Essential Oils in Plants using Biodynamic Preparations

Dear Hugh and Shabari, Trust you enjoyed your trip to SA and will return with more of your wisdom. I heard talk that we could receive the recording but this did not happen?? Please could you help me understand the biology or process of oil production in plants. Rosemary or Rose petals for instance…. I…

Azolla as a nitrogen fixer and source

It isn’t too clear what this ​Azotic Technologies ​mob is on about, but it looks like a microbial product not a DNA insertion or GMO tech. One of the annoying features of most of these sorts of things is the marketers like to keep the details of what they are selling very clost to their…

Ending Global Warming

“You can’t be free when you depend on someone else for your food.” –Wendell Berry News Flash: Man-made warming may have begun earlier than we thought Gayathri Vaidyanathan, E&E reporter ClimateWire: Thursday, August 25, 2016 Before gasoline-powered cars crowded roads, before even the first coal-fired power plant was built in the United States, humans had…

Farm Advisory Service

  Quantum Agriculture Farm Advisory Service—A Holistic Approach Our farm advisory visits and phone/email consultations provide the most comprehensive overview available of  the physics, chemistry and life of your soils along with down-to-earth experience with farming. Learn how to farm both the atmosphere, which provides 95 percent of plant material (carbon, oxygen, hydrogen and nitrogen) and the…

Humus Flywheel Effect

There is a common belief that humus is the result of the breakdown of organic materials in the soil. While this is true it is less than true because the organic materials do need to break down into simple organic compounds—and from there they need to be built back up again into large, complex carbon…

Biodynamic Preps for Drought

BD Preparations and Drought By Hugh Lovel How certain notions arise and become entrenched is a bit of a mystery, especially when they are wrong. Yet they do get started and entrenched. One of these is the belief that when things dry up and little moisture is available we cannot put out biodynamic preparations—as if…

Etheric Force flows from lower concentration to higher concentration

Etheric Force flows from lower concentration to higher concentration Steiner’s agriculture course is rather difficult to read because even though he sketches the broadest outlines-such as categorizing lunar forces as compared to Saturn forces, or earthly forces as compared to cosmic forces–he does not explain things in detail in ways that we with our current…

Growing Ginger: Building the Soil Foodweb

Growing Ginger Building the Soil Foodweb Hugh Lovel   Ginger roots normally contain endophytes, which are microbes living in between the plant’s cells. This means there is no problem finding the right microbial cultures that are symbiotic with ginger. The piece of ginger root you plant brings in many desirable species with it. This is…

The great secret of legumes is they carry oxygen to their root tips

Dear Greg,   Thanks. That was an interesting article. The scientific world, though fascinated with microscopy, is slowing catching up. It could get better at connecting the dots, but it keeps identifying lots of dots anyway. Many things are clear from the overview that seem like momentous discoveries down in the tsunami of complexity.  …