What is BioDynamic Gardening?

Date:   6/1/2005 5:32:48 PM ( 19 y ago)

what is BioDynamic Gardening?

Here is a wonderful explanation:

http://www.biodynamics.com/biodynamics.html

from the website:

Reading The Book Of Nature
Everything in nature reveals something of its essential character in its form and gesture. Careful observations of nature - in shade and full sun, in wet and dry areas, on different soils, will yield a more fluid grasp of the elements. So eventually one learns to read the language of nature. And then one can be creative, bringing new emphasis and balance through specific actions.

Practitioners and experimenters over the last seventy years have added tremendously to the body of knowledge known as Biodynamics.

Cosmic Rhythms
The light of the sun, moon, planets and stars reaches the plants in regular rhythms. Each contributes to the life, growth and form of the plant. By understanding the gesture and effect of each rhythm, we can time our ground preparation, sowing, cultivating and harvesting to the advantage of the crops we are raising. The Stella Natura calendar which is featured in this catalog offers an introduction to this new study.

Plant Life Is Intimately Bound Up With The Life Of The Soil
Biodynamics recognizes that soil itself can be alive, and this vitality supports and affects the quality and health of the plants that grow in it. Therefore, one of Biodynamics fundamental efforts is to build up stable humus in our soil through composting.

A New View Of Nutrition
We gain our physical strength from the process of breaking down the food we eat. The more vital our food, the more it stimulates our own activity. Thus, Biodynamic farmers and gardeners aim for quality, and not only quantity.

Chemical agriculture has developed short-cuts to quantity by adding soluble minerals to the soil. The plants take these up via water, thus by-passing their natural ability to seek from the soil what is needed for health, vitality and growth. The result is a deadened soil and artificially stimulated growth.

Biodynamics grows food with a strong connection to a healthy, living soil.

For my own Blogs on this
and some local connections,
start here:


For my own Blogs on this
and some local connections,
start here:

http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=368


http://curezone.com/blogs/m.asp?f=92&i=368



Your Enchanted Gardener,
Leslie

#29. June 3, 756 ZM

 

Popularity:   message viewed 1571 times
URL:   http://www.curezone.org/blogs/fm.asp?i=969953

<< Return to the standard message view