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Pick what you want to advance and see the most relevant biodynamic practices.
Preparations & practices
Each linked to what it advances and the tools that run it.
Horn manure (500)
Manure fermented in a cow horn, dynamised and sprayed on the soil to stimulate life and rooting.
Horn silica (501)
Ground silica fermented in a horn, sprayed as a fine mist over the canopy to work with light and ripening.
Compost preparations (502–507)
Yarrow, chamomile, nettle, oak bark, dandelion and valerian inserted into compost and soil.
Horsetail (508)
A decoction or tea of Equisetum arvense sprayed to make the environment less favourable to fungi.
Biodynamic compost
On-farm compost, treated with the 502–507 preparations, as the central fertility source.
Barrel compost (Maria Thun)
A concentrated preparation (CPP) of manure, eggshell and basalt with the preparations, for soil spraying.
Lunar & cosmic calendar
Maria Thun’s calendar organises sowing, preparations and work by root, leaf, flower and fruit days.
Dynamisation & application
Stirring water into alternating vortices for an hour before spraying the preparations.
Farm organism
Integrating animals, diversity and on-farm fertility to make the farm a closed, resilient organism.
Cover crops & hedges
Diverse ground cover, hedges and flower strips as the farm’s habitat and ecological infrastructure.
Soil vitality
A living, structured soil — the centre of the biodynamic approach.
Plant vitality & resilience
Balanced vines, with good ripening and less dependence on interventions.
Wine expression & quality
Biodynamics’ central promise in wine — clarity, energy and sense of place.
Biodiversity & farm organism
The farm as a living, self-sufficient organism — biodynamics’ key concept.
Demeter certification
The biodynamic seal — which requires the preparations, biodiversity and logging everything.
From plot to bottle, with the whole history
GrapeFlow logs phenology, observations and operations by plot and date, and ties it all to the lot and the bottle — the history certification asks for and buyers want to see.
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