BIODYNAMIC GREENHOUSE MANAGEMENT - HEINZ GROTZKE

The Italian biodynamic literature lacked a text that dealt with the greenhouse and its management: generally I have always heard "bad" things said about the biodynamic greenhouse, justifying this with the fact that the natural state and balance of the soil is altered, "false" conditions are created ” or altered for plant life, and non-seasonal fruits etc. are eaten. etc.. Careful reading of this text will make us understand that not only are these statements not true, but that the gardener, the farmer who manages a greenhouse, can instead become a "little Angel", because like the Nature that surrounds is "the manifest thought of the Angels" as R. Steiner tells us with a powerful image, so the human being who builds a greenhouse, even a small one, creates and manifests his own imaginative thought of a humanized or rather personalized nature, which becomes evident to all, manifesting itself in the visible world of the senses. Why dare I say that a gardener or a simple plant lover becomes a "little Angel" by building a greenhouse? Because he first chooses the place to build the greenhouse, decides the soil he will use for his plants and, if he is good, creates the soil himself, decides the quality and quantity of the air that enters the greenhouse and regulates it, he decides the temperature of the day and night and can change it and he decides and directly manages atmospheric precipitation”, i.e. irrigation! What is the greenhouse if not a laboratory, a real laboratory table that becomes an altar to be able to grow physically and spiritually and become a little creator Angel?