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Biodynamics in Australia - Part 1
7 May 2008 by Richard Hemming
The moon is credited with influencing many things. Werewolves, for instance, which like all forms of inter-species transmogrification is rather inconvenient for sufferers of lycanthropy, but hardly deadly. Unless one of them eats you. Of course, most level-headed people dismiss such moon-related bunkum as sheer lunacy. And few are more level-headed than the people of Australia. Yet there is a growing bunch of them growing bunches of grapes biodynamically. Biodynamics observes the planetary calendar as part of its holistic approach to agriculture. It is a form of farming that has conscientiousness for the soil at its core, and...

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