December 2023
Between the Leaves – December 2023
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November 2023
Between the Leaves – November 2023
Ten ways to make water go further
John Kersten, November 2023 I have 200 fruit trees in a dry part of Australia and this is what I do to make water go further. 1. SIMPLEST WATERING SYSTEMI draped rope strand from an old mop into a bucket of water. It wicked 7cm (2.5”) up the rope and started dripping over the edge […]
Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture
Anna Pigott, Swansea University, UK AbstractIn this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual knowledge practices rarely sit comfortably alongside technoscientific, productivist accounts of soil health, and yet they can reconfigure how soils are conceptualised and managed, […]
Nature
Goethe Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms. She creates new forms without […]
October 2023
Between the Leaves – October 2023
The Abstract Predicament
Dennis Klocek, Seeking Spirit Vision, 1998, pp 33-34, with kind permission The perception of beauty in nature is the grounding agent that allows the life of creativity pouring from the Godhead to reach our souls. This perception must be distilled, however, like a precious substance whose presence as a fragrance signals its own evaporation. The perception of […]
Mango Magic at Kumbartcho
Shane Joyce Today I’m out re-setting one of my Syntropic Agroforestry plots. Resetting (aka pruning) eucalyptus, casuarina, cassava, etc. Creating a growth pulse for mulberry, citrus, mango, pomegranate. Also digging “ponds” up slope from fruit trees, and filling with biochar. The pond then has a short contour which harvests water. Water and fertility then goes deep under the trees encouraging […]
Biodynamic Agriculture & Anthroposophy course
Section for Agriculture, Goetheanum Our gift for the 100th anniversary: free participation Course description Through deepening into anthroposophy, biodynamic agriculture can be experienced in a truly fruitful way. Anthroposophy develops an image of the human being, whereby the human being – completely connected with the soil, plants, animals and the climate – is able to penetrate […]
Hello rain
Shane Joyce I’m in a “preppers” mode. Yes, now that La Nina and the wet years are behind us, and all the predictions are for El Nino to take centre stage…I’ve moved into “Prepare for low rainfall years!” frame of mind. So what does the proactive biodynamic farmer/gardener do to prepare? Let’s do it biodynamic […]