In the summer the sheep are guided up to the pastures twice a day, in the morning and evening when the temperature is cooler: “Some advice and experience allow you to understand the needs of animals. “The Maremmano sheepdog is vital for defending them from wolves.” Understanding the needs of animals Anna Maria Trombetta and her sheep With the help of two loyal dogs she guides them back to the barn. We move on to the meadow where her 90 sheep are grazing. None of this is possible where you have monocultures,” she concludes, with an ominous tone. This high-biodiversity environment is ideal for biodynamic farming. Step by step she has built a business, or rather, an organism of biodynamic agriculture that stretches over 20 hectares: “As well as sheep, bees and pasture there’s the forest, another essential element, arable land, the vegetable garden, chickens, hedges. Her reasoning is lucid but has that emotional drive we so often find in those who believe in this type of agriculture.
We know them for their honey but their function in nature and the environment is much more complex, as they allow for the circulation of life.” The other fundamental animal is the bees. An exchange for which we find evidence in quantum physics.
As well as manure, which we can see, animals transmit low-frequency electromagnetic waves, through which living material communicates. This happens in the pastures: nature feeds the animals and the animal gives energy back to nature. “But when I discovered biodynamic farming a new world opened to me, one that brought me here: I needed a place where I could build a biodynamic farming organism, that is, a collection of organs cooperating together.” Biodynamic agriculture, sheep and bees The bees of BronzettaĪnna Maria sums up the essence of biodynamic agriculture for her: “One of the essential elements in this greater organism is ruminants, and in this area sheep are the perfect example, able to create a direct link between the vegetable and animal world. We were the founders of the first union of organic producers in the Cuneo Province: we’ve never done conventional agriculture.” She says with pride: “After a brief period working in Mondovì I started a small business raising bees and growing fruit. A determined woman with clear ideas, Anna Maria arrived here 20 years ago. “Today I’m alone, as my two sons have taken the day off, but I’ll have my own day off next week.” We’re at Bronzetta, a biodynamic farm in Paroldo, near Ceva, a marvelous amphitheater of the High Langhe. I meet Anna Maria Trombetta in her barn, where she’s checking on the wide, fenced areas for the sheep.