Cover Story: SCIENCE VERSUS BELIEFS


Unproven biodynamics, animal communications and distance healing have a place on the farm



For a small number of advocates, these alternative practices are providing solutions where others have failed. But to the debunking experts, they are just scientific nonsense

By MARY BAXTER

Bill Redelmeier first encountered biodynamics at the 85-acre Benziger Family Winery in Sonoma County, Calif. He still remembers the line Chris Benziger, one of the vineyard’s owners, opened the tour with: “What we’re going to talk about sounds like California woo-woo – but it works.”

Better Farming - January 2010