Bright Bird Biodynamic
Death would bring life.
原本打算請老師教導制作其中一種BD配方，所以之前到屠房拿了一些牛的內臟，看見這些血淋淋腥臭的東西，真的碰也不想碰，當知道那不是正確的部位不能做配方後，內心十分想扔掉就算了，不過老師卻另有打算要保留下來
雖然老師主要是食素的，但他毫不介意處理這些內臟，而且用來在工作坊講解，然後把這些惡心的東西用來制作堆肥，因為他知道這是最好的方法，在滋潤土地的同時，把死亡轉化為生命
在歐美的BD農場通常也會同時耕種和飼養動物，因為這樣農場才是一個完整的生命體，而動物是在自然環境中生長，和現在的集中圈養截然不同。老師說每年只會有一兩次當地的農夫聚集一起，邀請屠夫到農場處理動物的器官，動物生和死也是在農場內。而令我驚奇的是老師那種BD農夫的智慧，他只要用堆肥的熱力，就已經很簡單地把牛角和骨頭分開，完全利用到大自然來轉化死亡
本來不想寫這篇文章，但最近看到了香港因爲豬瘟而屠宰幾千隻豬的照片，一隻一隻用黑膠袋包著送到堆填區，人們害怕死亡而逃避去面對，沒有把死亡轉化，反而更加污染了大地
大家聽聽礦物界的石英從 physical 釋放到 spirit 的聲音和能量
工作坊前帶 Harald 老師參觀一個有養牛的農莊，順道收集牛糞，而動物天性的直覺很奇妙，可能知道老師懂得善待動物，牛牛會親近老師，而且不斷舔老師的手呢 ❤️🐮
想報名工作坊向老師學習就要把握最後機會啦
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雖然很多人聽過 biodynamic 生機互動農法 (BD)，但在我的角度看 BD 不只是一種耕種的技術，而是把 “人智學 (anthroposophy)” 應用在農業上
記得上年到台灣跟老師學習時，他的太太特別教授了一節人智學的基礎知識，而且還帶領大家練習優律詩美 Eurythmy 去體驗人智學
這圖講的是”地水風火”，人智學理解的世界便是 physical, etheric, astral, ego，而在農場上便對應 礦物、植物、動物 和 人，而在植物生長的元素便是 hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon
第一次自己看 Steiner 的 agriculture lecture (農業八課) 會有很多地方不明白，但經老師用人智學的觀點講解，便比較好掌握了，所以每次工作坊(包括今次)，我也希望老師抽時間講解《農業八課》，和以人智學觀察自然和植物，打好基礎
刺蕁麻(Stinging nettle)好像開花了
西洋蓍草(Yarrow)種子應該成熟了
野草莓(Apline strawberry)這個植物是自然的小瑰寶，Dr. Steiner說野草莓除了有鐵可以幫助血的形成，而且還有矽酸刺激身體的感官，是一種很有療效的植物，不過他在另一文章指出，人工培育的草莓雖然吸收了很多肥料變得很大顆，但卻已經沒有鐵的元素了，所以野草莓就是小小的🍓
Steiner 原文：
Another superbly efficacious plant, simple and humble but infinitely instructive, is Fragaria vesca, the little wild strawberry of the woods. Its medicinal properties have only been obscured because it is eaten; and in this case the organisation of the eater masks as it were the plant’s effects. But it would be well to test the plant on persons who are still sensitive, susceptible, and do not often eat strawberries. In such persons, the amazing value of the wild strawberry would reveal itself at once. It is on the one hand especially potent in normalising the formation of the blood. It may even be prescribed with benefit in cases of diarrhœa for this reason; the forces in the lower organic sphere which are deflected from their normal course can be, as it were, restored to their proper path, viz., into the blood system itself. Here, then, is, on the one hand, a force which is essentially active in blood formation. On the other hand, the wild strawberry also contains silicic acid, which promotes stimulation of all the periphery. The wood-strawberry is indeed a splendid multum in parvo. It tends, through its siliceous content, to stimulate the action of the periphery in our organism. Then, as this peripheral stimulation means a certain risk, if too much silicic acid is conducted to the periphery that there is not a simultaneous current of nutritive substances in the same direction, and that the bloodstream is not simultaneously sufficiently enriched to nourish these areas stimulated by the silicates — the wild strawberry itself prepares the blood which has to be transmitted. It expresses and manifests in a remarkable form, just what should be done, in order to balance and help the processes activated by siliceous compounds in the periphery of our human organism. Thus nature gives us, in single examples such as this — which could be considerably multiplied — remarkable glimpses of possibilities which may become practice, if we have the intuition to seek Nature aright