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So my wife, George, and I spent a week at a resort in Arizona called Miraval with our

friends, Adam and Kelly Contos.

There we took a very interesting wine tasting class from a very entertaining salmoneque

named Noel, who was also their resident beekeeper.

So as Noel moved to the next glass of art tasting, he mentioned how this one was made by the

Cosmos, a process called biodynamic farming, which is a spiritual, ethical, ecological

approach to agriculture, he said, also known as extreme organics.

The method of biodynamics was developed by an Australian philosopher Dr. Rudolph Steiner

in the early 20th century.

Steiner believed that to attain an organic crop, one must pay attention to the Cosmos and

have the earth and the vineyard be a self-contained ecosystem.

A biodynamic vineyard would also include livestock such as cows for manure, horses to

pull a plow through the vineyard, also for manure, goats and pigs for weed control,

and also manure, and chickens for bug control, and I guess breakfast burritos.

This living community of plants, soil, and animals is meant to nurture the land, restore

its health, and celebrate the interconnectedness amongst humans, earth, and the Cosmos.

So the wackiest procedure, which to its critics, actually defies actual biodynamics, as well

as actual logic, is the stuffed old cow horns with manure and six different and very specific

kinds of plants.

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