Nik Kramer is a former intern at Stella Gardens and the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute. Ttvo years ago he spent time on a biodynamic farm in Austria, returning to the U.S. for the spring and part of the summer before heading back to Europe to further explore biodynamics. He recently spent two weeks with Maria Thun and shared the following. Barrel compost, as Maria Thun puts it, is the single most important substance the world has been given since 1924, when Rudolf Steiner first described the nine preparations we use in biodynamic farming. Little did she know when she began her work with barrel compost that her experimental preparation would become such a practical and useful tool for practitioners.
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