With the baby coming, our elopement, gardens thriving, and a home to manifest by the winter time, we have been go go go. For pictures and story about out elopement check out my wife's blog.  Garden updates hopefully to come this afternoon as the rain will keep us inside, and the wind gusting 25+ mph will keep me out of the surf as the ocean sends in head and over head waves. A book I just recently purchased and encourage any who need a gardeners' guide to their soul, Quantum Agriculture by Hugh Lovel. Something magical happens when we listen to our intuition, that inner voice we drown out as adults.

"Don't start out by reading about biodyamics. You should first observe very quietly and carefully what is going on with your crops and soil. You see, if you come right down to brass tacks people dont look. Biodynamics is not simply using this spray and that stuff, it's thinking for yourself. I would never want to work with someone who takes everything for granted.
    What you want to do is create a stable humus. Now, you can read a lot of books about soils, but the quickest definition I know of for a stable humus is 'what comes out of the business end of an earthworm.' Most growers dont think in those terms. they ask, 'what spray schedule do you use?' That is completely misleading.  The guy who's on the right track is the one that grabs me by the scruff of the neck, takes me out to his apple orchard or whatever, and shows me how he handles his soil.
    The most important rule in farming is that a good farmer prays, while a 'tractor operator' doesnt. I dont care whether that grower even uses commercial or toxic sprays. If he's devout, if he realizes there is something in the soil that is greater than he is, he'll get a touch for the land and go on to learn what to do and when."    

       - Peter Escher - pioneer of biodynamic tree paste and Ehenfried Pfeiffer's financial backer in setting up Threefold Farm in Spring Valley, New York.