The most widely-known — and often ridiculed — practice in Biodynamic Farming involves the planting of cow horns, known as Field Preparation 500 in Steiner’s treatise. At one such wine estate, 30 horns are filled with fresh organic manure & planted in the vineyards every winter, where a slow composting occurs underground. Come Spring, before the vines blossom, the horns are dug up, & the manure extracted. Now transformed into “beautiful, silky earth,” the proprietor says, the manure is made into a “tea” & spread in small homeopathic quantities over the entire vineyard.

Bio-dynamic indeed.

Here’s another: while sitting on a panel of cocoa gurus, a well-known pod-head asked what accounts for a certain origin's outstanding harvests:

A: Well, it’s a special fertilizer that farmers down there spray on their trees.
Q: What’s so special about it?
A: It’s high in uric acid.
Q: Who makes it & does it cost a lot?
A: No, it’s really cheap, organic too, & farmers can produce it themselves!
Q: Does it require any technical equipment?
A: Hardly; they use their very own tools; whatever they got in the shed.

Seriously now, these bars taste both dynamic & biological without having to piss on them.