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Apr 26, 2023
Leavening Your Soil
The biodynamic preparations work a bit like specialized "yeasts" in compost and create a better final product. Are the biodynamic preparations absolutely necessary?
Apr 24, 2023
What are pest peppers?
The charred dandelion seed can only rot, but the charred seed can only rot in a dandelionish way. This means you're really creating a pathogen vector by rotting these seeds, specifically something that will corrupt the seed-forming process of that specific species.
Apr 21, 2023
Is Biodynamics Pseudosience?
What hypothesis does biodynamics as an intuition advance? That these special biodynamic preparations will measurably improve the quality of compost, hasten the formation of humus and the build-up of organic matter in the soil, and increase the nutritional value of crops. This hypothesis must be tested, but funding for research is a very different question!
Apr 17, 2023
Build Soil Rapidly
“In the early days we ran trials. Depleted soil was deep ripped. We sowed the right species and applied 500 and had the well known results. In six years we raised the organic matter levels from 0.9% in the top 4” to approximately 12% and, varyingly, to 2.4% at 40” depth. Ripping exactly the same way etc, but without 500, the soil biology developed to 20 cm depth, no further. In modern farming the right soil treatment and the Bio-Dynamic preparations must be applied together."
Apr 10, 2023
Science or Faith?
When Steiner talks about "spiritualizing" the sciences, he means bringing a spiritual gaze to the research performed using the scientific method. He is not proposing the method itself change, but the gaze of intuition must always be brought to bear on the data science produces, or we would make very few connections at all.
Mar 24, 2023
Music of the Spheres
Everything relates to everything else, so to create holistic fertilizers, we should include "a bit of everything" in a way that mirrors the manifesting power of Creation itself.
Biodynamic Preparations
Complete Set of Biodynamic Compost Preparations (BD #502–507)
Complete Set of Biodynamic Compost Preparations (BD #502–507)
Biodynamic Horn Manure Preparation (BD 500) BD Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Horn Manure Preparation (BD 500) BD Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Pfeiffer™ Field and Garden Spray
Biodynamic Pfeiffer™ Field and Garden Spray
Biodynamic Pfeiffer™ Compost Starter
Biodynamic Pfeiffer™ Compost Starter
Biodynamic Horn Silica Preparation (BD #501) BD Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Horn Silica Preparation (BD #501) BD Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Horsetail Preparation - Equisetum arvense (BD #508) BD Antifungal Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Horsetail Preparation - Equisetum arvense (BD #508) BD Antifungal Spray Preparation
BC - Biodynamic Compound Preparation
BC - Biodynamic Compound Preparation
Biodynamic Pre-Potentized Horn Manure Preparation (BD #500X) BD Spray Preparation
Biodynamic Pre-Potentized Horn Manure Preparation (BD #500X) BD Spray Preparation
