Bright Bird Biodynamic
最近有組織希望把每年 Whitsun 降靈節的週未作為世界生機互動農法日 (World Biodynamic Day)，全球各地也在今天的下午4點攪拌牛糞配方500 (Horn Manure preparation)，也有參與者同時作優律詩美(Eurythmy)，一同為大地祝福
香港今早雨已經下個不停，本來也沒打算到田灑配方，但有會員熱心推動，趁下午雨停下來時到農場攪配方，為土地出一分力，也要多謝同伴的支持
http://worldbiodynamicday.org/?fbclid=IwAR1SXVy-qK9rCU6t4qrOXDePHMaJd77KOcAS4_z-IFMofeAlnV9HIsaHleY
最近的梅雨季節，使回田的一條小路長滿菇菌，剛剛回想起 Steiner 在演講的內容，而這也是 Harald 老師在工作坊教授過的
菇菌通常會和有害的寄生蟲和病菌有親密的關係，會一同生長擴散，但當蘑菇不是生長在林木中，而是集中在農場某處潮濕的草地上生長，細菌和寄生蟲反而不會到農場的其他地方生長
所以 Steiner 說農場土地不必全部開墾，因為這會減低生產質素，反而應保留一部分林木、果樹、灌木和長菇菌的草地，才是自然農耕的相互關係
(Demeter 國際認證要求農場面積有一定比例自然的 buffer zone)
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Moreover, when we trace these intimate relationships in Nature, we gain a new insight into the essence of what is harmful. For just as the coniferous forests are intimately related to the birds and the bushes to the mammals, so again all that is mushroom — or fungus-like— has an intimate relation to the lower animal world — to the bacteria and such-like creatures, and notably the harmful parasites. The harmful parasites go together with the mushroom or fungus-nature; indeed they develop wherever the fungus-nature appears scattered and dispersed.
Thus there arise the well-known plant-diseases and harmful growths on a coarser and larger scale. If now we have not only woods but meadows in the neighbourhood of the farm, these meadows will be very useful, inasmuch as they provide good soil for mushrooms and toadstools; and we should see to it that the soil of the meadow is well-planted with such growths. If there is near the farm a meadow rich in mushrooms — it need not even be very large — the mushrooms, being akin to the bacteria and other parasitic creatures, will keep them away from the rest. For the mushrooms and toadstools, more than the other plants, tend to hold together with these creatures. In addition to the methods I have indicated for the destruction of these pests, it is possible on a larger scale to keep the harmful microscopic creatures away from the farm by a proper distribution of meadows.
So we must look for a due distribution of wood and forest, orchard and shrubbery, and meadow-lands with their natural growth of mushrooms. This is the very essence of good farming, and we shall attain far more by such means, even if we reduce to some extent the surface available for tillage.
It is no true economy to exploit the surface of the earth to such an extent as to rid ourselves of all the things I have here mentioned in the hope of increasing our crops. Your large plantations will become worse in quality, and this will more than outweigh the extra amount you gain by increasing your tilled acreage at the cost of these other things. You cannot truly engage in a pursuit so intimately connected with Nature as farming is, unless you have insight into these mutual relationships of Nature’s husbandry.
人智學及BD農法書籍
我們正式成為了三元生活實踐社的書籍經銷商，能夠以原價售賣他們出版的書籍，由於譯者對人智學有深厚的理解，所以他們幾本翻譯書籍對理解人智學和BD農法十分有幫助
其中最近出版的《生機互動農法導論》是BD農法的入門書籍，能夠協助現代人理解從有機農業跨足到生機互動農法所需具備的基礎知識
而心靈週曆雖然是來自另一間出版商，但此譯者的文筆更能意會詩句內容，所以也託他們幫忙進貨
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生機互動農法（Biodybamic Farming)的母體人智學創立人史代納博士，其一生除了年青時整理大文豪歌德的著作，還曾經是神智學的重心人物。其對西方秘修，以至到創立人智學，他的哲學思想可說是博大精深。
在他離世前一年，有一位喜歡農耕的貴族邀請他談論一下如何改善被化學耕種傷害的土地，然後出現了農耕八課，然後有跟隨他的人在不久之後成立Biodynamic Association。
在BD概念提出「Individuality」(中文多翻譯成「個體性」），曾經參加過我們的農耕班或讀書會的朋友應該都有聽過我們的解釋。而這個字在史代納博士討論的關於其他範疇，例如醫學，藝術，甚至秘修的書或演講中很多時都有提及過。其概念比在BD那個範疇提及到的更廣濶，更有哲學性，簡單來說就是人智學一直在引導人思考人類存在的意義，經過不斷出世入世對自我的成長，如何在宇宙中找出自己的獨特定位，而同時知道自己從來沒有與神性分離過。
這個字，雖然好像只是一個文字，但其意義在人智學以及其延伸的實用範疇內，是史代納博士用他的一生，以及過去世，和在每一次死亡與再生之間和高等存在一起努力後的成果，當用到這個字的時候，請深思和尊重。
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今天挖了半年前做的牛角牛糞配方(horn manure preparation, 500)出來，可能因為牛糞質素的影響，今次做得不好，雖然是充滿泥土的氣息，但配方比較輕、乾和鬆散，可惜啊，唯有秋季再努力吧