Translations:Benutzer:Arian/Klett-Mini-Test/987/en

With the crop rotation, the biodynamic farm creates for itself a framework of cultivation that guarantees an enduring soil-born fertility corresponding to the site conditions. This spatial-temporal framework sets a theme that can be varied from year to year according to weather and the needs of fodder and market. The theme must live as a living idea-context in the consciousness of the farm community and be impressed upon the farm organism progressively, year after year. Each year anew, this image of the crop rotation becomes a perceptible work of art in the shaping of the course of nature. The following example — the Dottenfelderhof — presents a twelve-field crop rotation that divides into two six-field sequences, each of which in turn reveals the original principle of three-field husbandry: