This is really sloppy. Traditional biodynamic agriculture has hundreds of years of history and does not have spiritual or mystical perspectives but is largely focused around preparations of what is usually called "compost tea" which in this article is called "fetid swamp water" and is associated with JADAM instead because acronyms are scientific or something. Apparently some kooks decided to take over the term and others decided to yield it to them.
> Apparently some kooks decided to take over the term and others decided to yield it to them
They did that in the early 1920s. Do you have any sources for the alternative biodynamic agriculture you're describing, especially the use of that term to describe them?
Yes, this is more complicated than my experience had revealed. My references came from Chinese immigrants. Their main "biodynamic" practice might be an odd translation of a Chinese term. Mostly that involves using compost teas which is extremely non radical as soaking vegetation and then using the soak water to help grow plants is basically just a mechanically assisted equivalent of rain transferring nutrients from topsoil.
I feel like a lot of the biodynamics people (especially wine producers?) have a vested interest in selling it as "organic plus" and skip over the whole "horoscopes for grapes" part until you really dig
