February 2025
Between the Leaves Newsletter February 2025
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. […]
December 2024
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November 2024
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October 2024
Between the Leaves Newsletter October 2024
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 […]
September 2024
July 2024
Between the Leaves July 2024
Supercharge your garden with Valerian flower extract
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, […]