This calendar gives each day suggestions for agricultural actions based mostly on the interaction of cosmic rhythms with plant development. It suggests optimum days for sowing, cultivating, and harvesting numerous crops, differentiating between root, leaf, flower, and fruit days, in addition to accounting for lunar phases and constellations. An instance can be selecting a “fruit day” influenced by a particular constellation for planting tomatoes.
Grounded in anthroposophical ideas, this technique, developed by the Austrian farmer and researcher Maria Thun, goals to reinforce soil fertility, crop vitality, and the general well being of the agricultural ecosystem. Used for many years by biodynamic practitioners worldwide, it represents an strategy to farming that seeks to work in concord with pure rhythms. The calendar helps farmers to align their agricultural practices with these rhythms and is an integral software for implementing biodynamic strategies.