Susan Parsons: Meet Canberra's biodynamic kitchen gardeners

By Susan Parsons
Updated July 12 2015 - 10:08am, first published June 30 2015 - 11:45pm
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Sitting on the step of a wooden deck in winter sunshine, Andrew Bartolich had his sleeve rolled up and, with one hand, he was vigorously stirring lightly coloured water in a large copper pot to create a vortex. This magic brew was Prep 500. Claire-Louise Hayashi, one of the biodynamic compost makers at Petra Cram's house, explained that a small ball of soil, that had been placed in a cow horn and buried in the ground for six months, is put into water and mixed for one hour. Other members of Canberra Biodynamic Gardeners group had been taking it in turn to swirl the water. It is then poured into small bottles for each person to take home to sprinkle on the soil in their vegetable garden.

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