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 a long time. Sometimes a small percentage of other materials are put with it and then it […]
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 manifestation via reproduction and growth (cocreation) then […]
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 it is happening for my sedentary colonies […]
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 a farm is for sale, it pays […]
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 hours of theory and practice. The garden […]
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 surrounding wide, flat farming landscape. […]
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 is what we call its […]
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 people’s health. Albeit many chemicals […]
Ueli Hurter, 06/04/2024 Ueli Hurter was invited as a guest speaker to various anniversary events in Australia and New Zealand from 1 to 16 May 2024. Learn about how biodynamics has developed “Down Under” in recent years and the challenges it currently faces in the following travel report. New Zealand After initial meetings and visits, […]
The difference between “ordinary” compost and “biodynamic” compost is the insertion of the biodynamic compost preparations into the heap when it is fully built. These preparations, developed by Rudolf Steiner, amplify Earth and cosmic energies, enlivening the decomposition process and leading to much richer compost.All crops need soil that will maintain and sustain the humus […]
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