Stirred, Not Shaken

October 23, 2009

Biodynamics, Gardening, Vegetable Gardening

...ic farming. Biodynamic agriculture combines common sense practices such as composting with strange esoteric rituals. The oddest aspect of biodynamics involves the “preparations”, a specific set of substances made of manure, silica and herbs that are buried in cow horns, bladders and skulls. After a few months they are unearthed, ritually stirred and applied to soil and compost piles. Steiner has the biodynamic farmer spray these preparations on so...

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Save the World–Poop in a Bucket

Mr. Homegrown

January 30, 2008

Humanure

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Learn about composting your own poo by checking out our new post, How to Save the World by Pooping in a Bucket, at the consciousness shifting blog Reality Sandwich, for which we write a regular column. And should you want more potty talk you’re in luck due to a minor sewage synchronicity going on in the magazine/internet world. As we wrote our meditation on human waste, a number of other stories on the subject came out at the same time: Wasteland...

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A Year after The Age of Limits: 5 Responses to the End Times

Mrs. Homegrown

May 5, 2014

Age of Limits, Thoughtstylings

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...s of life and death, decay and renewal. Keep a compost pile, a worm bin, a composting toilet. They’re useful systems, and they teach you a lot about life. • If you don’t have a faith or a philosophy to follow, consider finding some conceptual framework to hang your reality upon. It helps. • Let creativity flourish. Learn to play instrument, tell a story, work clay or whittle toys from wood. There have always been hard times. And there has always b...

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