Beyond Organic

摘要

From small family farms threatened by big agribusiness and suburban sprawl to environmental destruction from soil erosion and overuse of pesticides, agriculture today faces many challenges. Consumers and farmers alike are looking for more natural approaches. Bill Hill, owner of Warrups Farm in West Redding, Connecticut, has been searching for better ways to raise his tomatoes, garlic, peppers, Swiss chard, scallions and squash, and he might have found it with biody-namic agriculture. Biodynamics is not new; it predates the now-popular organic farming movement. It resembles organic agriculture in many ways, but adds a spiritual or mystical component. Hill describes biodynamics as "deep organic." However, the biody-namic movement is relatively unknown in the U.S., having only earned mainstream atten-tion in the world of wine mak-ing. But just about anything can be, and is, grown and sold using biody-namic principles.