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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

John Chester is not the typical entrepreneur. He gets excited watching animals eat grass and finding worms in his soil. The filmmaker-turned-farmer runs a different kind of startup: a biodynamic farm.

Tara Smith does not mind squealing on herself about the mistakes she has made since becoming a farmer at 47. Early on, she kept the runts of a litter of pigs, not realizing they could not survive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. WESTMORELAND, N.H. — Frank Hunter and Kim Peavey live their lives in a way that Rudolf Steiner would approve. Steiner was the founder of both Waldorf ...

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 ...

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 ...