Biodynamic Farming

kernowcluck · Dec 14, 2015

mikep said:
Could be so now as I was last there a while ago. Cant get my head around planting with the moon stuff though, especially on land like they/we have. Takes more balls than I have to wait if conditions are right.

If you think that 71% of the earth is covered with water and the effect that the moon has on the oceans, tides etc then it is logical that those influences are felt throughout nature. It's not just the lunar cycles but the conjunction with the planetary systems. It actually takes more balls to risk going against nature and, circumstances permitting, why would you? For those of you interested enough maybe just to try it in your gardens you can buy the Maria Thun biodynamic planting calendar for 2016 from Amazon and others.

You may also be aware that the cycles of the moon can affect us psychologically. I know several people who behave totally out of character when the moon is full and I can certainly vouch for the fact that, as a nurse, my patients can be rather unpredictable at these times. Nutty people weren't called lunatics for nothing.

mikep · Dec 14, 2015

kernowcluck said:
If you think that 71% of the earth is covered with water and the effect that the moon has on the oceans, tides etc then it is logical that those influences are felt throughout nature. It's not just the lunar cycles but the conjunction with the planetary systems. It actually takes more balls to risk going against nature and, circumstances permitting, why would you? For those of you interested enough maybe just to try it in your gardens you can buy the Maria Thun biodynamic planting calendar for 2016 from Amazon and others.

You may also be aware that the cycles of the moon can affect us psychologically. I know several people who behave totally out of character when the moon is full and I can certainly vouch for the fact that, as a nurse, my patients can be rather unpredictable at these times. Nutty people weren't called lunatics for nothing.

Sorry with biodynamic farming your last sentence summed it up for me.

kernowcluck · Dec 14, 2015

mikep said:
Sorry with biodynamic farming your last sentence summed it up for me.

I'm not sure whether you're referring to me as a nutter, a lunatic or both. That's OK , horses for courses and all that. The one thing I have learnt in life is that the more I learn the more I realise there
is to know and we should not close our minds to that which we cannot immediately understand. There is plenty of evidence that these methods work and are sustainable. However if you prefer to do battle with nature rather than harness her strengths that is your choice.

mikep · Dec 15, 2015

kernowcluck said:
I'm not sure whether you're referring to me as a nutter, a lunatic or both. That's OK , horses for courses and all that. The one thing I have learnt in life is that the more I learn the more I realise there
is to know and we should not close our minds to that which we cannot immediately understand. There is plenty of evidence that these methods work and are sustainable. However if you prefer to do battle with nature rather than harness her strengths that is your choice.

I'm not calling you a nutter for believing there are more things that we do not fully understand but the people who pretend to fully understand them and make it into a rigid creed. It's the same as organic and also for the die hard ' conventional' farmers who hold rigid views and broke no dissent to their views. As with anything there is a grain of truth on most things the craft is shift out the sh!t that the blinkered acolytes add to the mix.

permapen · Dec 17, 2015

kernowcluck said:
If you think that 71% of the earth is covered with water and the effect that the moon has on the oceans, tides etc then it is logical that those influences are felt throughout nature

I have no problem with that aspect at all - it makes fair sense that you might want to transplant when the water is more in the leaves, or prune when the water is in the roots as per lunar cycle.

The rest of it I don't get at all. But permaculture attracts the same sort of herb spiral cob ovens obsessives.

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