What’s the difference between organics and biodynamics?
Biodynamics is a system of organic agriculture. All the principles of organics – not using synthetic fertilisers, pesticide or fungicide in the vineyard, for example, or using low levels of preservatives in the winery – also apply to biodynamics. Many organic (and, indeed, older generations of conventional) grape growers share methods with their biodynamic counterparts such as following the cycles of the moon. Where biodynamics differs from (or expands on) organics, is in the homeopathic use of ‘preparations’ such as the cow-horn manure, developed by Rudolf Steiner, to re-connect the earth and plants with cosmic life forces.
