Considera

Whole earth - or totally barmy?

Bibi van der Zee - 2005

Biodynamic food is even more expensive than organic produce and is gaining its fans. But can any farming system that follows moon cycles and involves burying cow horns stuffed with manure be taken seriously?

Eighty years have passed since ...

Using the force ... the biodynamic way

Lloyd Nelson - 2005 New Life Journal


Standing amidst ten-foot high blueberry bushes loaded with fruit, I push my garden fork into the ground, lifting dark rich soil teeming with life: earthworms, deep roots, beneficial fungi, microbes, and insects. Using the ...

Jeff Barefoot Poppen

Future of biodynamics

Farmers Moon

p193-194

"This looks to me like the first decent crop-yield eclipse experiment since historical records began...."

A century of biodynamic farming development: implications for sustainability transformations.


In the context of the agroecological transition, the ability of alternative ways of farming to develop themselves in the long run without being co-opted by mainstream input intensive agriculture is ...

Results of research into the effects of the preparations - Jurgen Fritz

I would like to begin my lecture by describing two approaches I have taken towards researching the effectiveness of the preparations. Firstly, the precise research trials undertaken at universities involving four replications ...

Manfred in 2018

I believe I can recognise a methodological approach that un- derlies the preparations. In the background lies everything that underpins human existence – the reality of life, the reality of death and the reality of resurrection. In other words – with time, space and eternity. We ...

Some further RS comments

"As a case in point, take what Count Keyserlingk and I have discussed several times: the fact that a farm is always an individuality in the sense that one farm is never the same as another. The climate and soil conditions are the very foundation of a farm’s individuality ...

(I'm very sorry if you get this more than once - just me getting to grips with software. Sorry. Mark)

Considera: November 2024

Considera continues to champion non-polluting preparations for agriculture through citizen-science.

The last time we reported was April 2023. Since then most of our ...

The climate change exerts pressure on the capacity of worldwide agricultural production and poses new challenges for agriculturists. The traditional agricultural industry prepares resistant varieties, amplifies the capacity to produce in protected places such as greenhouses and shade houses, and ...

Vitalistic Agriculture – The Art of Homeopathy in Agriculture

Fabricio Rossi

December 17, 2008

Agro-Homeopathy is one of the sciences based on vitalism and on agro-ecological principles, dedicated to understanding nature, it’s biodiversity, biological cycles and interactions, and principally it ...

Garuda Biodynamic Research Institute (NZ)
December 17, 2008

The Garuda Biodynamic Institute, (GBI) is based in Te Puke, New Zealand. It is focused on developing the agricultural and medical work of the turn of the century German philosopher, Dr Rudolf Steiner.

The Garuda Biodynamic Research ...

Part 2

ORGANIC MATTER.

This consists of plant debris, as we have seen, dead animals, insects, and other biological entities. This forms the food of a host of other insects, such as ants, slaters, snails and slugs, many fungi, as moulds and mildews, bacteria and viruses. These organisms are ...