Frédéric Mugnier et la biodynamie

par Ludwig Desjardins Lun 3 Mar 2014 - 14:01

Entrevue intéressante avec Frédéric Mugnier, qui parle entre autres de la bio-dynamie:

http://www.wine-searcher.com/m/2014/03/the-mugnier-interview--the-master-of-musigny

J'aime bien le passage suivant, qui remet en question cette idée que la biodynamie est en fait le résultat d'une culture ancestrale de paysan, cette supposée démonstration empirique de ses mérites... Combien de fois est-ce qu'on nous a servi ce fameux argument?

Isn’t that essentially a biodynamic approach?

Biodynamic people tend to latch onto anything that comes around. They say plowing is biodynamic, moderating pesticides is biodynamic, concentrating on the vineyard is biodynamic. I think there is a confusion. Biodynamics is often seen as a return to a lost farming tradition when it is purely an intellectual, 20th-century construct – it’s the opposite of any farming tradition.

But aren’t the biodynamic practitioners the pioneers of more holistic farming methods?

I don’t think they are pioneers. I was a pioneer too and I had no interest in Rudolf Steiner [who first put forward the theory of biodynamic farming]. I can’t see any food for thought in Steiner. He had no competence in agriculture – he was an archivist for the Goethe family. Everything he knew about nature, fruit, and the tools of farming he got them from Goethe – I would not trust him.

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