Gayla, This is wonderful to hear, proof positive that high brix can be achieved with purely local on-farm resources. I would think high brix must have been...
Michael, This kind of thinking is what generally leads to average and low brix, Gayla's testimony not withstanding. I see bright red letters blinking Caution,...
Thomas, I find your comment about potassium (highlighted below) very promising, since I have excess K by IAL tests. I can imagine if everything is going well...
Michael H wrote ... I would think high brix must have been attainable in preindustrial times and even in nonindustrial situations today if we only try hard...
... Michael, while others ponder the best response to your plight I wanted to step in and help by saying that I think SRP is as natural as anything can be. If...
Tom, I understand what you are saying. I'm going back to something said at the Call To Arms seminar - once plants are growing well in soil that provides what...
Jon, I thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts on this. I always pay close attention when you write on this list, so I can learn. I...
Jon, I thank you very much for taking the time to share your thoughts on this. I always pay close attention when you write on this list, so I can learn. I...
Does anyone have experience with fertigating nutrient drenches through drip tape? I'm looking at using plastic mulch and drip tape on an acre market garden...
It rained almost everyday from February through July this year, so I expect most of it washed away. BUT my original question was about the SRP... -Jenn ... ...
Although not for everyone here, those who have personally witnessed the immunity of high-brix healthy plants to pest attack may enjoy reading this 39 page...
I dont believe this article been posted but if it has please forgive me For me as a newbie it opened my understanding a little bit more to the importance of...
The annual ACRES conference gets underway today and I, jealous as can be, am not there. Oh, well---next year. :) Anyway, there really is a magic-ness to...
This is for Jon or anyone interested in this subject. Jon, thanks for taking the time to write your thoughts. There is quite a lot packed into your reply,...
Don't you think it is possible, since earthworms live with multiple bacteria and fungal species, that the combination was able to make minerals and nutrients...
Michael, I appreciate your thoughts on this. To a certain extent it reflects some of my own thinking. I was wondering about this even before you raised the...
Rex Thank you for setting me straight on that one. Imade the mistake of assuming that since srp was a by product of a refining operation that would not...
Michael, I agree. We need to look for local sources for ways to grow high brix food. Over and over, I have gone to the Lord and asked Him to teach me how to...
For some reason, this message was sitting in the spam folder on the yahoo brixtalk group. I am forwarding the message to the group. Thomas Giannou as...
Thomas, It is hard for me to understand why you must attack Gayla's obviously successful real life outcome so vehemently. Gayla is just making a common sense...
-Myron Horst Myron if you want to save carbon and build soil fertlity check out the (biochar group) Good stuff about using sugar, charcoal microbes etc on the...
I agree that added worm castings only add to the health of soil and not fertilise it.However, if one has a healthy worm community in the soil it will release...
Hi all, I recently came across a fascinating video about Sepp Holzer and his organic permaculture farm in the Austrian Alps called Krameterhof, which he has...
Below is the second complaint I got today about the group links... ... links ... Disgusting, aren't they? I just spent nearly twenty minutes deleting vile...
Christianity was very important to Carey Reams as a scientist. It fueled his desire to learn about the soil and growing things as well as human health. In...
I am way too new here to trust, I am sure, but I do moderate two other lists. I will be available after Christmas to help moderate new members. I'll...
Hi Rex, I am a no mail person, and I don't visit the site as often as I ought. But I promise I am not a spammer. I wouldn't even know how to do it. :-) ...