Question from Dan Mangum: I have been using biodynamic preps (including the 3 Kings) and I am getting an increasing amount of insect/pollinator diversity and quantity. I had problems with yellow jackets eating the cherries but after balancing the soil and trees that has subsided. This year I have a LOT of songbirds and such,…
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Let’s talk about carbon
If we’re going to attract the life forces that agriculture feeds to human society as a whole to keep it alive, then we have to collect carbon. Let’s talk about carbon. Carbon is associated with the earth element, and of course we’ve got water, air and fire as well. Sometimes carbon is called the Philosopher’s…
Hugh answers Ibo Zimmermann, Deputy Director Agriculture and Natural Resources Sciences Namibia University of Science and Technology
Dear Ibo, How biodynamic does a farm have to be to be biodynamic? Here is what Rudolf Steiner had to say about farms: A farm is true to its essential nature, in the best sense of the word, if it is conceived as a kind of individual entity in itself — a self-contained individuality. Every…
Hemp Cultivation: Secrets of the Soil
Ideally crops would be grown in mixed covers with as little soil disturbance as possible while feeding, balancing and enriching the soil’s ecology with mulches, humified compost, raw humates and soil drenches to harvest warmth, light, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the atmosphere.
Corn Breeding: Another Perspective
I found Walter Goldstein’s article on corn breeding (in BIODYNAMICS 232) at Michael Fields Institute to be a model of vision, dedication and precision. This is a field of endeavor that for much too long has gone in the direction of removing seed saving from farmers’ hands, making them dependent on things entirely beyond their…
Weather Moderation: Drawing Rain Using Biodynamic Preparations
Biodynamic Preparations and Drought
Hugh Lovel
How certain notions arise and become entrenched is a bit of a mystery, especially when they are wrong. Yet they do get started and entrenched. One of these is the belief that when things dry up and little moisture is available we cannot put out biodynamic preparations—as if these were delicate microbial cultures that must have moist conditions to establish and thrive. This is so far from true it seems impossible that it ever got started. Yet it did.
Essential Oils in Plants using Biodynamic Preparations
Dear Hugh and Shabari, Trust you enjoyed your trip to SA and will return with more of your wisdom. I heard talk that we could receive the recording but this did not happen?? Please could you help me understand the biology or process of oil production in plants. Rosemary or Rose petals for instance…. I…
Azolla as a nitrogen fixer and source
It isn’t too clear what this Azotic Technologies mob is on about, but it looks like a microbial product not a DNA insertion or GMO tech. One of the annoying features of most of these sorts of things is the marketers like to keep the details of what they are selling very clost to their…
Farm Advisory Service
Quantum Agriculture Farm Advisory Service—A Holistic Approach Our farm advisory visits and phone/email consultations provide the most comprehensive overview available of the physics, chemistry and life of your soils along with down-to-earth experience with farming. Learn how to farm both the atmosphere, which provides 95 percent of plant material (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen) and the…
The great secret of legumes is they carry oxygen to their root tips
Dear Greg, Thanks. That was an interesting article. The scientific world, though fascinated with microscopy, is slowing catching up. It could get better at connecting the dots, but it keeps identifying lots of dots anyway. Many things are clear from the overview that seem like momentous discoveries down in the tsunami of complexity. …
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