7 Key Principles of Organic and Bio-Dynamic Production

The seven key principles of Organic and Bio-Dynamic production (from the Australian standard) as follows:

• Producing food of high nutritional value;
• Enhancing biological cycles in farming systems;
• Maintaining and increasing fertility of soils;
• Working as far as practicable within a closed system;
• Avoiding pollution resulting from agriculture;
• Minimising the use of non-renewable resources;
• Co-existing with and protecting the environment;

Articles within this section focus on the core principles and standards that you need to understand if you are an Organic or Bio-Dynamic producer.

How to use this section

We have placed a number of pages in this section of the website, to introduce the reader to the basic methods used by organic growers and the theory behind it.

There is a great deal of useful information here, and we will be updating and adding to it constantly. Come back often to check us out, and explore some of the many case studies in this website, to see how growers at all stages of organic growing, from ‘first stage conversion’ to a few with four decades of experience, are applying the principles to a wide range of farming situations and crops.