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by Mark
18 Feb 2025, 11:35
Forum: BD diagnosis
Topic: Relevant post copied from MO of preps
Replies: 0
Views: 175

Relevant post copied from MO of preps

The Preparations

Glen Atkinson

Most BD practitioners generally see the compost preparations as being used as soil and growth regulators, with a vague sense they work on more subtle levels as well. Most recently their activity was publicly described as being due to their bacterial and enzyme ...
by Mark
18 Feb 2025, 10:32
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Various authors on the MO of preps
Replies: 22
Views: 26838

Intention

From the same publication as above

"I feel that the love and connection and wanting to do something good for my soil and plants, infuses my preparations with
a special energy of care and wholesomeness that is ideal for my own piece of land. Otherwise, it's like a foreign body."

Highlighting the ...
by Mark
17 Feb 2025, 14:24
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: Preps are for what?
Replies: 0
Views: 445

Preps are for what?

THE PREPARATIONS AS A PATH OF INDIVIDUALIZATION

Beyond the original impulse, many biodynamic farmers around the world are looking for a more individualized path with their preparations.

In many places, the search for an alternative path with the preparations is initially driven by contextual ...
by Mark
17 Feb 2025, 14:17
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Various authors on the MO of preps
Replies: 22
Views: 26838

Re: Various authors on the MO of preps

Biodynamic Preparations across the World Understanding challenges, alternative practices and new meanings

Most ... thought that the effects of the preparations were not perceptible in a tangible way - or at least it was not what they considered to be the only way to understand how the ...
by Mark
17 Feb 2025, 14:01
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Flexibility from Dornach
Replies: 1
Views: 239

Potencies

POTENTIZED PREPARATIONS

Interest in the experimentation with Biodynamic preparation in potentized forms has grown in the search for greater efficiency in the application and storage of preparations, quality unification, solutions for applying preparations on large surface areas, and working with ...
by Mark
17 Feb 2025, 13:37
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Flexibility from Dornach
Replies: 1
Views: 239

Flexibility from Dornach

Biodynamic Preparations across the World Understanding challenges, alternative practices and new meanings
Maria Paz Bernaschina and Andrea D'Angelo.


THE BACKGROUND
In the 100 years since Rudolf Steiner's first impulse, the biodynamic movement has spread throughout the world. Today there are 46 ...
by Mark
15 Feb 2025, 22:27
Forum: General
Topic: Organic wine conference
Replies: 0
Views: 802

Organic wine conference

Organic & Biodynamic Winegrowing Conference

Unfortunately it's in New Zealand - unless you live there in which case - fortunately it's in New Zealand.
by Mark
14 Feb 2025, 23:41
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: BD business
Replies: 0
Views: 1059

BD business

Biodynamic Farms Are One Thing. What About Biodynamic Businesses?
Kathleen Willcox

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. You want to make planting ...
by Mark
14 Feb 2025, 12:25
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Rudolf Steiner on potentisation
Replies: 2
Views: 9415

Re: Rudolf Steiner on potentisation

More from RS

Anthroposophical Spiritual Science and Medical Therapy GA 313 Lecture VII

At this point I would like to interject something. I believe the never-ending conflict between homeopathy and allopathy will not be set right until one is able to enter into a study of man's constitution as ...
by Mark
12 Feb 2025, 18:04
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: Farm organism
Replies: 0
Views: 1506

Farm organism

The farm as a living whole
Bind R, Hurter U; (2025) From the Agriculture Course to Sustainable Farming: 100 Years of the Biodynamic Movement Floris Books - ISBN 9781782509424

One of the key ideas of biodynamic agriculture is that of the 'farm organism' as a living whole. Rudolf Steiner even ...
by Mark
11 Feb 2025, 21:19
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: The Living Soil
Replies: 0
Views: 1689

The Living Soil

Towards a Sustainable Agriculture - The Living Soil - Eve Balfour


By Lady Eve Balfour
An address given by the late Lady Eve Balfour, author of the organics classic "The Living Soil and the Haughley Experiment", to an IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) conference in ...
by Mark
11 Feb 2025, 14:31
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: The Importance of Winter
Replies: 0
Views: 1668

The Importance of Winter

The Importance of Winter
By Hugh Lovel

Most of us have covered up a patch of sod in late autumn, only to find it ready to take off growing again in spring. However, in summer if we cover the same patch of sod up, it is dead and decaying in less than a month. What goes on in winter that is so ...
by Mark
11 Feb 2025, 14:30
Forum: Scrapbook
Topic: The Science of Biodynamic Agriculture
Replies: 0
Views: 1608

The Science of Biodynamic Agriculture

The Science of Biodynamic Agriculture
By Hugh Lovel

Biodynamic Agriculture is a comprehensive method of self-sufficient agriculture that produces exceedingly nutritious food. It grew out of Rudolf Steiner’s agriculture lectures which were given in response to the chemical methods introduced in ...
by Mark
11 Feb 2025, 14:29
Forum: Peppers: potentised and traditional
Topic: Hugh Lovel on peppers
Replies: 0
Views: 1596

Hugh Lovel on peppers

Peppering: Controlling Weeds and Pests

Control is not a synonym for kill. It is one thing to control a lawn mower, and another thing to kill it. When we seek to control weeds we need find out what gets them started and how they may change under various circumstances. This will help us understand ...
by Mark
11 Feb 2025, 14:28
Forum: Preparations: potentised and traditional
Topic: Clay preparation
Replies: 12
Views: 39332

Re: Clay preparation

]The Discovery of Horn Clay and Biodynamics[/b]
By Hugh Lovel

With thousands of lectures and uncounted insights Rudolf Steiner launched anthroposophy as a study of human wisdom. With extraordinary learning in both the classics and modern science, Steiner combined his immense erudition with innate ...