(Music: YESTERDAY, Lennon-McCartney) (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)
Prepping day
I was making Equisetum spray
Gathering materials in a special way
Oh I remember prepping day
Biodynamically
We were talking about unity
Amongst the parts of the farm family
And balance, health, and compost tea
Why we used yarrow
I don't know, but that's the way
Manure stuffed in a horn
Chamomile and silica spray -- ay --
ay
Oh prepping day
We stirred 500 in a special way
We talked about what Rudolph
Steiner'd say
And stopped all work when the
calendar showed "gray"
Why we ate so much
I don't know, we got carried away
Our roots and fruits just taste too
good
Next time we'll sow them on a
leaf-only day -- ay -- ay
Oh prepping day
I don't know why this song came out
this way
Some laughing dancing cosmic force
is at play
But I know devas beat chemicals any
day
Mmm mmm mmm -- prepping day
Comments:
This one received mixed reviews in the Biodynamic community. Pear himself was
disturbed by it, as it implied less respect for Biodynamics that he had
originally intended. This practical-spiritual approach to organic gardening and
farming grew from the work of philosopher Rudolph Steiner, who gave a series of
eight influential agricultural lectures early this century. Compost tea,
prepared by soaking finished compost in a barrel of water, is used as a liquid
fertilizer. "500" refers to one of the nine basic Biodynamic
preparations, which are applied to compost piles or directly to fields.
Equisetum, yarrow, manure, chamomile, and silica are all used in the
preparation of these "preps." The Biodynamic calendar specifies
certain "gray" days when no work with plants should be done, due to
unfavorable planetary and stellar alignments. Devas are believed to be plant
spirits. Food at Biodynamic meetings is notoriously delicious and abundant.
Excerpted from The Beetless' Gardening Book: An Organic Gardening Songbook/Guidebook, copyright 1997 by Chris Roth (info./disclaimers) (glossary) (index) (gardening guide)