Biodynamic practice

The biodynamic practice respect the cycle of the sun, seasons and astres as moon.

Application of Biodynamic preparation leads:
 - improvement in the crumb (=miettes) structure that allows deep-rooting (= enracinement profond) plant and to have soils aerate after wet day.
 - improvement number and vitality of the earthworms
 - improvement clover nodulation

On the October 12th was the appropriate day to do the preparation 500 because it was the day when the moon was at the top of ascending. We made the preparation 500 and spread out on the farm.

Recipe :
Burying a cow-horn filled (=rempli) with fresh cow manure (=fumier) in the earth over the autumn and winter period. After removal from the horn, the manure is then stirred (=agitée) for an hour in water (the purest water you can, the rainwater is the best one) in such a way that the water and manure is energised.
25g of cow-horn manure in 15L of water are sprayed for one acre.

Into the earth, the preparation is waiting. 

This is the preparation finished. Manure extracted from horn after 6 months into the earth.

The big container where the preparation is stirred for one hour.

The radiator for keeping the water at 30°. 

It's with woodfire. Not electricity that it consider as a bad energy. 

I stirred the manure in water in a small bucket (=seau) before put it the biggest container with 15L. It remembered me when I was a tiny girl and cooked wonderfull earthpies for mum! The farmers saids that my energy go into the mixture and since this day, there are my energy in their lands...

My question was why they put manure in horns? Why burying into the soil during 6 months and winter and autumn? Why stired manure in water during one hour?
The answers was that they don't know if anything have a scientific answer. The principe is a cycle. The Maori think the horn-cow are the link between earth and sky. The circle is... The cow eats grass from the land. It eats energy. We keep the manure, put it in a horn and return into the earth. It's the best thing to have a good energy that be in correlation with all the cosmos.

The manure have to come from cows that eat grass from a biodynamic field without chemical treatments into the soil. For farms that are just begin the Biodynamic practice, Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association can provide Preparation 500.

(+ Ian and Cassie)

Thank you to all the team!