A new way of farming is and old way

Once upon a time, people worked with the soil without having to think about it. Such an Edenic scene is hard for us to imagine now, especially with how estranged and mechanized things have become. But there was a time when you were a child, when things "just happened" around you: someone provided food, there was water, and so forth. This doesn't mean everything was rosy. There were difficult things and scary things -- and dangerous things -- but the world had a kind of abundance. We have myths now about the parthenogenic qualities of the virgin earth, self-fertile and producing offspring by magic. This viewpoint was largely lost as a more sun-focused attitude emerged: the Earth became seen as inherently barren without the intervention of the sun. While there is an element of truth to this, our mode of agriculture became too one-sided. In truth, fertility is a hierogamy, an intimate co-participating relationship of the cosmos and the earth. In biodynamics, that is exactly our aim: bringing back to our sense of existence a dynamic balance between heaven and here, connecting plants back to the stars.