Wayne Edwards
“Energy in general is everywhere, biodynamics is all about working with living energies too. Astral, earthly, human, plant. Most of the stuff we are working with we cannot physically see. ”
“Percy Weston wrote a book Cures of Cancer; he was a real-life Australian guy who lived to 106. He would bring his sheep into an acidic paddock then bring him into the yards and check them and found cancers on their faces. He sent them to an alkaline paddock and come back and the cancers would be gone. What is going on here? This is about the balance of the body, its in our bodies and the soil. When you learn things like this you carve out which direction to go to grow plants.”
Have you had any experiences like Percy, an aha moment that proves your theories of farming?
“We prove it every day, all the time. I have gone from fumigating the soil as a chemical farmer spraying all the deadly chemicals to kill butterflies. Destroying not only the soil but the atmosphere the waterways and ourselves. I have gone full swing, 100% in the other direction, alot of the times with people they must experience the polarity of the system before they can understand that they need to bounce the other way.”
“Your intent becomes more of the purpose of what its all about.”
What’s your journey to farming?
“The land I grew up on Dad worked for about four or five years before I was born, but I never started farming till I was 26.
I left school and became a carpenter, I could not see the returns in becoming a farmer while growing up so I became a carpenter, then I could not see a future in building. The cauliflower industry was taking off, so I jumped on board with Dad and his brothers and his sons. Then ten years later all the brothers went their separate ways, and it was just me and my Dad.”
What inspired you to move towards natural farming practices?
“When you are farming by yourself you start asking questions about what other people are doing and why others are doing what they are doing, you keep gathering information and it doesn’t stop.
I started off researching how to grow better plants, that meant teaming up with now a good friend who has passed Neville Simcock, he taught me almost everything I know, including the fats and figures of the soil.”
Can you speak about Biodynamic farming?
“When I started organic farming, I experimented with biodynamic farming probably five or ten years before I turned my current farm over into an organic farm. Biodynamic farming is a great way to return health to the soil and allows the soil to turn around quick. Biodynamic farming is generally about intent, intent is 80% of the whole deal. If you get into biodynamics and study and figure out how things work your mindset changes, and you do not look anywhere else because it has all the answers.”
