Biodynamic Farming and Sustainable Agriculture

This topic expounds on the biodynamic farming preparations principles and practices and how they create a farm self-sustaining ecosystem.

This topic demonstrates how biodynamics agriculture mirrors Agroecology especially on soil and ecosystem restoration, reliance on biological interactions and ecosystem services, integration of domestic plants and animals, efficient use of the photosynthetic potential of annual and perennial combinations as well as non-use of for any added hormones, avoidance synthetic pesticides and fertilizers, and prohibits GMOs.

This topic illustrates the holistic expression of a farm’s unique potential the “farm individuality” that encompasses soil types and characteristics such as mineral content, organic matter, and the mix of sand, silt, and clay as well as forests and meadows, wetlands and cultivated ground, flowering trees and shrubs, domestic and wild animals, buildings and equipment, and human beings living and working on the land and sharing the same environment, the same ecosphere, and the same influences; cosmic, earthly, and human.

This topic covers biodynamic the uniquely holistic approach to organic agriculture salient features of Biodynamic farming and how agriculture fits and works with the cosmos.

This topic demonstrates how biodynamics recognizes that soil itself is alive, and this vitality supports and affects the quality and health of the plants that we grow especially in sync with lunar rhythms to optimize times to conduct work on the farm and in the garden, based on the type of plant, the activity and working the soil in tune with all the influences of nature and the seasonal cycles.