Louis Mc
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- Meath, Ireland
If your neighbours thought you were mad for establishing crops through no-till...... what will they think when you start burying cow horns full of sh!t in the ground to harness cosmic forces???
If your neighbours thought you were mad for establishing crops through no-till...... what will they think when you start burying cow horns full of sh!t in the ground to harness cosmic forces???
Some of the base irl guys were at a byodynamic workshop with hugh Lovell last week. He was big on compost. Also he talked about "peppering" to control slugs in a similar way to the thistles.
A lot of very interesting stuff in that. now who's going to try it???
My dear late Dad farmed a 350 acre mixed farm biodynamically for most of his life. As kids some of the practices were a source of great amusement to us but farm produced well, the animals were healthy and the soil was in great order. He sowed crops using the lunar calendar for maximising production, vigor etc and harvested, weather permitting, using the same principles. If anyone doubts this try sowing successions of radishes and see the differences.A lot of very interesting stuff in that. now who's going to try it???
I'm definitely not laughing or mocking. I think it's fantastic. I wonder if its not working to be fully fledged biodynamic can you just take bits of it onto your organic/conventional farm and reap the rewards?My dear late Dad farmed a 350 acre mixed farm biodynamically for most of his life. As kids some of the practices were a source of great amusement to us but farm produced well, the animals were healthy and the soil was in great order. He sowed crops using the lunar calendar for maximising production, vigor etc and harvested, weather permitting, using the same principles. If anyone doubts this try sowing successions of radishes and see the differences.
It's easy to laugh at alternative methods but bullsh*t aside there are many biodynamic farmers quietly getting on with it, as are organic farmers and others. Sadly as ever with something a bit different it attracts the nutters and those that mock. I tried farming biodynamically and just couldn't make it on my own as it was too labour intensive - but I am organic and do my best.
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I'm definitely not laughing or mocking. I think it's fantastic. I wonder if its not working to be fully fledged biodynamic can you just take bits of it onto your organic/conventional farm and reap the rewards?
I think it's probably a lot more scientifically grounded than the "nutters" would allow us to believe.
But obviously if you start talking about magic and sh!t you're going to turn a lot of people off
I know it well, an excellent community project and they would be only too pleased to welcome any of you there.Go see Tablehurst Biodynamic Farm , Forest Row, Sussex
A very well run and professional farm selling all produce through a busy and thriving shop----you will be impressed ---500 acres
I think that the last time I was there I was told that the business pays for itself and all labour but that capital improvements are paid for by their extended community ?Tablehurst is great but they get a huge amount of free labour from the residents of Forest Row to help them along.
Not been for a few years but they needed the community to make it pay.
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.I think that the last time I was there I was told that the business pays for itself and all labour but that capital improvements are paid for by their extended community ?
Mind you all farmers (landowners) get some help from the local community ----they collect farmers dole which is raised from the communities taxes
I think that the last time I was there I was told that the business pays for itself and all labour but that capital improvements are paid for by their extended community ?
Mind you all farmers (landowners) get some help from the local community ----they collect farmers dole which is raised from the communities taxes