There are plenty of agriculture buzzwords floating around the news these days (Agroforestry! Vertical farming! Sustainable intensification!), and it can be challenging to keep all these different ...

One preparation for biodynamic agriculture involves grinding quartz to the consistency of talcum powder, and burying the material in cow horns for six months. It is then dug up, mixed into a spray and ...

For those of you who are not familiar with biodynamics, let me set the scene for you: It is a method of agriculture that originated from the scientist and philosopher, Rudolf Steiner. The method was ...

As climate pressures mount, biodynamic growers in Épernay, the Côte des Bar, and beyond argue that healthier vineyards lead ...

David Kinch is known to drive at almost 90 miles per hour. When asked why, Kinch says, with a shrug, "I have to get somewhere." Yet when this has-to-get-somewhere chef and owner of the four-star ...

The Beckmen Vineyards team is no stranger to breaking some ground. The California family has been making wine for 25 years in Santa Barbara County, and in that time they've hung their flag on a few ...

Last week, eight of us spent a morning filling a 3ft-deep, brick-lined hole in my garden with fresh cow manure. We treated it with seven specially fermented compost preparations and covered it with a ...

You may have heard more and more lately about biodynamic wines. This term, initially reserved for a niche of enthusiasts, is gaining more and more attention in the wine world and among sustainability- ...

FOREST GROVE, Ore. — The journey to biodynamic farming at Montinore Estate began with a tiny soil-dwelling insect. Rudy Marchesi, former president of the 200-acre vineyard and winery west of Portland, ...