Bio-Dynamic Gardening and Farming - Volumes 1-3
Articles by Ehrenfried Pfeiffer

Dr Ehrenfried Pfieffer, one of the early pioneers of Bio-Dynamic farming, has a tremendous amount to offer to farmers and gardeners from his direct instruction by Rudolf Steiner and his subsequent 40 years of practical experience.
 
 These three publications catalogue much of the invaluable knowledge, insights, and practical advice which he has garnered through his steady application of Bio-Dynamic principles in all areas of agriculture. The articles were originally published in the journal Bio-Dynamics in the 1940's and 50's, reprinted in the journal Acres in 1963, and are as relevant today as they were at the time they were written.

Volume 1 Articles:

• New Directions in Agriculture

• Definition of Standards

• The Organic Chemical - Controversy in Agriculture

• The Decline of American Agriculture

• How to Buy a Farm

• Shall we Plow?

• The Bio-Dynamic Method can Produce Quantity Too

• Organic Matter in Soil

• How Moist is Moist?

• Mulching - Right or Wrong?

• Observations of Bio-Dynamic and Mineral Treatment of Soil

• The Treatment of Soils with Regard to Humus and Structure

• Soil Profiles - A Diagnostic Means

Mercury Press
126pp; paperback
ISBN: 0 936132 56 6
Price: £8.50

Volume 2 Articles:

• Field and Laboratory Trials and Results

• Mineral Relationships between Soils and Plants

• Plants Absorb Organic Substances from Soil

• The Biological Balance

• Healthy and Diseased Pastures

• Balanced Nutrition of Soils and Plants

• Soil Building versus Nutrient Solution

• Soils and Activators and the Nitrogen Problem

• Availability of Nitrogen, Phosphate and Potash in Soils due to
  Application of Micro organisms

• Seven Years of Soil Survey on a Bio-Dynamic Farm

• Microlife and Microchemistry in Soils

• Available Water-soluble or Storage: Humus Decides the Issue

• Fermentation versus Putrefaction and Decay

• Comparative Soil Tests 1951-1961 of a Bio-Dynamic Farm

Mercury Press
140pp, with diagrams and tables; paperback
ISBN: 0 936132 60 4
Price: £8.50

Volume 3 Articles:

• A Preliminary Report on Humus Formation in the Root Areas of Plants under Different Soil Management

• Green Manuring, Organic Fertilizer, Composting in Spring?

• Compost and Fertilizer on Peas (A Laboratory Greenhouse Experiment)

• Raw Material Useful for Composting

• Composting and Soil Problems in Southern, Warm and Dry Climates

• A General Review of the Problem of Composting (Composting Again - Small and Large)

• The Bacterial Treatment

• The Addition of Nitrogen Fertilizers to Compost

• Seaweed

• The Biological Role of the Earthworm

• The Earthworm and the Toad

• Mastitis, Its Cause and Treatment

• Answers to Specific Questions

• A Dynamic Concept of the Weather

• Does Bread Nourish?

• Physical and Etheric Energies

• Money and Working for the Work

Mercury Press
131pp, with with b/w photos and tables; paperback
ISBN: 0 936132 67 1
Price: £8.50

See also: Bio-Dynamic Farming Practice by Sattler and Wistinghausen
              & Grow a Garden and Be Self-Sufficient by E. Pfeiffer and E. Riese