Buried antlers, sheep skulls and planting by the lunar calendar; Lettuces at Christmas? At 600ft above sea level? This is the alchemy of biodynamic farming witnessed by Jill Tunstall.(Features)

From: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) | Date: November 20, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Jill Tunstall

EVERY year Andy Trim takes a sharp knife and scrapes the outer bark from an oak tree into a sheep's skull which he then buries over winter.

While this may sound like some pagan - or worse, satanic - rite this is in fact Andy at work making fertiliser for his 35 acre farm.

Not much fertiliser, you may think, out of one skull. But then this soil food is so potent that only a teaspoon is needed to boost up a tonne of compost to s...

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