February 2025
Between the Leaves Newsletter February 2025
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Update on meat eating
A recently released study published in the journal Neurology has pointed out the dangers of processed meats and their link to a higher dementia risk due to the inclusion of […]
The stinging nettle
Olaf Lampson, Bio-Dynamics, Summer 1980 Known as an obnoxious weed, the stinging nettle; it is hard to kill; it does not even have a flower worth looking at; and it […]
Making the biodynamic tree spray and tree paste
Peter Escher, Biodynamics Journal, No. 157, Winter 1986, reprinted with kind permission. The biodynamic tree spray or paste is used extensively for trees, shrubs and berries on trunk and twig. […]
Teasing out the reality of biodynamics
John Hodgkinson Nature is an altruistic giver. We do not receive an invoice for payment from the soil; nor from a wheat crop or a cow or a tomato plant. […]
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Bee news from Bellingen
John Hodgkinson This spring is proving to be one of the best bee seasons in the Bellinger Valley for many years. Not since 1984 when a truckload of my beehives […]
Beauty and Biodynamics
John Hodgkinson One concept not frequently addressed in agriculture is ‘beauty’. That is, apart from the scenery and views from the farmhouse windows or from various vantage points around the […]