ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to provide a brief overview of a vast subject, based on the author’s experiences and knowledge as a farming practitioner, a teacher trainer and an independent researcher. Impossible to provide empirical evidence for everything conveyed, the chapter instead weaves a story that starts with the advance of western science from Kant’s empirical realism through the emergence of quantum theory, which tends to support Goethe’s subjective reality. Within this, Scottish physician Maxwell developed the concept of an ether as an extremely fine stationary field which supports the propagation of light and electromagnetic frequencies, a concept which has not since been disproven. Both Goethe and Rudolf Steiner wrote at length about the etheric field and its organisational properties or functions, including with regard to the elements. The author provides this as a backdrop to relate his own learning experiences when developing his market garden, during which he took up the practice of applying biodynamic preparations as well as the concept of the soil food web. From this, he explains how his experiments with radionics – a technology based on the wave or etheric aspect of nature – have enabled him to be more efficient and effective through applying the biodynamic preparations as wave patterns. His overarching conceptual framework is that the farm can be viewed as a living organism that breathes and grows in cycles to become increasingly alive and coherent within its boundaries.
