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What The Stirring Rod is, who writes it, how a note is put together.
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The Stirring Rod is an independent editorial reference on biodynamic agriculture: the soil and its humus, the preparations, the compost, the holding kept as one organism, and the seasonal work that joins them. It is written for the person who grows food or keeps land, and for the reader who wants to know what a preparation is before deciding whether to make one.
Each entry answers a single question and stays close to the field: what a preparation does for a compost heap, when the horn is filled and buried, how a holding reads its own seasons. Every page is checked against books and documents a reader can find, and the sources are named at the foot of the entry.