Biodynamic agriculture

Dealing with pests and weeds

Biodynamic agriculture use techniques reminiscent of the fertilization for pest control and weed control, most of these techniques include using the ashes of a pest or weed that has been trapped or picked from the fields and ceremonially burnt. Steiner sees pests and weeds as a result of inbalance between life forces emanated from the earth.

Related Topics:
Pest control - Weed control - Ash

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Since Steiner viewed the full moon, Venus and Mercury as cosmic powers influencing the fertility of plants, the biodynamic techniques for pest control involves blocking the fertility influence from said planets on different pests. Steiner dictates that this is achived in different ways for pests and weeds:

Related Topics:
Full moon - Venus - Mercury

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• Weeds are combated by collecting seeds from the weeds and burning them above a wooden flame. The ashes from the seeds is then spread on the fields, which will according to biodynamic philosophy block the influence from the full moon on the particular weed and make it infertile.
• Pests such as insects or Apodemus (field mice) have more complex processes associated with them depending on what pest is to be targeted. For example field mice are to be countered by deploying ashes prepared from field mice skin when Venus is in the scorpius.