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Biodynamic Farming-

Following the Sun .

Biodynamic farming is complex, sometimes hard to explain and sometimes hard to quantify. It involves many areas: preparations, compost, biodiversity and an awareness of the rhythms happening all around us.

“We all follow the sun over the course of the day: it rises in the east, reaches its peak at midday then descends to the west. “

In summer, the sun’s arch is much higher than it is in winter. In the northern hemisphere, the arch gets progressively higher every day from December 21st (winter solstice) until it reaches its highest arch on June 21st (summer solstice) from then on the arch slowly lowers again. We call this cycle one year and it coincides with the earth doing a full rotation of the sun.

“When the sun slowly gains height in the sky, we experience spring and then summer. When the sun begins to descend, we experience autumn and winter.”

During spring and summer, the earth ‘breathes out.’ Plants focus their energy on new growth and reproduction. In fall and winter, the earth ‘breathes in’ and plants refocus their energy towards the soil mostly on root development and storing energy in these organs until the cycle starts again.

Biodynamic farming is a method which is similar to organic farming, but it involves some kind of natural forces which increase the vitality of the soil. In this method, the farmers will make use of all the living organisms present in nature to get a good production of the crops or any other products being produced. The farmers are even conscious about the decrease in the fertility of the soil, which is being caused due to the use of a large number of fertilizers to keep the crops healthy. The Biodynamics is being introduced to maintain the fertility of the soils and save them from being destroyed. In this method, the plants get to use the nutrients from the soil to the maximum and hence the fertility of the soil increases. In the biodynamic system of agriculture, the whole farm is considered as a single entity or a single organism instead of differentiation every organism. The farm is considered as a complete entity of the world.