THE COMPOST PREPARATIONS AND THE INDIVIDUALITY OF THE FARM ORGANISM

摘要

Working with the compost preparations, whether placing them within a freshly built compost heap, or participating in their making, is an essential part of biodynamics, and yet they remain deeply mysterious. There are few people today who could claim to fully comprehend them. Biodynamic researchers and practitioners since Rudolf Steiner, like Bernard Lievegoed, Maria Thun, and others, have attemptedto come to an understanding of the compost preparations by, for example, showing how each preparation is related to the working of a specific planetary action within the life-processes or how each provides for an organlike function within the organization of the compost heap. But, as these connections are not actually made in the Agriculture Course, it is interesting to look at the admittedly brief indications that Steiner gave.