Biodynamic agriculture, How to apply it in the vineyard: Fifty years of practice and teaching | François Bouchet

It is in the field, after fifty years of practice and teaching, that François Bouchet acquired the mastery of bio-dynamics, which allowed him to produce this book, both practical and inspired, imbued with pragmatism as much as intuition. The author is first and foremost a farmer, who expresses himself in a concrete and tangible way - his exposé of the successive missteps that have led viticulture to the brink of the abyss is irrevocable, his diagnosis is sound, and his statement of the necessary measures to be taken is clear and convincing. But François Bouchet is also a poet, eager to share his affinity with the magic of the world, be it mineral, vegetal, animal or celestial. His book is also a manual, a collection of meticulously and rigorously presented recipes for all the preparations that make up the pharmacopoeia of the biodynamic viticulturist, as well as the gardener. And this in itself is revolutionary, as these manufacturing details had never before been so clearly articulated.