Professione Biodinamica
The awareness of the importance of biodynamic, quality and sustainable agriculture, combined with the continuous search for a balance between human work and the life of plants and animals, has led us to create training courses with one objective: to take care of earth to heal man himself.
biodynamic according to noro
Current biodynamics has undergone notable changes compared to the theoretical principles of Rudolf Steiner. We believe that anthroposophy is beneficial, but only if agriculture achieves a high level of quality through the use of biodynamic preparations.
Sensitivity is an essential requirement for practicing biodynamics. It is necessary to observe plants from a different point of view, recognizing their interaction with the sky, the earth and the entire ecosystem.
This approach focuses on prevention rather than symptoms , unlike conventional agriculture. The analogy with human nutrition is clear: good nutrition leads to a state of well-being, and the same principle applies to plants.
Therefore, working on the land requires the same commitment that taking care of your body would require.
The processes are long and gradual, but the damage we have on our health has a very distant origin…
…even since the post-war period when it was necessary to feed an entire nation and the harmfulness of pesticides was not yet known.
The biodynamic approach also goes beyond the concept of sustainability: it aims to improve and not just keep a starting state intact.
This improvement manifests itself through the transformation of the soil by cultivating its humus, giving it vitality, dynamism and fertility.
The philosophical approach of biodynamics has often been an obstacle in attracting farmers; therefore, the practice must demonstrate tangible results to gain credibility.
It is clear that conventional agriculture, based on chemistry, pesticides, genetic engineering and above all on a symptom approach cannot be the adequate answer to address the problems of soil fertility and ecosystem sustainability.
Michele Lorenzetti is a Biologist and Oenologist. A very close collaborator of indispensable importance like Carlo Noro in the biodynamic world. His work as scientific director of the training school and on biodynamic preparations is the basis of our work.
Enormous and indisputable results obtained in viticulture have led him to be one of the most undisputed and established oenologists in the biodynamic field.
To date he is committed to training many wineries throughout Italy in biodynamic agriculture. In 2006 he planted a vineyard in Vicchio del Mugello on the Tuscan-Emilian Apennines where he produces and bottles his wine.
He was born in ’51 in Piglio, in Ciociaria, home of the Cesanese area, where he spent his childhood, until he was 10-11 years old. His father was a farmer: he mainly cultivated vines and olive trees and produced on average 24 barrels of wine per year, as well as oil and wheat. Then the turning point: three consecutive years of harvest were lost due to hail, the resulting economic crisis forced the father to emigrate with the family to Tuscany, to Ponte Buggianese (PT) 8 km from Montecatini Terme.
At around 20 years old, having completed his studies at the Professional Institute for Graphic Arts, as a specialized linotypist, he set up a printing house in Rome (among other things, in the use of complementary colors in biodynamics, he says he was greatly helped by his experience typographic).
The business proceeds well for a few years, but then, overwhelmed by the amount of commitments (at just over 20 years old, he has 2 workers and works 15 hours a day), no longer feeling in control of his life, he radically changes his business: he is hired from a bank, for which he will work for about 20 years.