"La Puce" wrote in message
Farm1 wrote:
"La Puce" wrote in message
When I started getting interested in Permaculture, my
family just compared it to biodynamics - because that's what it
is
really.

It isn't. Permaculturists don't bury cow horns full of cow
manure, or
practice planting by the moon or use BD 500, or any of the other
formulas used by those who follow biodynamics

Sorry for the delay - I was away in Danmark and Sweden for a few
days
and it was a fabulous trip.

Yes, permaculture is very close to biodynamics.

Both have a base in organic principles but that is about where the
similarity ends.

I have used planting by
the moon for years, but not entirely rigid to the calendar though.
Also
the philosophy of permies and biodynamics are identical, a holistic
and
spriritual approach to nature and the human being. Both are based on
the research by Steiner

Steiner has had nothing to do with the development of Permaculture.
Permaculture was originally the idea of Australians Holmgren and
Mollison and Bill Mollison and the similarities between Permaculture
and Biodynamics are about as similar Islam and Christianity. Both
have philosophies and dogma telling adherents how they should conduct
their lives but that does not make them identical.