Biodynamic Farming

While the world trend of transition to organic agriculture is fostered by the growing demand for organic food, many farmers still hesitate to switch to sustainable organic farming worrying about the yields decline normally experienced during transition period and being pressured by aggressive marketing of agrochemical producers. The latter challenge is not always a matter of choice for farmers but rather a financial trap they have been lured into. And, biodynamics can only help farmers who are ready for an efficient transition from chemical to more effective and sustainable organic farming technologies.

That farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself. I believe the same thing of a nation.
- Speech by Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States 1901-1909

Biodynamics is sometimes described as a philosophical teaching or even a spiritual movement. And, even though, biodynamics might seem extraordinary to somebody, biodynamic farming is based on very practical and proven organic techniques of soil revitalization,  soil natural fertilization, stimulation of crops resistance to unwanted bacteria and diseases and organic stimulation of crops vegetation which had been practiced by many generations of farmers.

Since biodynamic farming is the real alternative to chemical farming with biodynamic technologies being fully ecological, as well as economically and environmentally sustainable, it gives no financial interest to the agrochemical companies who have used now to play an active role in conventional farming in part of the risk-free profit making which can only occur in agriculture.

The period of farming industrialization has changed the minds of a lot of farmers under the influence of aggressive marketing by agrochemical corporations which made farmers dependent on agrochemical products such as pesticides (which they prefer to call crop protection products), herbicides and growth hormones. Moreover, many farmers have lost control over the primary farming concept, reproduction of harvested crops, with the use of imposed through aggressive marketing tricks genetically modified seeding materials.

Biodynamic preparations are based on natural components which have been used in agriculture for many centuries. The biodynamic technology makes farm ecologically and economically sustainable making them real owners of the inputs and outputs of all their farming activities. The use of biodynamic methods can be compared to therapy methods by which natural biological qualities of soil and its major parameter, fertility, are restored to the level of sustainable  balancing.

No wonder, healthier soil can produce at the full capacity of its agro-ecological potential, thus seriously outperforming conventional chemical agriculture in a more efficient and natural manner. But even more, through the independent use of biodynamic methods any farmer can truly be a “good farmer” and leave a better land to benefit the new generations.