The salesman poured a taste of wine into the glass. I swirled, smelled, tasted, spit. “All BI-O-dy-NAMIC!” he said. I nodded my head, not really sure what he meant. And then he poured another ...

Organic gardening is on everyone's agenda, but have you ever heard of biodynamic gardening? This holistic practice takes natural planting one step further, and it can do wonders for the flowers, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Depending on who you ask, biodynamics is based on good, organic science, or it's muddled by unproven homeopathy, astrology, and ...

SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. — When vintner Randall Grahm chose the softly sloping hillside and time to plant his new pinot noir vines, he weighed all the things farmers usually consider: drainage, soil ...

Does planting a cow horn full of fresh manure in a vineyard make a better wine than a winery using more conventional farming techniques? Kevin Morrisey won’t quite make that claim, but he does think ...

Rudolf Steiner never drank wine, didn't discuss the winemaking process and mentioned grapes only as an afterthought in a series of landmark lectures he delivered nearly a century ago. But Steiner, the ...

“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 ...