Biodynamic Gardening Report 40—February 20-26, 2015
We’ve got a bone to pick with old Francis Bacon, who is our stand-in for the type of empirical scientist brain that has serious difficulty embracing the unknowable forces at work in the practice of biodynamic agriculture. Just because the scientist can’t figure it out—”junk DNA,” anyone?—doesn’t mean that it’s not happening. It’s not mystical: it’s just cosmic. Even though some of these special preps sound weird, farmer Ralph plans to make test piles of compost with and without the preps so he can track the results. Metrics, baby.
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