Biodynamic techniques enhance the organic process making them work more quickly and effectively. Biodynamic agriculture stresses on the relation of the earth and cosmic forces believing that their interaction yields healthy soil, which in turn supports healthy plants immune to harmful diseases, yielding food with life energies missing in produce obtained by conventional methods. To make maximum use of this advantageous relationship between plants growth and cosmic rhythms we follow the Biodynamic calendar, which provides details as to when exactly different practices (sowing, manuring, pruning, harvesting etc. ) should be carried out to yield optimum results. We use this calendar as our guide while planning our work schedule.

Biodynamic preparations encourage the growth of microbial life. They also provide beneficial bacteria to the soil and compost. When added to compost they help multiply these microbes even more rapidly, which in turn when added to the soil as manure enlivens the soil. These microbes break down the vegetable matter (humus already in the soil due to organic practices) and make available nutrients to the plant in their simplest readily absorbable form, which the plants can easily assimilate giving them an early healthy start and a good foundation which considerably strengthens them. Cosmic influences also come into the soil and as a result the soil is enlivened and enriched beyond compare. Also, over a period of time the water requirement of the crops has reduced by 70%.

SOIL PREPARATION

According to Sir Albert Howard (Former director of the plant industry Indore) at the very foundation of the principles of organic agriculture lies the fact that the soil is the capital, nature the guru and the forest the classroom- where all the principles of organic agriculture are perfectly demonstrated, one small example being how the forest continuously manures itself- humus formation from the decaying vegetation on the forest floor. In the field the compost added as manure does the same job. The wheel of life is made up of 2 process growth and decay- one being the counterpart of the other. Growth of crops in field yields food to animals and humans, and to speed up the growth we need decaying vegetation (compost, green manure, crop waste). As humans we have a right to only the fruit and seed of the crops, the rest should be returned to Mother Earth to maintain the natural balance of nature providing the essential humus content to the soil which is depleted due to crop production. Depleted soil fertility is restored also by adding compost. Applying good quality compost (biodynamically enriched ) , crop rotation, greening manuring are essential organic practices which provide the soil with biomass- humus which is of utmost importance for enlivening the soil and improving its structure. Organic farming believes in giving inherent strength and vitality to plants using nature's gifts. Myraids of microbes and macrobes –fungi, bacteria, earthworms, insects, birds, bees etc. are natures gifts, our untiering, never time bound, army of labourers providing the best foundation for our crops –a rich, live, well aerated, porous soil. Deep rooting of plants are encouraged by this, giving rise to stable healthy crops.