Biodynamics is the oldest form of organic practice. as well as good organic methods, we use a set of eight homeopathic-like animal, mineral and plant based preparations, in time with the rhythms of the Earth, Sun, Moon, planets and constellations.
The dictionary says Biodynamics is that part of biology which deals with vital force. “Bio” comes from the Greek word which means life. “Dynamic” means a moving force.
So one can say that Biodynamics is life as a moving force.

In the last hundred years, there have been several major developments on the land that seem to go hand in hand …
· the increasing mechanisation of agriculture
· the sense that nature is becoming degraded and losing its vitality
· the pollution of the environment
· the signs of illness in trees and
· violent changes in the weather

It was concern about the worrying trends developing in agriculture that led farmers to ask Rudolf Steiner to give his ‘Agriculture’ lectures in 1924, on which the biodynamic agricultural movement is founded. It seems nothing is new. Biodynamics has a holistic world-view that sees the influence of planetary rhythms on the growth of plants and animals as of equal importance to a purely chemical analysis. This resulted in the series of eight lectures Steiner gave at the house of his friend Count Keiserling. Steiner’s lectures began a movement which …
· recognises a spiritual dimension to gardening which affects the growth and health of the plants
· enlarges the basis of science to include what is beyond the normally sense-perceptible.

Rudolph Steiner said "Gardens are nutrition for the senses" ... biodynamic gardening nourishes body, mind and spirit.