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QUANTUM AGRICULTURE Your Pathway to a Enlivened Farm
7th AUSTRALIAN ADVANCED Course
17 July-21 July 2017
Brolgaspass New Earth Sanctuary Tropical Atherton, Queensland
With Hugh Lovel, Shabari Bird and Wayne Rankine
Tuition and Organic meals for five day course $900
- In depth Biochemical Sequence with author Hugh Lovel
- Save thousands in soil amendments
- How plants and Pastures thrive; Working with Nature
- Biodynamics and Beyond
- Lively evening discussions with other farmers
- Homeopathy for Plants & Soils Shabari Bird
- Spiritually Enlightened Growing, Farming
- Soil Advisors for the Future with Wayne Rankine and Hugh Lovel Phone Shabari for more info 61-07-5641-1273
- Register Here
If form is not working phone us at home:02-6636-2274
Evening Campfires for discussion and fun
 
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Develop a Quantum program for your farm’s highest potential
QUANTUM AGRICULTURE RADIONICS COURSE
22 & 23 July
BROLGASSPASS EARTH SANCTUARY
TROPICAL ATHERTON, QUEENSLAND
$400 for two day certificate course with all meals
Broadcast healing energy patterns to your farm and family,
Paper Radionics,
Computer Radionics,
Radionic Equipment,
Radionics for Healing,
AgroHomeopathic Remedies. Deter weeds and pests.
Advanced Dowsing.
NEWLY Designed QUANTUM AGRICULTURE INSTRUMENTS Available
REGISTER HERE
Shabari Bird 07-5641-1273 or 02-6636-2274
Wayne Rankine: 0427551887 Quantum Ag Advisor
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FREE PENDULUM DOWSING COURSE FROM OUR OLD FRIEND WALT WOODS
CLICK HERE
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Quantum Agriculture sponsors Hugh Lovel and Shabari Bird to teach and consult around the globe. Take a brief look at their November 2016 journey to New Mexico..
Our constant traveling companions are two bears, Aloha and Samurai, seen in their bag at Filligreen Farms in Augurst 2016
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Merry Prepstirs began with a evening conversation in Madison Wisconsin at the National Biodynamic Conference in 2012. A group of elder Biodynamic farmers:Stephan Schneider, Hugh Williams, Hugh Courtney, Hugh Lovel, Jeff Poppen (The Barefoot Farmer) and Shabari Bird discussed our future as educators of Biodynam
ics. Jeff presented the vision of
MERRY PREPSTIRS.
A free 2 hour workshop for any organic farmer who was interested in Biodynamics. When Hugh Lovel's farm sold in Georgia, the board of trustees donated money to buy Biodynamic Preps from Earth Legacy for future Merry Prepstirs. In October and November over a dozen farms and workshops occurred.
Here is our party with Merry Prepstirs teeshirts thanks to Rand Carter for the shirts. Thanks to our awesome host for the three weeks in Santa Fe, our hero George Wright. Melinda Bateman arranged for over ten farm visits for Merry Prepstirs. Pat Frazier organized for Jeff Poppen and Hugh Lovel to visit 6 farms in Delta county Colorado.  |
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Santa Fe Community Farm
http://santafecommunityfarm.org/
The Community Farm was established in the 1950s by native John Stephenson.
The Community Farm raises fruits and vegetables for those in need through sustainable organic farming practices; offers opportunities for community service; and provides a venue for educational and community development programs.
Located in Agua Fria (Cold Spring), a state-designated Traditional Historic Village just south of Santa Fe, the farm is one of the oldest and last remaining farms in Santa Fe County. A rare community asset in the high desert southwest, the farm applies appurtenant water rights to 5 acres of vegetables and over 80 fruit trees. As a working model of small-scale urban food production, the farm helps volunteers deepen their understanding of where food comes from, the role of agriculture in local food security, and the interconnectedness of the land, our health, and our community.
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Melinda Bateman, Jim Fulmer of Demeter USA, and Maya Smith at Merry Prepstir event in Albuquerque.
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Morining Star Farm Melinda Bateman farmer Taos, NM
Morning Star Farm is a small scale family owned and operated Biodynamic farm located north of Taos, New Mexico in the high altitude terrain of Northern New Mexico. We are passionate about garlic, and grow a wide variety of great tasting heirloom vegetables too!
Farmer Melinda Bateman teaches classes, offers consulting services here in the US and internationally; si habla espanol.
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Farmhouse Café and farm Taos, NM
Farmhouse sponsors school garden projects that help children learn to grow vegetables and make healthy relationships with the earth and their food choices. When children participate in planting harvesting and cooking food, they build a life long relationship with health. We collaborate with students to integrate garden foods into our recipes and prepare them with the students. Serving 475 meals per day for UNM Kids Campus, Anansi Day School, Taos International Charter School.
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Santa FE Community College Community Garden
SFCC Culinary Arts Garden Hours
During the season, produce is harvested every Friday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Garden Education Consultant Erin O’Neill welcomes volunteers to help with soil amendment and composting, weeding, and picking. Contact Erin at garden@sfcc.edu for more information.
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Meet George Wright our host in Santa Fe
Biodynamic Gardener
Geobath builder
A smile a day with George. I love this photo of George with his two hats. He also hosted our Merry Prepstirs Party.
We love you George.
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Father and Son Gary and Eric Davis attended workshop at Tesuque and Hugh went to reagent their FieldBroadcaster near Santa Fe. What a beautiful place they have near Tesuque.
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Meet Emigdio Ballon.
We owe Emigdio ever so much, he brought Quinoa to us here in the north. He maintains a large seed bank in New Mexico with over 70 varieties of this superfood plant.
We spent many days with Emigdio at the Tesuque Confernce Center and at the Tesuque Farm and Seed Bank which Emigdio and volunteers have built. Emigdio Ballon is Quechua, from Bolivia, a decendent of the Inca people. He is an expert in high altitude crops, including quinoa, kaniwa, amaranth, and potatoes. He is the Agricultural Director of the Pueblo of Tesuque, and Board President of Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute.
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Emigdio Ballon, is a member of the Quechua Indian culture and was born in Cochabamba, Bolivia. He earned his Bachelors degree in agriculture at Major Bolivian University of Saint Simon in Cochabamba, Bolivia and his Masters degree in plant genetics in Colombia. As a plant geneticist he has specialized in research on quinoa and amaranth grains and has published many articles about them in both South and North America.
Emigdio has served as an organic certification inspector in the United States and has made many presentations at major conferences on agriculture. He has studied principles of bio-dynamic farming at the Josephine Porter Institute of Applied Bio-Dynamics and continues to study and make presentations at various seminars.
In his little free time, Emigdio pursues research into germination techniques for a wide variety of crops, including traditional Chinese and Ayurvedic herbs and herbs indigenous to Northern New Mexico. His other interests include seed saving and sharing, bio-dynamic and organic farming and sustainable agricultural practices. He is also involved with Native American organizations which stress the importance of seed saving and promote the revival and continuation of traditional crops, both nutritional and medicinal. He is a founder of Four Bridges Traveling Permaculture Institute, and is developing projects to support indigenous communities around the globe. Emigdio employs traditional Quechua techniques and rituals which he learned at his grandfather’s side as a boy in Bolivia.
Quechua farming techniques have adapted to the ecological demands of the varied Andean landscape, a steep continuum of warm valleys, high plains, and cold upper slopes. They use sophisticated irrigation systems to water their fields and often preserve food by freeze-drying it in the cold mountain air. Llama and alpaca herds supply meat, wool, grease, fertilizer, fuel, and leather. Quechua-speaking groups built bridges and roads throughout the Andes, many of those routes are still in use today. Quechua artisans produced high-quality textiles and pottery. Traditional religious practices include the ceremonial use of coca leaf and pilgrimages to sacred mountains, known as Apus.
One of the most well known features of the Quechuan culture is that it is a culture that places great emphasis on community and mutual help (ayni). The social system is based on reciprocity: you help your neighbors, they do something for you in return.
Here is a youtube I made of Barbara Scott at his "Earth Battery Green houses"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1qbPzkpsiQ&feature=youtu.be
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Barbara is known to many in our circle who were part of the chat forum BDNOW. I spent ten days with her as part of our Merry Prepstir group at George Wright's community. We had some fun times at the Plaza in Santa Fe, volunteering at Emigdio's farm and Volunteering at the Biodynamic Conference. Her work with White Root research is very important work.
Barbara is a writer, a trained wildlife biologist and in her early 30’s chose to follow her heart as a farmer, gardener, educator and researcher in sacred agriculture (Rudolf Steiner’s legacy of biodynamic agriculture).
Here is her article by Barbara, Wild Yam as far back as 1916 by Rudolf Steiner when he pointed out that this one plant above all, has the ability to store light ether, essential for the energetic life forces needed in the body. He spoke of how this light ether would be vital in the future for human development particularly as it relates to nutritional quality and forces.
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2016 North American Biodynamic Conference — Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth
At the 2014 North American Biodynamic Conference in Louisville, Kentucky, Biodynamic Association Board President Steffen Schneider presaged the 2016 conference when he observed in his Sunday morning remarks that “the more mature an organization becomes, the more levels of complexity it develops.” Like a simple creek that flows and joins with other creeks to form streams that then meets and joins with other streams to form a river, which then continues to grow in size and momentum and complexity, the biodynamic community came together in Santa Fe, New Mexico, for five days in November for “Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth.”
The unique streams that contributed to this meeting of hearts and minds represented diverse cultural, geographic, spiritual, and philosophical approaches to regenerative agriculture. They brought together old friends and created countless new ones; they brought together the wisdom of elders and ideals of younger generations; and so much more. And, like the streams that flow out of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, this gathering created a whole new community that is much more than the sum of its parts and that will continue to flow into the years ahead.
With nearly 800 participants representing forty-six U.S. states, twenty countries, and six continents; the 2016 North American Biodynamic Conference was the largest and most diverse BDA gathering ever. Thanks to generous donations to the Biodynamic Scholarship Fund, the Devon Strong Memorial Fund, and the Estevan Arrellano Scholarship Fund, we were able to award $35,000 in conference scholarship to 123 individuals who otherwise would not have been able to attend.
HUGH LOVEL WAS ONE OF THE MANY PRESENTERS; PURCHASE AUDIO RECORDINGS OF THIS INSPIRING CONFERENCE HERE.
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Shabari Bird is a hot spring addict. I have traveled the globe in pursuit of hot and hotter springs. I will share a few with you that we visited in New Mexico. Next month I will share with you Colorado's powerful healing hot springs. Enjoy below:
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SIX MILES NORTHWEST OF LAS VEGAS, THE WARM, HEALING, MINERAL-CHARGED POOLS OF MONTEZUMA HOT SPRINGS ARE ONE OF MOTHER NATURE’S MYRIAD BLESSINGS FOUND IN NORTHERN NEW MEXICO.
Centuries ago native warriors healed their wounds in these springs after battle. It’s said that Jesse James and Billy the Kid probably spent an evening or two relaxing after hours of throwing cards in an old adobe nearby. Visitors to the luxurious Montezuma Hotel in the 1890’s came for the precious minerals in rejuvenating waters advertised in promotional books published by the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway –
“EVEN IMAGINARY AILMENTS GIVE WAY BEFORE FORCES SO POTENT FOR GOOD.”
Today the bubbling springs are captured in open-air cement pools that still remain long after the closing of the Montezuma Hotel. The Hotel, in eyeshot of the pools, now serves as the administration building of the United World College – USA. It’s a beautiful setting, as the springs lie along the Gallinas River and are adjacent to several historic buildings.
Although located on private property, UWC allows free public access to the springs, maintains regulations for using the tubs and sees they are kept clean. Bathing suits are required.
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Spence is undeveloped save for the formation of rock pools. It’s in a pretty location that feels further than the quarter-mile it is from the highway.
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OJO CALIENTEI
Sulphur-free, geothermal mineral waters have flowed from a subterranean volcanic aquifer for thousands of years. Ojo is the only hot springs in the world with four different types of mineral water including lithia, iron, soda and arsenic. Over 100,000 gallons come to the surface, revitalizing those who soak in these legendary, healing waters. Our eleven pools are filled with different types and combinations of these waters with temperatures ranging from 80-109 degrees.
All of the Springs and the Spa are a Whisper Zone so that guests can have a quiet peaceful experience at this unique retreat.
THE LITHIA SPRING
Lithia water is believed to relieve depression and aid digestion. Though the historic Lithia Pump, located in the heart of the Springs, is no longer in service, our guests will be happy to know that the Lithia Pool is open!
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My beloved step daughter Julie Lehua Bird and her daughter Sage took me to Montezuma Hotsprings and introduced me to the extraordinary Dwan Light Sanctuary.
Designed as a place for reflection by Virginia Dwan, Charles Ross, and Laban Wingert in 1996, the circular building features 12 large prisms in the apses and ceiling which spread rainbows across the floor and walls of the interior.
Judy Collins helped inaugurate the Dwan 19 years ago by singing "Amazing Grace" at the opening ceremony. Since then, the Dwan has served as a site for concerts – including Philip Glass in 2012 – as well as weddings, memorials, and other events. It was recently featured as one of New Mexico Magazine's "most romantic places."
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I was so delighted to visit with my friend of 45 years, Jaya Bear at her lovely home in Taos. Jaya is the widow of my late teacher and friend Sun Bear. She guides people on Spirit Journeys in Peru and Bali.
Check out her website:
http://www.pumashamanicjourneys.com/
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