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Subtle Agroecologies
The benefits of feeding and improving the soil food web kept adding up. I’d heard about chaos
theory’s discovery that organisation arises at boundaries, and I learned to nurture my boundaries
so that they fed organisation to my beds and fields. My best veggies grew on the edges of the beds.
I found I could spread my natural inputs everywhere, feeding paths, fence rows and boundaries as
well as my crops. Always the paths and boundaries fed the beds. I was growing maize along with
soybeans as a soil improvement crop to add carbon and organic life to the soil without the need for
external inputs ( Figure 23.1).
It took me 8 years to realise what should have been obvious. Ploughing, cultivating and leaving
entire fields bare for weeks and months on end don’t just kill the earthworms. These actions stunt,
starve, shred and kill the entire soil food web. On the other hand, strip tilling beds in an otherwise
undisturbed soil food web creates miles of boundaries between cultivated beds and the surrounding sod. After all, organisation arises at boundaries. Then the delicate influences of starlight and
moonlight could engage the atmosphere with the soil for nitrogen fixation and protein chemistry. As
life in the soil food web grew, the soil’s animal sense- and-desire life became well-fed and thriving.
Throughout the animal kingdom, digestion develops hand- in-hand with animal awareness. With
abundant animal life in the soil, the market garden and soil food web became sentient, even though
these animals do not have a brain isolated in dense bone like the human skull. I think if anyone
experienced such living, sentient food, they would want a steady diet of it.
EXPLORING THE BIODYNAMIC PREPARATIONS
THROUGH RADIONIC APPLICATIONS
As well as biodynamic agriculture and the soil food web, I have experimented with specific applications of quantum physics and in particular with radionics. Radionics is a technology based on the
wave or etheric aspect of nature rather than the particle aspect and is all about copying and transferring patterns ( Young, 1976). It was discovered and developed at the turn of the twentieth century
before quantum physics showed that while particles are local, wave patterns are non-local. A medical doctor in the USA, Albert Abrams, was experimenting with various tunable resistance devices
and discovered that everything he experimented with radiated an emanation or frequency and that
this could be used to treat disease. At first, radionics met with intense scepticism and, with only
superficial examination, was frequently dismissed as bunk. However, according to my understanding, non-local waves are the etheric forces that organise physical materials, and my investigations
FIGURE 23.1 The author in a field of maize undersown with soybeans with radionically applied biodynamic
preparations and no other fertility inputs, in metre wide beds spaded into the soil food web. ( Photo credit:
Hugh Lovel.)
Subtle Agroecologies
The benefits of feeding and improving the soil food web kept adding up. I’d heard about chaos
theory’s discovery that organisation arises at boundaries, and I learned to nurture my boundaries
so that they fed organisation to my beds and fields. My best veggies grew on the edges of the beds.
I found I could spread my natural inputs everywhere, feeding paths, fence rows and boundaries as
well as my crops. Always the paths and boundaries fed the beds. I was growing maize along with
soybeans as a soil improvement crop to add carbon and organic life to the soil without the need for
external inputs ( Figure 23.1).
It took me 8 years to realise what should have been obvious. Ploughing, cultivating and leaving
entire fields bare for weeks and months on end don’t just kill the earthworms. These actions stunt,
starve, shred and kill the entire soil food web. On the other hand, strip tilling beds in an otherwise
undisturbed soil food web creates miles of boundaries between cultivated beds and the surrounding sod. After all, organisation arises at boundaries. Then the delicate influences of starlight and
moonlight could engage the atmosphere with the soil for nitrogen fixation and protein chemistry. As
life in the soil food web grew, the soil’s animal sense- and-desire life became well-fed and thriving.
Throughout the animal kingdom, digestion develops hand- in-hand with animal awareness. With
abundant animal life in the soil, the market garden and soil food web became sentient, even though
these animals do not have a brain isolated in dense bone like the human skull. I think if anyone
experienced such living, sentient food, they would want a steady diet of it.
EXPLORING THE BIODYNAMIC PREPARATIONS
THROUGH RADIONIC APPLICATIONS
As well as biodynamic agriculture and the soil food web, I have experimented with specific applications of quantum physics and in particular with radionics. Radionics is a technology based on the
wave or etheric aspect of nature rather than the particle aspect and is all about copying and transferring patterns ( Young, 1976). It was discovered and developed at the turn of the twentieth century
before quantum physics showed that while particles are local, wave patterns are non-local. A medical doctor in the USA, Albert Abrams, was experimenting with various tunable resistance devices
and discovered that everything he experimented with radiated an emanation or frequency and that
this could be used to treat disease. At first, radionics met with intense scepticism and, with only
superficial examination, was frequently dismissed as bunk. However, according to my understanding, non-local waves are the etheric forces that organise physical materials, and my investigations
FIGURE 23.1 The author in a field of maize undersown with soybeans with radionically applied biodynamic
preparations and no other fertility inputs, in metre wide beds spaded into the soil food web. ( Photo credit:
Hugh Lovel.)