Question from Dan Mangum: I have been using biodynamic preps (including the 3 Kings) and I am getting an increasing amount of insect/pollinator diversity and quantity. I had problems with yellow jackets eating the cherries but after balancing the soil and trees that has subsided. This year I have a LOT of songbirds and such,…
How to use radionics for your farm
Setting Up an Agricultural Enterprise By Hugh Lovel At The Start Plan Part of this mix is maps, soil tests and a wide range of studies to fund the imagination and attainment of skills. The other part is inspiration, desire and initiative. Build that most important capital item–soil fertility and robust ecology. This…
The Discovery of Horn Clay and Biodynamics
By Hugh Lovel With thousands of lectures and uncounted insights Rudolf Steiner launched anthroposophy as a study of human wisdom. With extraordinary learning in both the classics and modern science, Steiner combined his immense erudition with innate clear seeing gifts to forge a vision of the world that at once was both spiritual and scientific….
Life Processes Through the Elements Warmth, Light
The sulphur warmth process: Ever at work at the surfaces of things, sulphur, as sulphate, infiltrates the interstices between the soil’s colloidal particles and exposes their surfaces. In short, sulphur is the ‘open sesame’ to the soil’s mineral storehouse. The silica light process: Always at work in the boundaries, silicon, along with light, is…
Finest Wool on the Planet
In 1987 my late husband, Christopher Bird, whose passion was bringing frontier science to the fore, travelled for months in Australia researching for his book “Secrets of the Soil” which he co-authored with Peter Tomkins. This led him to a deeper understanding of Biodynamic Agriculture. Also in 1969 and again in 1987 Chris interviewed scientist/inventor…
Biodynamic Banana Culture
By Hugh Lovel The first biodynamic banana farm I consulted for was in Innisfail, Far Northern Queensland in 2005. It was a bit upland on the coastal side of the Dividing Range with good rainfall and awesome red basalt soils. The grower showed me a picture from his first banana harvest 40 years previously where…
Bees and Love within the Hive quotes from Rudolf Steiner Nine Lectures on Bees
the bees surrender themselves entirely to Venus, unfolding a life of love throughout the whole hive. This life will be filled with wisdom; you can well imagine how wise it must be! I have already told you various things about the reproductive process and the unconscious wisdom contained in it. This unconscious wisdom is unfolded…
Let’s talk about carbon
If we’re going to attract the life forces that agriculture feeds to human society as a whole to keep it alive, then we have to collect carbon. Let’s talk about carbon. Carbon is associated with the earth element, and of course we’ve got water, air and fire as well. Sometimes carbon is called the Philosopher’s…
Secrets of the Soil: New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet
Quantum Agriculture is now the sole wholesale distributor of Secrets of the Soil: New Solutions for Restoring Our Planet written in 1989 by Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird. This book tells the fascinating story of the innovative, nontraditional, often surprising things that certain scientists, farmers, and mystics are doing to save our planet from self-destruction – such…
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