It’s all about the soil

Biodynamic farming is farming that honors the earth.

A set of agricultural practices developed by philosopher and scientist Rudolph Steiner, biodynamic farming treats each farm or garden as one living organism, harmonizing its interdependent elements to support the vitality of the whole.

Biodynamic farming eschews the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides or genetically modified seed, relying instead upon the power of living soil, which it cultivates through composting, integrating animals, cover cropping and crop rotation. Biodynamic farming celebrates biodiversity, integrating annual and perennial vegetables, herbs, flowers, berries, fruits, nuts, grains, and pollinator hedgerows to build healthy and resilient living farms.

Why biodynamics?

Biodynamic farming doesn’t just produce more delicious—and nutritious—veggies (of 20 comprehensive studies of the practice, 17 found significant improvements in food quality.) It works to restore balance in our environment. Biodynamic composting sequesters carbon, reducing your farm’s footprint. Even more, it regenerates the land, enhancing soil and plant health in the long-term.

Most importantly, biodynamic farming avoids the use of harmful chemicals that threaten our environment and our health. According to a 2019 report, Long Island has the most contaminated drinking water in the state. Showing high traces of trichloropropane, a suspected carcinogen used to make pesticides, and bromomethane, a soil fumigant suspected of causing genetic defects, the consequences of cosmetic landscaping are hard to understate.