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THREE BIODYNAMIC SPRAY PREPARATIONS
WHAT ARE THE NINE BIODYNAMIC PREPARATIONS & WHAT IS THE DESIRED OUTCOME FROM USING THEM?
The principles of biodynamics say that the nine preparations (conceptualized by Rudolf Steiner) would produce heathier, longer-lasting and more vital crops with an inner capacity to resist all that...
THE SIX COMPOST PREPARATIONS
The principles of biodynamics say to put six of the nine preparations in when making piles of compost, piles of compost being the way all green waste produced on the ...
HOW IS BIODYNAMICS DIFFERENT FROM ORGANIC OR SUSTAINABLE
There are roughly four ways to farm wine of any kind of food crop. The most common (90% of all wine) is conventional wine-growing.
WHAT IS BIODYNAMICS
Biodynamics is the oldest so-called green agriculture movement. It was devised by Rudolf Steiner of Steiner-Waldorf school fame in 1924, twenty years before the organic agriculture movement began
VEGETARIAN/VEGAN WINES
Wines made using no animal-derived winemaking aids/additives like egg white, casein (from milk), gelatin (from mammals) and isinglass (from fish) can be labelled as suitable for vegetarians/vegans....
What are “orange” wines?
Orange wines are white wines made using a technique first used thousands of years ago, when everything – grapes, juice, pips and stems – went into the fermentation vessel, usually.
Why should we drink organic, biodynamic and natural wine?
The main reason is taste. Not everyone agrees organic/biodynamic/natural wines taste better (although we like to think so…!), but pretty much everyone agrees they taste different. Grapes from a....
What is natural Winemaking?
Natural wine is an important, growing if still slightly niche trend. Natural winemakers often use organic/biodynamic methods in the vineyards but are opposed to any form of independent.