This is Part 2 of 3 of Biodynamic Composting Preparation with Hamish Mackay Hamish introduces his class to biodynamic (BD) preparations. He explains that there are certain rules to follow but stresses that it is best to just start – no matter what!
Watch Hamish Mackay who is giving a practical demonstration of building a static compost pile. He is at Rod and Suzanne Windrim’s Krinklewood Vineyard, a biodynamic biodiverse farm which hosts classes to show fellow farmers the joys of farming in tune with nature.
This is a snippet from a 1 day course : with Hamish Mackay and John PriestleyGrowing Soils for the Future – Food For Today filmed by Farming Secrets. For more information on the series please email: info@famingsecrets.com
Here’s a simple reason as to why we have pests and of the essential role they play.
This is a snippet from a 1 day course : with Hamish Mackay and John PriestleyGrowing Soils for the Future – Food For Today filmed by Farming Secrets. For more information on the series please email: info@famingsecrets.com
“It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.” So said Rudolf Steiner, an Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker and founder of biodynamic agriculture.
This is a snippet from a 1 day course : with Hamish Mackay and John PriestleyGrowing Soils for the Future – Food For Today filmed by Farming Secrets. For more information on the series please email: info@famingsecrets.com
Another science that Hamish became aware of and studied is Goethean science. What is Goethean science? “A spiritual understanding of nature on the basis of Goethe’s method of training observation and thought” This is a snippet from a 1 day course : Growing Soils for the Future – Food For Today filmed by Farming Secrets. For more information on the series please email: info@famingsecrets.com
Newtonian science prevails in our education systems and leads us to want proof that things work!
This is a snippet from a 1 day course : with Hamish Mackay and John PriestleyGrowing Soils for the Future – Food For Today filmed by Farming Secrets. For more information on the series please email: info@famingsecrets.com
We just posted the Weekly Time News of Anna & Michael Coughlan on how they able to manage 1000′s of hectares and keep their grazing costs to a minimum due to knowing how to manage their cattle and realising the value of native pastures. Here’s Anna with Graeme Hand, CEO Stipa Native Grasses Association at the 7th Stipa conference held in November.
Stipa Conference attendees took time out to visit the Coughlan’s farm as it is a stand out example of good farming.
Anna says that it’s all because of native perennial pastures and strategic grazing that they are now farm stress-free. When they realised the lack of control and uncertain future that they had when cropping they stopped and turned to cattle. They learnt that the more paddocks they had allowed longer rest periods and so the more bomb-proof the enterprise becomes.
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