it’s all written up at

http://bdcann.wordpress.com/2009/07/12/compost-tea-workshops/

or better yet at

http://www.soilfoodweb.com/04_news/calendar.htm

now there is an umbrella organization to serve all aspects of the development of biodynamic cannabis: find the site at http://bdcann.wordpress.com

we’ll call them “bd-cann” and we’ll call us what we call us… bdcga  or the biodynamic cannabis growers’ association, when we’re in town….

martyr and hero

miserable story

next step: the US Congress must repeal or change the law in question, which “requires a 10-year term for growing at least 1,000 marijuana plants.”

Realize that these repressive laws are not only applied to psychoactive plants but to anything the fascisti do not want us to make for ourselves, including all sorts of foods, medicines, and other necessities of life.

Please show your support for Reverend Lepp however you feel to do so; let this be a turning point in our efforts to make this planet worth trying to live on once again. frick!

GRASS VALLEY’S TOP COP WANTS POT SHOPS BARRED

Rising crime statistics surrounding metropolitan medical marijuana dispensaries have prompted Grass Valley police Chief John Foster to ask for an emergency moratorium on pot shop operations in town.

No one is currently trying to open a dispensary, but we want to be proactive and not run into problems that have occurred throughout the state,” Foster said Monday.  “The problem now is that the city has no regulations in place.” [*snip*]

(full story)

If you are or want to be a biodynamic cannabis grower, help us by contributing to the discussion.

• offer horns for members
• offer preps for members,  of our own making if possible
• help to develop & disseminate special preps for & possibly from cannabis
• some sort of bdcga book service/e-docs
• create/maintain a ganja apprenticeship / wwoofer (longer & shorter-term) locator service like attra’s — listings open to “sustainable” producers, trim scenes, dispensaries, seed-breeders, ganja tourism, etc
• contribute to the support and development of members’ ganja tourism / education activities: “learn to grow, learn to trim, learn to dispense, etc  the bdcga way on your vacation”
• how about a “research apartment” / time-share (s) in amsterdam, jamaica, malawi, etc ! (could connect w/previous idea & following one)
• annual get-together/confrence/tours/festival
• sponsor scholarships (cultivate tomorrow’s bdcga). send a young adult to Emerson on a cannabis scholarship
• other charitable activities… donate heifers together etc..
• support creation of  bd seed service (s)
• contribute to development of a network of bd clone suppliers in each state/province
• support production of films, events, etc promoting bd + cannabis
• in terms of education: to elucidate both biodynamics as a holistic life-way, and its realization in terms of farms which value cannabis, on a level useful to dedicated professionals
• to be a friendly, welcoming, wholistic and positive group (as most all bd groups are)
• getting some sort of useful discussion forum set-up for convenient, ongoing, quasi-private-feeling discourse among “members” – method/platform? mailing list, private forum, pick an existing discussion site, ?

Future posts will examine many of these subjects

One which has come to our attention lately, is the usefulness of the Cannabis plant as a gauge of freedom, or its absence, in a particular area, as well as to indicate things like greed, fear and brainwashed-ness in nearby humans.

Readers will quickly appreciate the usefulness. Here’s just one example: we’re having the hardest time finding a place to live at this moment, even though we’re very skilled land, garden and farm-workers generally (and lovely folks :) !), just because we want to grow our legal cannabis prescriptions near our domicile. The county we live in is supposedly fairly pro-herbs, but a great many who are “into it” are “into it” only in the sense of “something to exploit”.

Some landowners are just prejudiced against cannabis, or expect that their neighbors are. Even though all of them might use herbs freely! But it’s low-class, like having gypsies on your property. Others cannot see anything but dollar-signs whenever the plant comes up; whether that makes them resentful or exploitive depends on character.  Others still haven’t adapted to the fact that this is a legal, healthful activity, and think they could “lose their land” somehow, even though since the advent of legal cannabis, nothing has ever happened to anybody, anywhere around here, for letting a couple of tenants grow their 6 plants each, nor is there any reason to expect any problems this year. We’re not even commercial growers! Doesn’t matter!

Try this experiment: plant out 5 or 10 beautiful ganja plants in your front garden. then, just Watch and Observe!

Now this aspect of our Plant, seemingly to “disturb” others so,  may sound like a “problem”, but the plus side here is that we save months or weeks, maybe years… of involvement in a place, which could only wind up in disappointment, since we can see clearly and quickly that freedom and clarity and enlightenment and charity of spirit must be lacking wherever the blessed Ganja is intolerable.

By the light of this candle we will seek out a place in the wildernest.

Q.  Is there such a thing as ganja abuse?

A. Yes.  Ganja abuse is as common as the abuse of anything else that can’t defend itself.

But  lately, it has been much more prevalent because of its cash price, which is inflamed due to prohibition but which is also naturally rather high since people value its influence in their lives enough to be willing to pay what it costs to make it, plus.

In many parts of california and other places, marijuana-growing attracts vast numbers of people with dollar signs in their heads,  much like gold fever did, or alpaca-farming, or the “pyramid schemes” of not too long ago.  I have nothing against people making money, and how could a farmer be unhappy that there is a farm product that can get a fair price for the time and trouble involved?

The thing is, if y’all but knew, “mercenary ganja-farmer” is a contradiction in terms. Yes, someone with extra medicine can sell it for a good price.  Yes you can sell most anything in many markets, though thankfully standards are now getting higher each year.  But growing good ganja and mining the marijuana plant for dollars are totally different activities, despite superficial similarity.

As for our family, we’re “mercenary free” as of 2009; henceforward we’ll be careful to only deal with others like us, who’d be doing just as we are if there were no market whatever for cannabis, simply because we love and appreciate this plant so, that it will always be the Heart of our gardens…

Further, it’s my opinion that this distinction or one very like it must be part of what bd cannabis is about. A successful bd winery may have many commercial considerations to factor in each day just as most farms do, but if they were to view their vines as simply a means to an end ($) then that’s not real bd, which necessarily comes out of Love and the wish to Serve

Or as a friend of mine from “team fortress” once said, “if you’re just playing ‘to win’ then your playing sux”

Blessings and best wishes for a great season for the northern hemisphere!

the first lecture was entitled “stages of manuring”. the reader will notice that the term “manuring” refers to all one might put on the land of amendments and fertilizers.
“stages of manuring” lecture notes (pdf)