners ‘farce predator are dnponl crews, sno wien ty ae ‘bce repeed wien they ares Crop nace ty wetter Bef aildcoldsnapa are no sonnel the result of dou Sa cold aa of nusent debsery. Nw [rose phorphons ‘easton formulae, legislated and enforced by Sate Depart nis of agricaltire, mean ralmvtrton, stack Uy Insects, bac {ern end fong, weed takeover erop lost iy weather, and oss of ental act inthe population, ending to degen EBtve metabolic disease and cary death She vant biblograpiy of Albrecht’ sclentie and popatar pa per veni ituine of eleuous centNe uvestigron sto Te chemisty and biology ofthe pane, hgghtng the fu teen nce fren plats anal and ua hough ‘inlotrationg 1 Che soll Hall. corecting efetenies of et at det pot of orn dhe sl "o 1000 Loolsbromils,authe of Te Raine Care, ee. turned rom te Ina of Sr Abert Nowra tos ala Fan tn eaant Vale, Oto, o put Howard's agnctural piles foto practice. Working wth Albrecht, he Dowght up several we ut are ad proce’ sudan rope ith oe techies Inaprectial wny he proved that inset damage td dscase Col ‘eeontrlled wi Poe, goo plant mute, aad sound sll ‘anager Were Thomas £. Dewey to have defeated Harty S. Truman in 18, Bromfeld was sated to Become U.S. Seeetary of Aca. ture with every intention of eran the ows ue technology that haa taken command of the edncaion machine, USDA, Ee feito, and th fn pes {Truman's tetimph brought he poly of deberately bar ‘sng omnis fo nds cents a ofunessng the ‘etrocherlcals. Trough rats ereaton of the CIA sa of National Securty Counc trained forty ticks the muting ‘onals mere able. ten through the gue of foreign sl, to ln ote the: deadly chan not ony on eres, Nona South, ‘baton all the Tire World market, Sr Alberts nds wee brn used and corruptod into dosing thes healthy plats wt all 3Sde of poisons. Chemie! frie conmuspian i ia one 1 fiona i 198007 fo 90 il fos 1978.79 DES ec sa ed ape! ee aan sey a are era ne les grain iDisa en on os nso pues eiecae ictarin nut sree naam 109 era,mk Sette ‘Whute Aree was the leading sclenttc supporter of organic farming tv Americ, no modern wce has paKER toga {Gal injustice emvronmental deception and cemetery. fay a8 applied to agreuture more candy. leasly and en ‘Suny then Chasis Walters Jr, A Rana of Yoga Gersanic toc, Walters ance 1971 has eed and publaed a stag Factungand warning monthly, Acres a Ye for Bo orexure, te Bo stan bo fr esonari a eclocal “EShencd in econo by his Jesu roteagore Walter, as almost single andey fought the Touran eage of emia ing te tee, supporting intend the principle of ogra party, a concept so easy to understand that most economists Sd nana witerseachew it “simple Walter's login, “Cheap food means sec or hungry people” Graal ep sizes Pi bei tat a Kanaae farmer can no te cole fle Tee for hl pectin than the Zu tribes could pay ri olongas the ple of ood a arlrary kept belt ar market Pith pubiteation in 1962 of Rachel Carson's startling exposé sent Spreng, the pul was awaken wih a shock tate dae {prof elttaton and orgies ook on ew meaning in America. {Stat preaeure had been oon Te New Yorker maga the ‘Sienial companies oprewent her atie om beg pubes ‘Ehilegal acon was teatened to prevent Hougtan Min or ‘aig out he books accusing hero eng a Commu "Wat n 1905, De Jerome Wisner aclence counselor fo Pres dent ohn ® Kennedy. reporting a commission asombled ‘Sanne the premises af Stan Spring. declared “Use of pen ‘Ge o more dangerous than stomie fost” ‘Cavon fad wien: "We are nghly appalled ty the genet eticts of radation.-How then. could we be idiferen tthe mecrice ea etna satel ean Sate ig ee = en i ie“ al ercely rename tye SET aaa und ete tdasanaccea oe kaa ° same effect from farm chemneals used fret nthe envionment?” "fie meaning ofthis strange language, au Charles Walters was to point out in Aces USA, proved elusive, wn an allan ‘Sepust amerigo Moses, winner ofthe chemistry prize at the ‘Brosacls World's Fal, prevented certain staring ndings. ‘Moses stressod the pout (sal Lowe farm chemicals are Tadio- mimetic tn Bat they ape the character of radiatlon. The damage ‘ulin from nuclear radiation i the same as the damage re ‘Sulting from the use of toxie genetic chemicals, sud Mose, And {he use of fungicides of organi syntheses (Zineb, Captan,Phakan, tle) anmually causes the same damage to present and ftore ons 25 ato fallout from 20 H-bosnbs af 14 ehegatons Semage equal to the fallout of 14,500 atone bomabe of the ‘ronnie type ‘Mosca computed tat in the Uae States in the 19708, yearly use of toc gentle chimicals was about 453.000 tone, which ‘eaused damage equal to atomic fallout from 145 Hom of 14 smcgatons, or 72.000 atomic bombs afte Hiroshima type, And in charts, graphs and statsten all of which appeared sa part of ‘hs rusting storythe alls scent reveled that mentale tarded babies had reached the stunning satate of 15 pereent of Ive births. He concluded that damage to plants, crops, and sa ‘erty. coupled with water pollution, was practealy tcalew lable. Continuation of the scenario would see the destruction of ‘the American people within @ matter ofa generation, Mosca's full report was classified by Ue italian government, ‘otto be reveled for fity years—by which time, perhaps was hoped that sinister allegations about Montedisan. prosacer of macgatons of ferilizers. pesticides, and herblekdes”-woutd De ‘lossod over an ergoticn” ‘Driving over bundveds of ses of country roads, Waters could Sarena eae a wate cata ‘Ginette ets "ted ae siegantees int percr uid at oat erp mu ee ai Seaman stpoes seh Gens es fei SASS Reetcesyemaneacenesanaas Somer epee ingtisea cmos acnen acorn ng SES ig erst ete ancea rit ta Seen cao Be Serban cca wake a aiv Sento hese othelp noticing increasing funerals dc to death by cancer aiong his farmer friends and a host of ~serambled children tetratogenteally buthed. bodily defonined ov metal retarted Grleved by the untimely lingering cancer death of his alse. ex posed ta agricultural chemicals tn the factory where she worked, be hiuntiy ended one font page article: “Ts Modern Agia Worth Hassng?™ ‘And Walters was among te first to expose the dangers behind {he now highly propagancized radiation of eodstufs oll patho gens and extend shelf, When I saw this process proposed behing the scenes, Is Walters), Icte dorens of scentsts who warned abot some of the consequences of eating iadiated food: embryonal dams, redoced digest, malignant Iyphomas in mice, changes nh ‘organs. and moze. Since the after-effects of the coneumption of Ieradiated foods on living tissue are stills to those of direct ra sain, the relevant problems, whic include an eventual reduc ton of the resistance againet infectious diseases. AIDS included, deserved attention, But the Svengalis of science defend irradi: ton as cheap ‘That all his horror is unnecessary, redundant, and avowdabie thas now been demonstrated by a band of happy warriors in these lute fr organte farming. Healthy aid economic alternatives do fest. though some of them appear extraordinary. To discover ‘what they might be, we crisscrossed the planet up and down. To Sesertbe them we have produced this boo, along with an ape dixon where an Low to apply the knowledge, With a itl efor the planet can be ae Sram destruction by comupdon, plson, ‘and pollution. The Garden a Een isnot forever lot, The secret, to ts revival les burned no deaper than We frst few Inches of your sel SECRETS OF THE SOILChapter t CORNUCOPIA ‘one warm December morning, slstta sun sparking an the wooded fills f southern Virgina, soo us Sat ma circle looking. np doubt, ike @ coven of warlocks and ‘wits, stung freshly gathered cow manure into desieated (ow horns, ‘We vere on the hunded-acre farm of former US, naval com rmander, Hugh J. Courtney. gray bearded and easy-going i ie Due dlenim coveralls For almost en years Hugh as been devo: Ing hs retirement to producing the various blodynasae prepara tons recommended over half = centary ago by the clairvoyant Astra selentist RUdOM Steiner aba prane remedy fr our planets sickening vot By three OCiock, a the sun slanted deeper through the pine zoves, we had stufed 850 hors bought by cur host over ape od of years, from a cooperative slaughter house at fy cents apiece. No longer foul smeling ns when irs collected, the hams hnad been placed la ity-fve gallon drame of water unl the pith ‘within had rotted away. The manure fesh fom a sal herd of Angus-Guernseys leisurely browsing the bodynanlcalyfertiized rmeaows that ran down to a meandering creck Was SUpH9- ingly sweet tothe nostrils ‘Some fity galls ofthis manure led various cocks and pals, awaling proteating 9 our hoot explained how he Rat gotten Into Blodymami farming in College Park. Marylond. when he2 Semcttesi ‘chanced tofu onthe sees ofthe Reutfl Day Tein Com: [pany a hard-to did velume om agriculture wrtten by Radel Steiner. “Many occult disciplines." ea Hug, his smile angeially be: nlgn, “Speak perpherally of agriewitire. Bot this ete only one Tve found Uiat puts tall togetier” ‘Stelners bookdet indeed quite staring. requiring more than a single reading. Conceived in June of 1024 Just a-year before hhe died at the age of sty four-st came in awer tothe plea ofa froup of German an Austrian farmers woried about the pit Sr Etropean agriculture, Seed stock ad dangers degen fated and 9 eippling Increase in animal and plant disease was favaging the countaysie. Steiner repled ft eight lectures de livered inthe Sllestan own of Kober, now a part of Plan, ‘Bound together into booklet with the sump ule of agrultize, the leecures now conautite the Date and extraordinary piter for what has come to be lewon as biodynamic gardening and farming, the essential remedy. according to is practluaners, fo the planet's dying so ‘Nosaically pointing ut the danger of ceicalfertitzers nd the importance of good eonipost and fnumius for a healthy ag culture. Steiner arcipted such ploneers of “organic” agricul ture as Howard, Bailour, and Rodale. But Steiner went farther ‘much further by stinbuting the ellecdvencse of his lodynate ‘method to cosmic, tellurte, and epirtal influences on soll and plant, And so weird were Steiner's recipes and explanations, later femioraced and brought 12 Ameriea by iis Austlan protege [Sherentred Pieter. that early practitioners of blodynasmle fam ng in the United States behaved wrtually as a seret society for fear of hein accused by their more orthodox chemical eihoors of praccing wher you can give peopte”saié Courtney “only wat they are ready to seceive." Fils Kinaly eyes, magnified by heavy ors imsaed ape totes, darted from side to side as if testing the environs forthe approval af unseen listeners, "More tntrepid souls” he went “saw in biodynamic a means of working with the energies wl create and maintain ie. To them. Steiner's spiritual science is ‘Sesperatly needed hunian service offered toa dyingearth, toad nature where she ls weak iter so mary centuries of suse. And that's how fstande today ‘Steiner's decared aim, as was Ales Care's, was to work with the soll as the ue foundation of human healt Ths meant re ‘string to te sol the organle rater neds told ie fet. land restoring othe sala balanced system of ncn by teat ting not merelyas a mixture ar agaregation of chemicals. whether ee mineral or organic, but as taty Ing system, ke bie ello cigante enthusiast, Stener insisted on avo ing chemicals, cancentreting Instead on natural emposts ines ted with the product of certain ceviiying herbs. eve he = lected to help meroorgarusms quickly decompose he raw organic fatter of the compost heap into simple compounds, reaseem Bling ther into the ingredients ofa long-lasting. arth smeling. fark brown, lght-textared, friable insmus. a substance whieh, because of is colloidal state, holds its stmicare, resis leaching baelps fix nitrogen directy from the aif and increases the aval flit of mineral o the plantsthe sta of ‘As we satin the noonday sun dutifully scooping spoonful of ‘hala mantre nto conleal cow horns from an apparently endless succession of burlap bags. an associate of our host a biodynamic herbalist, Lee MeWhorter elaborated on the essential Tle of etobes in the sod, “Traltonal agrculture” he explained, “de pencis enrely upon the reveling by bacteria and other wierobes or various chemical elements pelnctpally the trogen, wa farbon, and oxygen on which plants ae nourished. Nitrogen eof paramount umpertance to life on earth 1's esata ont ent of naclte acide and aminoacids, he bullding blocks ofboth proteins and enzymes, the source ofp and blood. But although {ie abundant in the air above every nere of land, st cannot be4 sete ctmcotea, ence ie taped ty most plants without the aid of microbes, Hence ‘Sito relaton, benetal fo both pln st erode, whieh ‘Must neve deteoped mer ans Gr buon of Years tr the PD id you knew.” asked ne of Courtney's neighbors, Wil Chapin ho fad Jained usw hep wth the orn, “ht more microa anime germane ta half «cup offre ear than there are Framane on de planet, and tata ured thousand or tore of them fouriah on evry aquare ih of aman san? He paused {bier the wept of hie Agurs make tet impesson, tien added “he combined weight ofa the microbial ces neath sey five imes that of is ama every gre of wel elated {Stine up to bala fon of ving idcroorgarsen, not omen tion up toa to of earthworms which can daily excrete a tn of mle canings "With gloved hand he pared the excess mate ia freshly sted hove “Dut productnghumus”weretad ou host. raising his spoon foc empha, ison part ofthe soliton, As basic as the pre ‘Soe tthe sol of teeming mroorantam for te creation of ood fable numa tlamecely an ination that more power fores are croaelyat work, both cosmic end tele Ta bt ‘Secnce, what Stemners pol on agriculture really all ebout ‘Av we rested frm our Augean efforts, Courtneys Liz. a ceerol sub airacve tach of ramaie art announced a ‘break io Toneh, During the course oft Courtney described te true purpose of wat we were Cone preparin the fat a per tape most important a Steer remedies ora ying eat arb teary elle preparation 50," ler rather than acer ‘a potion, Our cow hora, ke 90 many ce crea concoct ‘Tastee Fees emporium, were be bused in the ground for the ‘Noten, uring which tine our hat acansed ws that Coole aed {elu infiences, ale by Scie: rma fons woul as form or even transmute the manure toa dare earthy. and oda dees subance, atid of «cup of wbich, sured ito thee gal Js of rain water, in exremely elute, Lierally homeopathic ‘mous, wold be capable of revonng ane acre Of 9 isn "he rest ofthe preparations, ss Courmey described them, 8D {01 to 508, sued arcane enough to ave Been added to the “eye of net, te ofr. fnger a bhtranged abe: ee Into a potenurng ean bythe witches in Maoh cmap {he Thane of Car. BD 501. peraps the feast eat simply square: exstal round (a fe powder It to i buried tna cow vb digo the mer, no te winter A quarter tea spoon oft, stred into thee gallons of water, sprayed in the Spring or early summer on one acre of growing planta ts fone fon, according to Steinerans, i 10 “enhance ght metablsn in the plant, stimulating photosynthests and the formation of chi opi” it is intended to tsflence the elon. aroina, aver. and eeping qualities ot crops “The next Bve preparaligns 602 to 807-—were explatned as be- tng designed stiey to be inserted nto a compost ple to help _mlcroorganisms transform i quieR¥y into fertile hus. some ‘bow drawing on what Steiner calls ethene formative forces, Cnr ‘siderably more exotic, 502 and 506 are usually treated aa apa [prepared logether the first consists blesscmns of yarow sted Into the bladder ofa freshly led buck deer ‘The blade, ob tained from a hunter s blown up ike « balloon and allowed to fy before being stifled. BD 808 a the Mower of dandelion to be Inserted ino a cows mesentery tha tenuous membrane het ‘Surrounds the animals internal organs Ite esentil. o so our ‘oat insisted, tha the dandelion be piace in the trneraide ofthe mesentery, Reversed, tts incline’ to puteely, Dladéer and me fsentery. sultabiystufed, spend the winter buried beneath the Sol, there to be worked on by the mysterious forces ofthe cos ‘os, which Steiner descroes as plating with le beneath the ‘Snowy frozen sol af winter "ED 503, the flower of camomile ie stufled nto a bovine intes tune, as with sausage meat~"a charming operation” according to Steiner and must be buried alwintr ma aunny apot where the ‘snow wl remain aver for long stretches ata ie, ‘The sunging rete, annoying tn the fld. tims out to be a boon tots neighbors, according o Steiner, asa great elvenerof the sol stimulating its health nc hedping to provide plats with the individual components ofurtion they most need, As prepa. rato £04, its buried without benedt of sheath, preferably be fren iayers of netting Iron netting, warned our host, not 2p er Iron, he explained Teated tothe planet Mars which goes ‘well with the net, whereas copper is less good because of is Association with the planet Venus—strange astrological notions aur tobe validated actentfcally by avariety of supporting sources. 'BD 506 isthe bark oan oa ree. preferably awe oak grove ‘up and placed in the skull of domestic animal—cow, sheep, ‘Bat. pig or eat. Put Into the earth under a layer of peat moss, {5 tobe irrigated with rain water to acqulee& coating of slime Lat ofthe compost tnoculants 507 is aso the spies, being racrely the Juice of valerian blossoms, 2 wid plant Wat groms abundantly in the notveast United States, expecially in Massa eset,6 Secret test Fimally there is Steines preparation 508, whieh dees not £> Into the compost tes common oF garden horsetall,Bgulsetam aavense. brewed into a strong tea tobe sprayed onto plants and {eves In dhe spring and sumer to prevent fungus molds ‘Our host, zware that his explanations were straining our er. ty, relented an Informed ste was Use to Uy the horas performance he wished to ear out while the Sun Was stl Up. before the ground began to freeze. Ford plenup and driven downto spot inthe valley bya sea Where a circular hole feve fet wide and te feet deep had beet dug nt the soft lute sl. Starting tom the center, one by one, the well-stusfed horns were placed tp dow ina growing circ int all 880 stood neatly ‘Stacked, The 1: was thes covered ith about eight ches fair, land we were ined to retura tn the spring 0 see for ourselves fow the tellurtan forces of winter had miraculously tranetersied thls cow dung into manna, ’As Courtney leveled the fresh sal on the ple, he fortuitously struck a small boen left oer from the previous year. Shaking out {small amount of dark fable matter ino the eupof his and. he Assured us # was sufictent fo bring new life wo a whole acre of land, Bt st would have to be ered homeopathcally nto Lee Mew a Wa Cap ang at Be A wn ew mae ‘Senda bn ne pn ty ete Wine ia Day Same Daye emg a ‘tec gallons of water for an hour, went seconds one way, tent secontls the othe, inorder to be “potentzed with the required forces of the cosmos” Areane aa t sounded, this too would be explained! terms fo sausty the orthodox.” ‘Back on the hil by te house ate, in rot cellar dug nto the arth walled with stone and roofed with cement, our host opened feep ins o show usby the ght of alter the various Seinerta preparations ~500 to 607—lying in earthenware crocks SUr- Founded by damp peat moss to keep them molt and protect thera fom such noxious effects as gasoline fumes or electric exrent. “The 800, ina forty-galon crock. seemed to radiate energy, while {he others lay transl wattng tobe potentzed by homeopathic surg, Sucha wid alchemical approach to gardening and farming made easier to understand why early bisdynainie farmers bal cho. ‘en to do their stuf on the qt. Buttwasa challenge tous to fd fou f and how such homeopathic wizardry might actualy work Impractice to effect, as calmed, a revolulabary approach (om ernagricultore ‘To show Us his ovm qulet method of performing this apparent magic. Lee MeWhorter invited us t0 bis herd farm in the Shenandoat Valley strangely named La Dama Maya, in honor, ‘as he explained i ofa Calforaien biecymami Hower gt he hed ‘met and married in Mexico, motivates, he believes, by some metompeyetiot Mexique past, Baerectae Senet ear onee ratesChapter 2 PULSE OF LIFE ‘One gray day between Chaetmas and New Year's we st off sross the lve Rge Mountains tothe McWhorter farm in the Shenandoah Valley. Our objective was to learn te make regular blodynarle compost and its lomeopathie sult tute known as “barrel compost” Lee and his wile, Maureen, were waiting in their two-story Ve tortanfarmbwuse with a jug of herbal tea, Qurvasiousastrlog fal signs determined 10 the sitafaction of Use. a Viegoe and Maureen, & triple Seorpio, we were led to a giventouse that stretched the length of the house. Trays of mursling herbs ay ‘Phalantes, redolent with te scent of rosemary. wormed, aye {yme, Greek oregano, galden sage, sav sani, ands del cate winter savory, all vibrantly alive and fourihing despite the ‘And so began the lesson in how fo brew the prime and most ‘important ingredient in biodynamic fang: Steiner's prepara ton 600. Into «Ave glo bucket containing tree gallonsct rain water, Lec poured ial a handful of the biack 300 enough. be assured us to spray 2 whole acre. Rhythrlclly he began to si twat a long sek, Arst clackwise to create what looked like a dep vortex. then eountercioemutee to create a scetigs bung “hace, Taiowed by another ewig rorten “Tuse this spectal ste" anid Lee” “io et the vortex to the bottom ofthe Bucket I's usta plain old stick. But thas @ cure Rueotlie 8 that helps. You have to get the outside moving, Steiner elated the vortex was the rhythm of he, that a ot of seeds hae the shape of @ vortex. This particular motion seems fo energie the ater He was siting ona milk stool, sthouetted against a baskrop of saowriakes fang gently beyond! the greeahouse door." str Jessen a minute one way before reversing When t gx ert {ust st and contemplate wht Iam dong. The lmiportant thing sto put your thoughte and determination Into what you are do ing, Steiner says you should put your very fe into. 30 that ‘what comes back out of the earth va refectlon of your cam ellor Spd spin. The foundation of Steiner's thoughts that allaspects ffthe phyaeal word are permeated nnd guise by the spiritual. He betleved thatthe sol adaiion to being supped wit te. fis, muereorganisis, and humus, needed! tobe afected by the ‘will and spirt ofthe farmer, or gardener, a well a by intangible forces stemming rom the moon, the other planets, the sn and the stars. Tm putting energy tno this srring Tinow lim turning. {he stick: Dut what's turuing me? Perhape the blueish I ate for dlnner last night. It goes around and around. the same basle ‘ythin in the universe, a pulse that Lean any call fe. Steiner {s Tight that vortex Tm looking afin thie bueket ts dvrwing the up Mer eg ere oe el ey re ‘Sime wuooaene BOSforces in om thea fom the cosmos Those are Ife giving forces not death-dealing Somehow they'e there: kinetic. potential He pained, reflectvey, then went on sireing, “Dut art hor long dase to lve tls up. sai ith a igh I's aot so bad youve got three or four people to help, Stemer envisioned getting Zig quests o do taller Sunday Lunch. as a foe of ental ‘ent if you'd Uke to partetpate te got some other sucks, and you can fee for yourselves which you prefer t's easier with longer etek You ean mace a smaller circle and get.a bigger vor ‘When the hour was up. Lee paused to admire what looked Uke sa bucket of plain water witha few dregs of dirt In the Potton. “this ts 1" he sald. “The magical potion, But t's nt all that powerful al by itself. Weve learned that its more effective on sol {hat has been treated with compost made with the outer preps ‘fom 802 to 607. ar sprayed with an infusion ofthe barrel com pst which already contains all the preps. So Fm going to mix {nto this 600. homeopathiealy, an ounce of barrel compost. It ‘all ony take another twenty mints" ‘We hd seen the compost ews referring to, dark and earthy at Fiugh Courter ign a barrel do ints the sol down by te Stream: but we fad not understood i funclon, Lee explained that ead been develope by a Gerar follower of Steiner Sarl, Thun, who had obwerved and experimented with plants for some ten years on a German government research farm near Kassel ‘The barrel earmpost wan simpler method for getting all Une Stetneran preparations Inte te soil, homeopathic Not that fone dida't want ta spread tonal biodynamic compost he added (ulely- I waa 2 question of acreage: ane had too tue land, {dad couldn't afford to mace that mc regular compost, the bar ‘elmbcure had a great effect, especially good forthe changeover ffom orthodox chemical ferlizing to the biodynamic method. “Steiner” said Lee, expliety stated that asa result ofthe con centration and subsequent cllotion ofthe prep it was what he calle the radlant effect that was doing the work. No longer the sbatance itself” ‘Maria Thun’ barrel compost ls made by inoculating a gram or so.of each of the preparations 502°500 tala a mlstire of ow manure. fresh eqgshets, and ground-up basalt, a voicane rece (Gat coniaing all he elements that become clay after dissolution Tis advantages, Lee explained, are that ican be prepared at any time. Irneeds less neubation than regular Giodynamte com post tobe complete, perhaps two mors instead of si, and Is hot ony powerful 8 &fertaer but 1s sad to put the carth in & Sate of defense against the pernicious Intrusign af radioactivity spectlly against the fatal fxaion o'strontam 90/2 in the bones. sl, he sald. 200 to the sal the cement of ealchom, an plants grown in igh caletum sols have les radioactivity. espe {ally tn Borope Suitably suere, fora good hour, the muciure of ‘ow dung and sditives le placa na barrel-open top an bot {om-which has been bused inthe earth to tesa, then banked ‘with earth to within an mach ofits top, there to spend the winter. "A barelof this compost, when fermented,” sad La, eam con {ain anywhere from fifteen hundred to two thousand ounces of the fined product. each ounce of which wil eare for an acre of land. That means that one barrel can take care of a pretty BI spread, sone thonsands of aeres, lust the essence of the prepa: rations. even inthe tiniest doses, appears to havea regenerative effet on the sod and inake the 800 more preducuve. tn a pas: ‘ure. everyonere the cows have dropped thet dung there wal be ead dings, Those dead! things wil blodegrade into healthy fa fue much faster afer you've sprayed with the eseence of the Darrel compost. I'you have a let of acreage you vant possibly lake enough actual sompest, it alone spread fet might take tons and tons. Bat an ounce or 100 grants this barre comm oot sired Inio water and stimulated iy the forces freed Unrough the compost. ean generate ailion microbes tn each teaspoon af soll You get an idea of what's happening f you realize that each land everyone of those merobes has a mouth and w eating erie fn the ground, then laying down its corpse ae organic resee, fen in a matier of minutes. Pretty soon your flds are rich in Inurnus. But Steiner, mind you, was perfect cess thatthe pres nee of abundant microorganisms in the sol fs merely an indi ton tha cosine forces are at work. I's lke Mes: they only came there's dr. Ditto with the mieroorganisms: they only profes ate the forces ae tere, And the preps mediate the fortes,” ‘AS soon as he'd fished stirring the potion of barrel compost fnio te bucket of500, Le took a piece ofcheescloth and strained {he contents into a backpack sprayer, leaving abouts quart of liguid in the bucket. “I dont want any residue fo clog my now” he explained. "Tm going to pray one acre of my outdoor herb, 5 an autumn speay. tn Steiner's day. before they invented the backpack sprayer. they used a pail and a big brah to swish the afl onto the ground. Maureen sl kes to doubt way at ‘Works fast ae el” Pall and brush in hand, Mareen Ieoleed ike an Andrew Wyeth patating as she set off nt the fel “We spray inthe autumn ater everything is clear” eat Lee: ‘when the earths sl exhaling before the around Seeats, want to get the farm sprayed ao that when the earth breathes agaitn the spring i wal breathe al these forces back into the earth “Ten thinge will come back tole. Normally we wouldn't spray in the midele ofthe day. ike tis. Fé do east Une morning Bat ‘with so ite son. the stuffs not about io evaporate” Alig siow was sl falling as we flloved Lee ito the garden to watts him spray his dormant herbs We haven't put ssything on this sol but biodymannic preps for ten years fe sald. "The fil elec of the method appeare inthe ‘course of tse fret tree oF four years. I consiats ofa continuois Increase in erty a an improvement inthe qual anc favor ‘ofthe produce. And we harvest on those calendar days when the ‘goa fs Inftueneing eertaln portions of plants and ging them ‘etter Keeping quality Our eatamere all remsarc about the beaty land power of our herb, but 1 try to explan to them that ‘comes from cosmic forces, my wife makes me hs, She says the customers arent ready for such tlle Atleast not yet (00 [ar ‘Lee moved about the asies between his rows of herbs pamping ‘alne must into the at. "After many years of careful research,” he ‘went on “the Bio-Dynamie Aasoctaion of Amerie In Kimberton Hills, Pennsyleania, produced a calendar which sows spect days (and hours) Judge best for working on the leaf, reo, fuse ‘or flower portions of crops: one works with spinach m1 lea day, potatoes on root day. peaches on a frut day, blossoms on fower day. The days stcceed each eter in cycies of nine, or just ‘vera third of a moon pened. We de our wansplanting only on a oot day, 80 the roots ean dig right m. The place (ve noticed it ‘ost swith Brocco seedling. It ales most people a couple of weeks to get them ip, We da by the moon and they come up In Uhre days: Sezyene Knew at apples re prune ad cow hors sheared when the moa i waving, lest he moon's powerful ide Falstig frees cause both tee and cow to bleed foray without healing Ifyou want your haut grow laxsrtan, you cute oly at the very moment af fll oon. So we figured why not pay atten {don tothe rest ofthe calendar? Once you tune Into the cycles of the mocn you qulcy ee te elfects they are having, even on the ‘weather Tze sinlle at us broadly: “The mechanics may appear com plex. but the premises simple. Tis planet. and everything on, [ban integral part of bot the wlar system and the cosmos every last blade of race i fected by the whole. With his clairvoyant vision, Steiner could describe the formative forces ae hey oper aeinovees” “What about the S01? we asked “ARM sald Lee, “That's for spring and early summer, When the usw 8 leaves are beginning to sprout. when the plants hive three oF four sets of leaves afd are staring to grow, thes we spray sth the sea 501. A gram of ground-up quar crystal eed Into {ree gallons of water, sired for twenty minutes clockwise, en ‘counterclockwise, just as withthe 500, makes a potentzed lg ‘id. Seruunized under the microscope the 601 won most kely fshow nothing but tree gulons of plain olf rain water. But Ka feet Is immediate and noticeabe. Steiner says t eniances cht ‘metaballom inthe plants, and timolates photosynthesis and the formation of chlorophyll. I know that I ndkiences color. ona, and the keeping qualities of il our crops. Ad you can spray 501 ‘Houghout the summer to Keep bringing ts the forces a ight” ‘ee put down his backpack whale there was sil some Ds tn the tank. “Now Il shaw you how to make a blodynam compost ple” His enthusiasm was in no way Gagging, “1 don't make them ‘ery big dont need to an just mine acres, especially when 1 ‘pray with the barrel compast But Tike te puta hancful af the regular biodynaruic compest in the hole when 1 transplant an herb, Ifyou dt ie the barel compost by the ounce you mht Ihave to use as rich as five hundred toa thovsand pounds ofthe ‘regular blodynamnic compost an cach acre. On a thousand acres youl mean you would have tobe mang tons an tons ofthe stuf. So you se the advantage of barrel compost? Luckily, once you start spraying an composting, either with one or the other. ‘cach year you ned less and less. ifyou don't mind standing out There in the snow, Tl build you asa heap. right here and now. ‘nd well lnceulate i” Picking what he considered suitable spot forthe ple, Lee {Geaned off an ares three by four feet to seveal the bare earth “The pile has to bein direct contact wth the sol.” he explained, so that te earth forces can work ter way up to affect the pe sad the earthworms and microorganams can ave access 1 de ‘compose the matenal ‘With a wheelbarrow he tt about eolleting vartous ingredients 1 bulla up in layers, Rrst one of died weeds, which he picked from the edge ofa eid, These he covered with a couple of inches of earth followed by a layer of straw, flowed by a layer of cow ‘manure “lis biodynaale mare,” he sald with happy a “1 brought here ras #agh Courtney's i the back f my plekup. "should be putting in layer of quickdune, butt don't have any, fd with thls soil It do Just as well wsthout” ‘ee dig up some thistle, flowed by some areen wotds that were ave and dolng wel“ e white yarrow. he aa, tearing Cup by the roots and waving i in the ai. Tt grows wid lke a ‘Weed, But Ive got It planted around ere: we harvest i ntheMe seabed sing capectaly for Hugh. (one of he reps that goes nto Sig Uladdee Ar we use in our rim ies &gpod expetorat {Saber of filegn anges also a Gore f make you seat ‘Geog medicinal pers ta rate of ntent you hae to how festa eect yous ookag fr andthe hes ought toe augcaly potest, aderwac they have te or none of thelr natural powers” Tee wheels Darrow to where bed thre compost ples aatcndy working separiea y thee pallet. he at was com ‘ete a5 could be sen om the shovel of ark brown, able evil he produced fom i wet emeling en arty. crt tng wi cardreor, Next to ituaa ascond pet te process Umnegradng he gure woud be rendy in cole cf mnt. She tt ple excing fragments of orange peel and cag ah ‘is clei being bull up from htc este “Pye got other smal ples of eomest ke thls all over the ro ty anid Lne-When theyre rea. ca spread ther Fiat on {helapot" He shoveled some othe ocegradg ater oo hs taro and tard towed! twa een pile he wa Du. {ng ite of ts older stuf wil act aa a state tothe newer le. But thereastartereaete steneran prep: the ones eter ep talking aboot buted to ep restricted. tm png to user than an son ate ple about fur et hgh ae hae ska™ ty akin, be meant layer of straw ae aro inal oe {Nim ew armen, he babs ing one pile from the Mercer elements, ut not the quickening ran. This hie arranged cosmetically with his shovel before using the handle to dig ve holes a few inches apart. about eighteen Inches deep tno the ple. “Inio each of these holes Tm going to put ane ofthe preps, 502 0806." he explained, producing from his packet ve tite paste fontalners, not much bigger than teabaga, the contents of each ffwhich, about 2 glam or #0, he shook info each hole before seallng ‘The last preparation, 507, alerana officinalis, othe juice of ‘the valerian plant. he poured from a small quarter-ounce val Into his backpack sprayer which sll contalne’ the emanaas of ‘the mixture of barrel campost and 500. Ths he sprayed over the ‘whole pil ina ne erie “The compost has tobe dasnp." be explained, waving the nozl, Tor it won't heat up. But it anust' be too wet, or the aeroble microbes won't have enough air ta breathe: fermentation wont lace, andthe compost wil rt instead of blodegradkng” He ioked up witha sated gin. “Come back in the spring and you see a lovely pile of degraded compost. ready to give lle {the Gol, This ple wil have turned fo sof dark rable sms the seoret of agrscuttural health on this planet~couttesy Dr. Sener, his cosmic forces, and billons or uilions of cooperative rmiroorgatsns.” “Who els.” we asked, "is farming ths way in america?” ‘Anaal” came the answer. "For that you wil have to go to ‘imberton, to the blo Dynamic Assocation of Amerie, sod talk to the man who runs it now. Roderek Shouldlee He ea tell you. ‘where all the skeletons are buried! know there azc lots in the Dakotas ancl Ontario. As forthe rest fd Uke to now mye”Chapter 3 MOONSHINE Thirty miles west of Philadephia, tthe low ying ills of Kibertn, the fret bodynamic farm in Aerie CCamphal Vilage. came inte being in the Ite 1990s, dedicated to ‘ceologcal nonsyntheie, sustainable agriculture. On a tho Sand acres of what might be the rolling downs of Surrey. Aart Myrin, present ofthe Sun Oil Company, fist gave sanctuary to Steiner early elower, Ehrentied Peer, an ants Next biochemist and pragmatic farmer, wo led the Naa! mallennium to bring his ‘aster’ agricultural message to America The od mansion house, overiockinga sprawling four-hundred. acre farm, now hotines & large group of cheerful handicapped persons ofvarlous ages frail human beings, exterinatable on Ger Hite’ genetic laws, but cherished by Stelner, who devoted Same of the best years of his ife to the aclence of successfully ‘habiliating the handicapped, Camphill Vilage, now one of macy Such institutions sizetcing from Ireland to Botawana, lao Droft venture par funded by government. We found its mem ‘ers happily attending to thelr chores about the farm, which eco omically includes a bakery. a cheese factory. and even a store, ‘where onty biodynamic products are sod, including delicous Thome baked brea and remarleably tasty vegetables, ‘Ofte Bio- Dynamic Assocation, not sign. A wild goose chase, we wondered, frewarned tha the practitioners were waty of pub: Icky? Then we met tn the wood-paneled, picture windowed . ofleshop a quiet, outgoing young man in his thirties, Roderick Shonidce, recently appointed administrator ofthe npsocation, Fe explned thatthe orginal bodynamie acreage had been ah ded by Myrin at his death ito two farms, side by side, both Plodynnically run. One was for tbe handicapped group, where iting students could also lear the biodynamic method, The Uther adjacent, of five hundred acres, ls ran asa day farm to fours the students ofthe Steinerian Waldorf School ors kin Gergarten Uarough twelfth grade. Extra income is derved by track. fing feat milk, yogurt, and cheeses to Philadephia~the sate of Pennayivania being one of three in the Union which si allows tw milk forsale. ‘Asing at se suliclency as wells health, the farms grow their ‘wm wheat. rye. soybeans, and com, along with most of thei ult and vegetables. Many ofthe fut tres, deliberate planted by Plefer in the early 1040s on the strip-cultvated slopes to Delp avoid erosion age sill bearing frit: apple trees and pear iin a well-designed root cellar bull by Pfeifer near one of the tenant hosses--handy In those days as a war time bomb shet ter—Stemers various reparations, 800 0507, lay awake in earth aware pots surrounded by pest moss, their has daubed with yellow paint wo dferentiate yarrow from oak bark or nettle, walt Ingo be noculated nto compost or be sprayed homneopathically ‘imberton Hills as Ron Shoukice explained, doesnot use Maria ‘Thun’ barrel compost, but has enough cows of te own to rep larly spread the real ting on all its acres from a series of ity. fot-long compost reaps inoculated withthe prep, od does this Inimselt injecting ples that have been front loaded nt wind tows by two profesional biodynamic farmers who overece the land and care forthe livestock. Suriss and Hereford cows. ples sheep. goats, chickens, pigeons, all prodiceblodymamle manure for biodynamic compost, t being a part of Steiner’ notion that tery farm shouldbe ferlized by the animale hat lve on I ere ating a cycle of ever-inereastng richness in sl untainted by fr gn or chemical element “To stir the 500, which is made right there on the farm, Rod tases a system with a platform ae fet above ground, surmounted by a trelis from which a ten-oot pole dangles into a 138 gallon barre. The system allows Rod to sti ninety five gallons at a time, ‘with ite exeruon, being rellewed of the suspended weight ofthepole. The resulting 500 ts easily poured by gravity nto a sprayer Hooked to a tractor, which can spray five gallons onto each of nineteen acres, Te entire farm is ferdiaed wit biodynamic cor ost ffom the windrows, lightly turned into the topsll in the Spring, and regularly stimulated by the cosmic forces released through the spraying of 500 and 501. “To these biodynammctsts, the whole earth i but a reflection of ‘what fs taking place in the cosmos, a idea that goes back Teast to Anctent Rem, cond to ther by intensive laboratory and eld experiments carried out during the past half century ‘Asan indication that man once understood the power ofthe sun's Intercourse with soll and plant, they polnt to the Eaypuan ave of the Sungod Ra, depleted with rays that end tn manipulative very twenty-four hours, sun, moon, planets, and stars, as observed by these stargazers, have a strong and pronounced ef fect upon the growth of plants Planting and harvesting a Cama Vilage Farm are done as strictly as possible in conjancton wath She Rtn ily Cdr ane eta. Sheryl at Towers maintain that ao te sun, the moon, andthe planets move through the twelve zodiacal segments of the sky they have difer {ngeffects on the earth and on the plants that grow inf Because cach day the sim rises four mlnses Iter than the stars against which it moved the previous day n'a yer it grad ily traverses the enire evel of he sodie, spending a mont tn ach constellation. The moon, in its monthly evel, spends only About three days n each. Apart rom is obvious waxing and wat fg_the tnfuence of which on tides and growing plants 1s 'n0 longer tn disputethe moon has two other motions which are said by Steinerians to affect both plants and planet. The moon's flipicl orbit brings i at times nearer and at times farther fromm the earth, ereating an harmonic elect comparable to the earths frawing nearer to nd farther from the sur in sumer and win fer When the moon reaches its nearest pin. or perigee, and a inter" moon ls evoked, the plants’ elation fo the sun, accord tng to biodynaune farmers, tendered in that seeds put down at the moon's pergee produce plants that tend tobe vulnerable to fungus diseases and pests, ‘European biodynamic moon watchers such as compost devel oper Maria Thun, point out that with the ascending moon, plant forces and saps law upwards more strongly to fll he plat wath ‘af. But. when the moon has reached ite highest point ad Degins tog down again, the plat. they say. orients ise toward the root, a ime more favorable for transplanting because It ef ables the plant quicly to form rootlets wath whch to anchor ft Self As the sap Dow weakens, 9 also a suitable time for pun Ing tees or clipping hedges. When the moon rans io of the hhorzon, echoing the sun's influence in aufornn and winter, the ‘tally of plants is sald to concentrate tn ther lower parts: te to concentrate on manuring. rooting, cutting, composting. and Tharvesting rot cops. Biodsscists point out that the forces streaming contnuly from the direton of the constellations are focused by the moon and are able Unrough ‘ts power to become directly elective tn Plant life They therefore choose to work with plants on those days wen the moon has entered a zone of the sky that especially fenhances the growth of that part of the plant they wist to ex ‘courage ‘Knowing which days are especially favorable for leaf or rut vegetables, Rod explained that at Kimberton Hills they sow cab bbage ses on a lea ay and walt fo a rut day for tomatoes, The four aspects ofa plant-root lesfstem, ower, and frat seed hhave disunet qualities and functions In cultivating plats, bo ‘dynamiciss uy to encourage the root growth of carrots, beets, turnips, and potatoes: te leaf growth of lettuce, spinach, and frase: the blossoms of thelr favorte lowering plants: and the