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[https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/yield-magical-thinking-better-agriculture-through-cosmic-rituals/ by MotherJones] | [https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2007/10/yield-magical-thinking-better-agriculture-through-cosmic-rituals/ by MotherJones] | ||
The making of Preparation 503 began just after dawn on a cold October morning at Stephen Decater’s Live Power Community Farm. As the sun rose over Northern California’s bucolic Round Valley, Decater waited near the barn where an 18-month-old Angus cross named Red was chewing his last breakfast. Although he seemed relaxed, this was a solemn affair for the 59-year-old Decater, who’s spent the last 23 years running his family’s 40-acre farm under the principles of biodynamics, an alternative organic farming method that attaches near-religious significance to otherwise mundane activities such as planting, harvesting, and slaughter. | The making of Preparation 503 began just after dawn on a cold October morning at Stephen Decater’s Live Power Community Farm. As the sun rose over Northern California’s bucolic Round Valley, Decater waited near the barn where an 18-month-old Angus cross named Red was chewing his last breakfast. Although he seemed relaxed, this was a solemn affair for the 59-year-old Decater, who’s spent the last 23 years running his family’s 40-acre farm under the principles of biodynamics, an alternative organic farming method that attaches near-religious significance to otherwise mundane activities such as planting, harvesting, and slaughter. | ||
=====Shoot for the moon: Can planting by the lunar calendar help a garden grow? Emma Townshend sees moon-power in action in Sussex===== | |||
[https://www.independent.co.uk/property/gardening/shoot-for-the-moon-can-planting-by-the-lunar-calendar-help-a-garden-grow-emma-townshend-sees-moonpower-in-action-in-sussex-759459.html by INDEPENDENT 17/12/06] | |||
Oh, how times change, honestly. The other day I was trying to do some Christmas shopping in Selfridges and I realised that even in that temple of consumerism you can now buy biodynamic. Dr Haushka products are available on the beauty floor, with all their extraordinary scents and strict biodynamic planting principles; and then I spotted, from my position in the nearby Muji concession, that London's most glamorous store is now stocking copies of Gardening and Planting by the Moon 2007, by Nick Kollerstrom. | |||
