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Growing biodynamically.

Publication: New Life Journal
Publication Date: 01-JUN-02 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Saturday mornings during the growing season will find a small group of farmers selling their produce at a garden and gift shop called Featherwood. This gathering in Cleveland, Georgia might not seem unusual at first sight, but you won't find your everyday road-side produce here. The produce is colorful, interesting in the varieties available, and unusually flavorful. The secret? All produce sold here must be fresh-picked, grown by the vendor and organic. Growing interest in healthier eating and supporting sustainable farming practices sustained this market from June through September last year.

Two of the farmers, Ed Taylor and Patti Caraway, grow their produce biodynamically. Ed Taylor farms in the Nacoochee Valley and has been growing food organically for over twenty years. After several years of farming, he began to have a keener awareness of the plants themselves; some plants looked more distressed or lively, some had more vitality than others. This awareness of the plants led to a recognition of energies and rhythms of individual plants. Ed read about biodynamics and how it is a method of allowing the natural forces of nature to work for the plants. These biodynamic growing methods were in...

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