Evidence of the results of the Australian Demeter Bio-Dynamic Method are shown in the photographs above. Photograph 1 – typical soil of today, compacted and dead. Photograph 2 – the same soil, within less than a year, – and without the addition of any inputs other than one mechanical aeration, cultivation, sowing down to pasture species and two applications of our basic soil activator named Prepared 500.

Foundation to our method of agriculture is understanding and supporting the production of humus in the soil. There is no such thing as “permanent” humus. Humus exists only at the height of a process of continuous becoming. “Permanent” humus would be dead material – nothing better than organic matter of little dynamic consequence. In a living soil, worms and microbes continue to make new humus out of old organic matter. Sustainability of humus is guaranteed by the soil structure as depicted in photograph 2. Loss of soil structure results in loss of humus.