Could someone please point me to the differences between these two books by Richard Thornton Smith?:

The books are:

1. Rudolf Steiner Agriculture
2. Cosmos,Earth and Nutrition

For what I have seen both books basically touch upon the same topics 🤷🏻

Hi. I would like to begin biodynamic farming. Which books do you suggest? I am interested in both the practical and esoteric side of it and knowing myself I can say that the best for me would be a book that teaches simultaneously those two.

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Hello everyone,

My name is Jean-Baptiste from Domaine Achillée (Alsace). I am looking for critical feedback on the project we are launching.

We have contacted independent winemakers across France. The domains are all biodynamic but we are not close to opening the project to organic domains. They each create a special cuvée that they have never made before. The cuvée is vinified in barrels or in amphora by the winegrower according to his own methods and sold in primeur to individuals. We want to highlight forgotten grape varieties, vinification techniques inspired by ancient practices, parcel-based vinification, etc.

The vintages can be bought by the whole piece (150L to 500L). For certain vintages, we also offer the sale of batches of bottles (with a minimum quantity).

The objective is to highlight these creative winemakers, to share their stories, to encourage creativity and to inform the public about environmentally friendly and biodiversity-friendly winemaking methods.

I need all of your criticism (even the strongest) to help us bring this project to life.

Thank you very much!

https://liane.vin

I'm just looking for strong opinions on the practice of vacuum sealing seeds for long-term storage, and figured some of you might have them.

Do any of you who practice biodynamic agriculture vacuum seal your seeds? Do you use oxygen absorbers or dessicants? Or do you consider these practices destructive?

Thanks for all opinions!

What are the main practices you ought to implement in your farm to get the Demeter certification and how do they differ from organic practices / certification?

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Hi everybody. As a community we are starting to work a field as a vegetable garden. We would like to follow - not so strictly, mainly trying experimenting - the biodynamic calendar. As I’m familiar with astrology, and since I’ve been making my own lunar calendar for 2 years now, I’d like to make our own biodynamic calendar. The thing is it follows the sidereal positions of the moon and the planets, not tropic ones. There are different methods of calculating sidereal ephemeris, you find plenty online, but they are all slightly different; although when it comes to the moon, these differences are not so small anymore. I tried to look for a specific method online for these calculations, but I can’t find any. Does anyone know of a website that provides specific data in this sense, or has an idea of what method should I use (which ayanamsha)?

Hello!

Are there any courses or programs on learning biodynamics in Europe?

Hej! I'm going to mae a biodynamic eco community near Kyiv, Ukraine and wonder what is your experience of living in one?

Like today and sorta tomorrow?

sorry if this is a dumb question!

Hello, I work with vineyards in the Pacific Northwest of the United States. I noticed that many of the plants cultivated for biodynamic preparations are native to Europe and are fairly invasive weed species here. I am wondering what chemical aspects of these preparations/species are so valuable that they couldn't be substituted by a non-invasive native species?

For example is it possible that Chamomile, (an invasive European species) could be substituted with the closely related Willamette Daisy (a state/federally listed endangered species)?

While I would never condone harvesting a wild endangered species, I think cultivating an endangered species would be better for the environment than an invasive one.