Make a suitable control measure, for weed, insect or animal pests using the methods detailed in the agriculture lectures (1.1) In the valley, there is an imbalance in the ecosystem, which has lead...
Posts by The Biodynamic Trainee
Fresh food, straight from the land, straight from the area where it’s grown, is vitally more important than unfresh food in any form. Also, it begins to come into a vision biodynamically that the...
The Farm Organism, Biodiversity, & Environmental Accountability
A farm is true to its essential nature, in the best sense of the word, if it is conceived as a kind of individual entity in itself — a self-contained individuality. Rudolf Steiner - Lecture...
Market gardeners have a limited amount of space in which to grow food productively. Transplanting is a necessary practice to make the most of all the available space but comes at a cost. This is...
The idea that in farming we are really exploiting the land is quite correct. Indeed, we cannot help doing so. With all that we send out into the world from our farms, we are taking forces away from...
I am on a 6-hour train journey from Edinburgh to Oxfordshire, so I am writing a reflection on the five days I spent at Pishwanton Woods, in East Lothian, Scotland at the end of October 2021. I...