Feeling the Joy of Biodynamic Farming
Our ‘Feel the Joy’ Communication Campaign highlights the essence of biodynamic farming, as a holistic, ethical, and ecological approach to farming caring for the people and the planet. Today, biodynamic farming is practiced in over 65 countries, with more than 7,000 farmers stewarding 255,000 hectares of land. Let’s have a look at what it means to practice biodynamic farming!
Biodynamic and Demeter Quality
Demeter-certified products embody the highest standards in organic and biodynamic agriculture, ensuring the highest quality from farm to table. Our rigorous standard creates ideal conditions for plants and animals to thrive and fully express their natural potential, while preserving the natural integrity of each product throughout the entire supply chain — ensuring that every item retains its vitality, flavour, and nutritional value for the highest quality products. Even during processing, our standard protects the products’ vitality, ensuring that it remains authentic and full of character. In this way, the Demeter Standard is recognised as one of the most strict and consistent in the organic sector.
The real quality aspects that we see in Demeter products, specifically, are that they don’t use growth enhancers or growth promoters. The growth is natural. And that’s really the true natural essence of nature. “
– Gautam Mohan, Managing Director — Tea Promoters India
Product Authenticity and Integrity
Demeter certification ensures that products are grown and processed without chemicals, GMOs, or artificial ingredients. When it comes to inputs, Demeter certified farmers and producers prioritise using natural preparations and minimising what is brought in from outside. In fact, the use of inputs is restricted by the Demeter Standard, reflecting a deep commitment to protecting the product’s authenticity and integrity. By following biodynamic principles, Demeter farmers enhance soil fertility and create thriving ecosystems — allowing crops to ripen naturally and develop exceptional quality.
Demeter quality stands for food in its most authentic form, beginning with the raw materials. Only ingredients that meet Demeter’s strict standards are used — grown without synthetic chemical pesticides, fertilisers, or genetic engineering — and cultivated using compost, cow manure, and seed-saving vegetable varieties. The natural and unadulterated quality of these ingredients is preserved through minimal processing. Demeter milk, for example, is pasteurised but not homogenised. This gentle handling helps retain the vitality and digestibility of the food. Many people who are sensitive to certain foods find that Demeter products are easier to tolerate — a benefit attributed to the integrity of the raw materials and the care taken during processing.
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Embrace Our Values
While the standard is regularly monitored and improved, Demeter producers and processors also share a set of core values — most notably, a deep respect for nature and the environment, a commitment to the highest quality, and a strong sense of responsibility toward their communities and workers. Choosing Demeter products means supporting a global movement rooted in quality, transparency, and truly sustainable farming — producing the highest quality products, just as nature intended.
” I feel more responsibility than doing the basics. It is also the possibility for me to go further, to do things better. The most important thing is that I feel responsible for the whole farm organism and for the consumers.”
– Herman Lutke Schipholt, Biodynamic Farmer & Advisor, Switzerland
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