Homeadow Song Installation, 2012
Photo Credit: Tony Walsh
Finding inspiration in Rudolf Steiner’s indications for biodymanic agriculture and cultural renewal, Vicki Mansoor and Peter Huttinger own/operate Homemeadow Song, a working farm in Spring Grove Village. To convey their practice, their old chicken coop is displayed alongside biodynamic preparations, various canned goods and tools routinely used in their biodynamic farming practices, such as the solar-powered trip wire protecting their chickens from four-legged predators.
Their farming practice puts special emphasis on improving the life and productivity of their orchard’s fruit trees, so as to interconnect them with the gardens and the larger four and a half acre homestead. A central endeavor toward meeting this goal has been the construction of a bioswale in the orchard to manage and sequester rainwater, thus improving the habitat for red currants, as well as native plants for bee forage. Other recent projects include a new chicken coop, hive stands built with native cedar and the acquisition of a sprayer (on view here) for spring application of oil sprays and biodynamic preparations to the fruit trees.
Their farming practice puts special emphasis on improving the life and productivity of their orchard’s fruit trees, so as to interconnect them with the gardens and the larger four and a half acre homestead. A central endeavor toward meeting this goal has been the construction of a bioswale in the orchard to manage and sequester rainwater, thus improving the habitat for red currants, as well as native plants for bee forage. Other recent projects include a new chicken coop, hive stands built with native cedar and the acquisition of a sprayer (on view here) for spring application of oil sprays and biodynamic preparations to the fruit trees.
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