More on Biodynamic Gardening/Farming

Other noteworthy aspects of Biodynamic methods:

The Biodynamic system was inaugurated in 1924 by Austrian spiritual scientist Rudolf Steiner, as a system that not only embraces the living ecology of the soil, but goes further, into the interaction of elements of the cosmos on the plant community.

You could say that to the degree “organic” food rises above mainstream food, so does biodynamic rise above organic  - meaning it’s produce is even more vital and nutritious. Soil and plants are not only physically enriched, but are enhanced on the etheric level  - in effect, aided to evolve to a higher state.

Homeopathic preparations are one of the devices used to accomplish this enhancement.  Sometimes they are implanted in the soil, other times applied as a spray.

A quote from the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association:

“Rudolf Steiner presents a notion of science that says we can know things that go beyond what we can weigh, measure, and calculate. Science is the practice of observing phenomena and relating them in a way that correctly represents the phenomena's reality. Agricultural judgments about health, what to do where, and when to do what, best succeed when we begin to rely on a certain wisdom gained through observation and experience and when we perceive consciously and concretely the phenomena that induce life itself.

Biodynamic farming and gardening combines common-sense agriculture, an understanding of ecology, and the specific environment of a given place with a new spiritual scientific approach to the concepts, principles, and practices of agriculture.”

Further Resources:

How to Have a Green Thumb without an Aching Back  - an article from Insight21

What is Biodynamic Agriculture?

http://www.biodynamics.com/biodynamics

The Biodynamic Journal

http://www.biodynamics.com/journal

A Planting Calendar

http://www.jpibiodynamics.org/content/2008calendarrecommendations.html