HOG HEAVEN: At her Wild Mountain Farm in Barnardsville, Megan Naylor labors to create a closed system that nurtures livestock, plants, the soil and humans. Photo by Megan Naylor “I spent most of my ...

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 ...

For decades after the concept of biodynamic farming was introduced in 1924, there was an aura of witch and wizard mysticism and charmingly earnest cluelessness around biodynamic farming. You want to ...

SANTA CRUZ >> Organic food just got one-upped. Biodynamics looks to be the new front-runner in the push for healthy and efficient farming methods. It also has a real, well, Santa Cruz feel, with ...

FEET FIRST: Jeff Poppen, the "Barefoot Farmer," returns to Asheville July 9-10 to lead an intensive workshop on biodynamic principles at Living Web Farms in Mills River. Photo courtesy of Living Web ...

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 ...

At 6:30 every Monday morning, the 60-member team at Apricot Lane Farms in Moorpark gathers around a campfire in the vegetable garden to discuss what happened over the weekend — maybe a lamb was born, ...

“My favorite thing about farming is putting my hands in the soil and feeling its life,” says Audrey James, proprietor of Odd Trees Biodynamic Farm. The phrase “Odd Trees” is a play on her first name ...

In a bid to provide a boost to biodynamics, a method of organic cultivation based on astronomical sciences, Law and Tourism Minister H.K. Patil on Tuesday assured the Biodynamic Association of India ...

Zenbunni Chocolate founders Bunni and Zen Nishimura remember the exact moment they first tried biodynamic food, about seven years ago at a friend’s farm. “We took a bite of some lettuce he was growing ...

Last week I attended a panel about biodynamic and organic agriculture and its influence on the wine industry. Roger Cohen’s recent op-ed in the New York Times was a hot topic — the one in which he ...

This article by Sanjib Chaudhary was originally published in Nepali Times and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing agreement. Across Nepal, the soil has ...