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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 nitrates and sodium. These help give the meat its red colouring. The effects on brain health are pointed to as ...
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 grows where rubbish lies. Not an attractive picture! Now that I come to think of it, however, it does usually ...
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. In some cases, it is also used on leaves. If it is made carefully, it can stick top the bark ...
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. Biodynamics is based on our being the initial giver, both in a physical sense and by imagination and intent. Nature’s ...
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 encountered a flood of Pattersons Curse nectar near Cowra NSW, have I witnessed a similar bonanza – but this time ...
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 property, or the cloudscapes, rainbows, birds in flight etc. Because of the fact that most of what is produced on ...
John Hodgkinson About 25 local folk and garden committee members turned up to the half-day pruning workshop on Fathers Day 2024. The community garden is a verdant springtime treat at present, heightened by the sublime aroma of citrus blossom. Joe and I the facilitators shared the two and a half ...
Max Allen, Australian Financial Review, 20.6.24 (reprinted with kind permission) It’s Sunday morning and there are plenty of cars parked outside the striking redbrick church in Tarrington, a small town in south-west Victoria. Constructed in the 1920s in a gothic revival style, the church’s tall, narrow steeple towers over the ...
John Hodgkinson Valerian flower extract, in biodynamics known as Preparation 507, wakes things up in garden, horticulture and farm settings. Spraying the stirred preparation over a garden, market garden, nursery, orchard or vineyard, acts like a “match” that lights up the fire of life in the soil and plants. This ...
Rob Gourlay, PHI’ON, Elements of Life This week’s national news about the presence of a very toxic chemical in urban drinking water across Australia has sent alarm bells ringing among people and at all levels of government. The community conversation is about the impact of chemicals in the environment on ...
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