BioDynamics

Video: Sow seeds once, harvest all season – The process of “pricking out”

By Dennis Klocek October 28, 2020
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By transplanting and separating seedlings based on their vigor, you can benefit from nature’s own strategy of staggering growth among seeds to give you a harvest all season long from one sowing.

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Thoughts on the BioDynamic Preparations

By Dennis Klocek October 2, 2020
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For even the most ardent supporters of Biodynamic agriculture understanding the BD preps is challenging. For instance, it is difficult for a business owner to explain to a client why cow manure put in a cow horn is a soil amendment. That is one side. On the other side,  practitioners themselves express difficulty seeing the…

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Farm or Garden?

By Dennis Klocek October 2, 2020
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Artisanal agriculture is based on small scale methods. The illusory power over nature that drives large scale agriculture can be seen in a five hundred horsepower John Deere tractor. To duplicate that power with five hundred actual horses would require setting up teams and harnesses for a double column a quarter of a mile long.…

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Biodynamics, Art and Ritual

By Dennis Klocek September 17, 2020
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Artists who have worked for a long time can confirm that overcoming the trials of the two tyrannies is difficult. The first trial is the tyranny of the white. This is the sinking feeling that the first stroke on a drawing or the first strike of a chisel has set in motion a destruction process.…

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Experimental Process for Enhancing Drought Tolerance and Fungus Resistance in Plants

By Dennis Klocek August 1, 2010
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In the life of a plant alcohols play an important role in the maturation and fruiting process. They also form the basis for the protective wax cuticle that keeps the plant free from insect and fungus attack. Plant wax in the form of the cuticle surrounding the surfaces of leaves and stems of plants also…

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Tree Painting as an Esoteric Deed

By Dennis Klocek July 1, 2010
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This article addresses the gardeners out there who have a little time to engage in a practice that might seem like at total waste of time to a busy agriculturalist. Ever since I read an article in an old Bio-Dynamic magazine on the blood and milk method I have been trying to work out a…

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