What is biodynamic agriculture?
Based upon Lecture Series given by Dr. Rudolph Steiner in 1924, the original Biodynamic Farm Standard is a comprehensive organic farming method that requires the farmers to reconnect with the Spiritual side of Nature and co-create and manage the farm as a closed-spherical-system (Microcosm), exactly like our Earth, (Macrocosm) preceding the USDA NOP organic standards by decades. Biodynamic farming practices are Self-generating, meeting all of its fertility and regenerative needs from the Living Dynamics of the Farm itself.
Our hope is to encourage a new image-based-belief-reality, experiencing Nature and all of Her kingdoms as an interconnected whole. A complete living organism/entity (the Holy Spirit Herself). Endowed with archetypal pulses and rhythms that travel throughout the Ley Lines and Vortices Hubs, (aka. Indian Burial Mounds) throughout of Her living neural networks of Creation. We harmonize our efforts with her twin sister, ‘Grace’ “the Moon has dominion over water on Earth” and the Stars/Constellations, (regionally, our very own Sun). The distant Constellations-Astrological signs, elementally influence the forces of creation here on Earth. These ‘Forces’ are amplified in concert with the waxing, (/\ to the Full Moon) or waning, (\/ to the New Moon) gravitational forces that influence the flow of all water/life in all living-Earth-systems. A key of this ‘Alchemy’ is the timing of things, specifically as it relates to coalescence above our farms location here in Detroit.
ROI Urban Farms practice Dr. Steiner’s “Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture” and record our findings via the Scientific Method, truth in numbers Honour of the ROC and Senator Thomas Palmer 33-degree GAR '“Guardian of the Light”.
Intelligence and nutrition are inexplicably linked, our hope is to infuse and enshrine this ‘Intelligence’ as a gift to all local kids.
We encourage and inspire Nature’s Kingdoms to find sanctuary with us at all of our locations, so that “we may delight in their divine presence in support of their purpose, “to help build up and form the plants”. For us the ideal model of a complete living ecosystem liek you would find in, “a Virgin Forest”. In such a eco-system there is a high degree of self-sufficiency for, “all biological inputs/outputs and survival is interdependently connected”. Choosing to practice our work in Palmer Park Detroit, (next to the largest virgin forest within 30 miles of any major US city Detroit), was a perfect fit in accordance with Dr. Steiner’s 1924 recommendations. “Fertility and feed arise out of recycling organic material that the Forest- Farm-Local-Horse system generates”. Virgin Oak leaf tissue, volumetrically 1000 of cubic meters, is blended with locally sourced Horse manure that has been inoculated with “the biodynamic compost preparations #502-#507”. We combine these elements in harmony with the Spring or Fall equinox’s, “About 3-weeks before to about 3-weeks after each event” D. Klocek 2016, working with the Moon and Stars in Unity so as to create a well spring of Fertility is Creation. Pest/species/insect/fungus are kept at bay by the virtue of the farm’s Living Vitality. This Fertility, with its intense organic genetic diversity, enhances the biological vigor of all plants and naturally keeps the pest away-at bay. We are convinced that all disease, (insect infestations mold etc..) are part of Mother Nature’s survival-of-the-fittest-divine-regenerative-designed-system. They are summoned into action by plants that are weak or suffering as a natural response to a signal of distress, given off by all plants as they are suffering. Typically this is caused by the soil’s lack of Fertility. These “pests” are part of the Kingdoms of Nature that are purposed with the task of Regeneration/Natural selection which dictates that all weak or subordinate species must fall down to help rebuild the living soil biology, keeping it alive and well fed.
We recognize that regeneration and sustainability are what SHE Mother Nature does best!
Rural farming fails with the end of fossil fuel and will soon be challenged by having to pay for watering Monocrops. The West Coast is burning, Aquifers are drying up or have become contaminated with PFAS. In 2009 our hope was to meet the world here in Detroit in 2020, we shot an arrow out into the future with Detroit/Palmer Park being our “Bullseye”. With our ROI-Biodynamic Detroit based system, outside watering is rarely required and relies primarily on Rainwater that is efficiently absorbed and held onto by our living compost blends. Food-as/is-medicine produced from this model are naturally filled with Nutritive Density = Elemental Weight. True to its essence, the food and medicinal products we grow provide Health and Vitality, essential for improving an increasingly unhealthy-single-use-plastic-drive-thru-door-dash-fast-food-nation.
The heart of the Regenerative-Biodynamic Farm’s fertility system is the recycling and sequestering of the carbon that it creates, in essence a cradle-to-cradle solution. Crop rotation and integration of herbivore animal manure, assist in ELIMINATING any and all petrochemical inputs as compared to ‘Conventional Agricultural’ practices, which contaminate, kill, and erode the land into the watershed, which is devastating to future generations, (think Round UP, red tides, algae blooms and the Great lakes Watershed where we live). These factors, in addition to Regenerative-Biodynamic farming’s focus on improving soil health, pure water quality and biodiversity combine to make it the world’s one and only true agricultural Gold Standard, in spite of the Corruption, Politics/Policy of the USDA NOP and Demeter USA, respectively.
The Sun and Earth Certification is highest paradigm of sustainable-regenerative-agriculture to exist in the United States of America, locally brought to you by the #badboybiodynamics #biodynamicdetroit based Team.
Jamie Meyers