These mystifying images on IG provoked me into looking up biodynamic farming to see how it differs from other organic farming methods. Seriously. What the fuck is that guy burying?
I hit Wikipedia and discovered Biodynamic Agriculture was first conceived by Rudolf Steiner in 1924. Oh boy! He was a philosopher who combined mysticism & science. Most conventional thinkers describe his efforts as pseudoscience. He was also the guiding light for the first Waldorf School, which is a wondrous education method.
The first link has the answer to the mystery in the photos above:
Biodynamic agriculture uses various herbal and mineral additives for compost additives and field sprays; these are prepared using methods that are more akin to sympathetic magic than agronomy, such as burying ground quartz stuffed into the horn of a cow, which are said to harvest "cosmic forces in the soil".
Oh yeah. Notice the "500" on the photo on the left. That's the number of this "Field Preparation":
500: A humus mixture prepared by filling a cow's horn with cow manure and burying it in the ground (40–60 cm below the surface) in the autumn. It is left to decompose during the winter and recovered for use as fertilizer the following spring.
This cosmically energized fertilizer will be added to the piles of compost in the photo on the right, illustrating the complete 3-step process. Today is a Full Moon. I wonder if they'll have a drumming circle at the Cow Horn Burial Ground tonight & wish I could be there.
Calvin's interest in esoteric bullshit amuses me because earlier in my life, I "been there & done that". I probably went deeper into the Occult than he has—yet. A fascination w/ Chakras & alternative medicine won't usually hurt you but I worry about him doing his first Vegas show if he hasn't gotten a Covid vaccine.
