Biodynamic Gardening Report 62—August 15-28, 2015 

Instead of recording episode #62 as we intended by visiting one of biodynamic farmer Ralph Johnson's very busy restaurant clients, Chef Chris Kobayashi who is undertaking a new foodie venture this month, we decided to wait until his new breakfast/lunch Kitchenette opens in Templeton later in the month. Recorded at Ralph's farm south of San Luis Obispo, the latest report includes a discussion of working with nature via natural selection to influence desirable traits in plants as opposed to using a .22 shell to blast foreign genetic material from one organism into a genetically modified plant. No doubt about it: GMO$ are not developed in the same method as plants via natural selection. It's only one of the ways GMO$ are not "substantially equivalent" to heirloom foods: just ask Gregor Mendel.