Unproven biodynamics, animal communications and distance healing have a place on the farm
For a small number of advocates, these alternative practices are providing solutions where others have failed. But to the debunking experts, they are just scientific nonsense
By MARY BAXTER
Bill Redelmeier first encountered biodynamics at the 85-acre Benziger Family Winery in Sonoma County, Calif. He still remembers the line Chris Benziger, one of the vineyard’s owners, opened the tour with: “What we’re going to talk about sounds like California woo-woo – but it works.”