Planting by the Stars - Aims
Considera aims to collect and collate results
from farmers and gardeners around the world who have taken note of
the time at which they have planted their crops and have also taken
note of the results of these plantings. (NB - although this site, between
its inception and execution, has become
increasingly focused upon Biodynamic agriculture, results from any
grower - aligned or independent - are welcomed and indeed solicited
here.)
Considera will then look for correspondences between these results and
the position of the Sun, Moon, planets and stars at the time of making
these plantings.
By doing this it is intended to clarify whether there really are correspondences,
what these correspondences are, and to give guidance for those who wish
to make use of these correspondences for their future farming and gardening.
If all goes well.... no .... when all is going well,
we will be able to publish our increasingly confident conclusions
so that anyone can use the emerging patterns to enhance their crops.
Another aim is to encourage you to consider whether your eco-system does
extend up to the stars, and to take thoughtful note and action on that
consideration.
Until we are confident that we have identified the relevant patterns,
we suggest that you follow your favourite planting
calendar.
We will be basing our initial recommendations on the work of Maria Thun, Nick Kollerstrom and Brian
Keats (Ext link).
We have suggested dates for many years, crop type, and hemisphere, at which
time you are invited to make two sets of otherwise similar-as-you-can
plantings for the different outcomes to be obvious. In this way
we hope to encourage you to join in and keep in the research. Until I hear that this is being useful I'm not going to prepare any more for the present.
Assumptions
As far as possible one should establish a firm foundation for research by being aware of ones own assumptions. Not only is this essential for any attempts at expansion of knowledge, its near-absence is central to the criticism of the dominant paradigm. Few of our scientific institutions look back at the basis upon which they build their own work or condemn the 'heretical' work of others like Considera.
Assumptions relating to the hypothesis
- We have adopted the hypothesis that a crucial point in a plant's 'biography'
is the time it is put into its final growing place and medium. This is
when the seed is sown or, if it needs transplanting, when the seedling
is planted out.
- We assume that there are several overlapping influential cosmic rhythms
that can be differentiated.
- We assume that we can gather enough results for these patterns to emerge.
Assumptions relating to the project
- Whilst we realise that the project sinks or swims on the quality
of the experiments that we all undertake, we assume (OK,
pray!) that anyone who is interested enough to undertake this work
will not jeopardise it with careless work (or by active vandalism!)
- We assume that mundane parameters can be isolated
by good experiments and analysis, and by collating enough results.
- We assume that there are enough people willing to entertain the thesis
to join in and make diligent experiments based on a commom
procedure.
- We assume that we are not wasting our or your time. There has been
a lot of research which
suggests that there are repeatable and measurable effects, but this research
is not (yet) unanimous in its recommendations!