“No creature, not even swine, befouls its nest with such abandon as does homo sapiens, poisoning his habitat with fiendishly concocted chemicals and their deadly waste.” From the Introduction in Secrets Of The Soil Healthy soil is essential for the production of healthy food, and healthy food is critical for a healthy body. We cannot [...]
In May last year I posted an article, Back To The Garden To Feed The World, in which I explained how the cultivation of small gardens would be sufficient to provide enough fresh food to feed everyone. If we understand the principles in biodynamic gardening, the concept that multitudes of small gardens can feed the [...]
If you love to garden, there is no reason to be limited by the seasons when you can have a greenhouse for gardening all year round. You can enjoy plant production in a greenhouse that often exceeds the yields from a summer garden. We cannot control the extreme climate a summer can bring with heat [...]
Sustainable agriculture is a unique "spiritual" scientific approach to nature and all life. The natural environment is understood within a much larger picture than modern science which tends to view the natural world from a smaller and limited perspective. Within nature, every little detail is of great significance, and points to a more expansive interconnection. [...]
In many parts of the country, the soil is very dense and heavy making it a challenge to dig deep for garden beds. You will want to use a rototiller for a large garden area, and the same method below can be used to create beds in a large garden after the soil has been [...]
One of the most vital concepts in biodynamic gardening involves the natural cosmic rhythms, and thus planting by the Moon cycles is key. Planting according to lunar phases goes back to ancient agriculture, and this understanding was further expounded on by Rudolph Steiner in the 1920s with his deep cosmic knowledge of how these lunar [...]
