Biodynamic compost with Farmer Jack McAndrew

This film is a fast paced introduction to biodynamic compost with biodynamic maestro, farmer Jack McAndrew. Giving you enough information and insight to start your own biodynamic compost pile. Farmer Jack likes to call this type of compost 'black gold’.

To make a 10 ton pile you will need:

For the pile:

- 10 tonnes of biodynamic dairy cow manure.
- 20 bales of organic and/or pesticide free alfalfa.
- Water
- Food waste

- Dr Pfeiffer Biodynamic compost starter : https://jpibiodynamics.org/products/pfeiffer%E2%84%A2-compost-starter-2

Biodynamic preparations: These can be purchased from the Josephine Porter Institute for applied biodynamics: https://jpibiodynamics.org/collections/biodynamic-preparations

502: YARROW: goes in a stags bladder. Facilitates is a relationship between sulphur, potassium and the cosmos. It attracts trace elements from the cosmos.

503: CHAMOMILE: goes in the intestines of a cow and is buried over winter. Then dug up and left in the sun for the summer. It attracts calcium and sulfur. It stabilizes the nitrogen.

504: STINGING NETTLE: Is buried in the earth in peat moss and left for a year. Facilitates a relationship between sulphur, potassium and iron. It brings health to the pile.

505: OAK BARK: Facilitates a relationship with calcium, Healing forces to combat diseases

506: DANDELION FLOWER: Facilitates the relationship between Silicic acid and potassium. Brings cosmic forces to the soil.

507:VALERIAN: Made into a juice and spread over the pile. Bring intelligence to the pile.

To make a 1 ton pile you will need:

For the pile:

- 1 tonnes of biodynamic dairy cow manure.
- 2 bales of organic and/or pesticide free alfalfa.
- Water
- Food waste

About farmer Jack:

Farmer Jack was a cruise ship photographer, until his then girlfriend requested he come back on land, or she would be gone. She later became his wife and he got a job in corporate hospitality at a race course track.
Looking for a new direction, what he refers to as his ‘force’, he found himself in independent book shop The Bohdi Tree in Los Angeles. An independent bookstore specializing in world religions, metaphysics, psychology, philosophy and health. Back then it would have been called ‘new age’ now ‘current age’ seems more appropriate.
It was there that a copy of Rudolph Steiners book ‘The Agriculture course’, literally fell off the shelf and into his hands. Within its pages, his new direction and true calling, biodynamic farmer. He was hooked.
Shortly after reading the book, he was at the racecourse and met a man called Peter Dukich. There was something about this man, that he couldn’t his finger on. He asked what he did for a living and he replied that he was a farmer. Jack told him how he had always wanted to be a farmer and Peter invited him to a lecture.
Jack attended the lecture and ended up staying with Peter and his family for three days. He invited Jack to come work with him on a farm he leased, with his friend Harris Porter. It was Harris Porter that taught them all to make compost. Jack likens this to a religious experience, with Harris Porter officiating as the priest.
It was Harris Porter that introduce Jack to his next mentor Alan Chadwick. A British aristocrat and actor turned horticulturist and teacher. Alan has studied with Rudolph Steiner and Jack was thrilled to learn from a former Steiner student.
He spent 3O years working for an Armenian farmer at Still point vineyards in Topanga. Tending the farm and make compost for the world class cabernet grapes. This was followed by 12 years working for Biodynamic farm, One Gun Ranch, making biodynamic compost for the farm. More recently he has been offering a free compost workshop at Malibu Fig Ranch and this is where I was lucky to meet Jack.
His mission in this life is to bring fertility to the soil and he believes that Biodynamic compost is the most nutritious compost in the world. So whether you are an experienced farmer or just starting out, please give this process a try and let me know how it goes.

My family and I are currently traveling America in a 40ft school bus. Amateur but enthusiastic future farmers. Learning about organic and regenerative ways to farm, so that we can have our own farm one day. If there is someones world you'd like to see or a farmer or plant expert we could all learn from, please send me an email: amy@amysmyth.com. We are on the road for the next year with no real plan. Other than to learn what we can, from as many bright minds as possible.This film is a fast paced introduction to biodynamic compost with Biodynamic maestro, farmer Jack McAndrew. Giving you enough information and insight to start your own biodynamic compost pile. Farmer Jack likes to call this type of compost 'black gold’.

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