5 Insane Farm Secrets Behind the Food on Your Grocery List
Nobody wants to know where their food comes from. It's perfectly
understandable: Hamburgers are delicious regardless of the fact
that the slaughterhouse had to toss cows into a giant blender in
order to make them. Still, it's worth paying attention to,
because some of what's going on behind the scenes is downright
weird. Like ...  #5. Magical Farm Rituals   Let's say your local
farm or vineyard has a mouse problem. How do you think they
solve it? Poison? Baited traps? A bunch of cats? Wrong! They
catch one mouse, skin it, discard the body, burn the skin into
ashes while Venus is in the constellation Scorpius, then scatter
the ashes. Or at least that's what they do if they practice
biodynamics. It's a popular farming technique among organic
growers (especially vineyards) that is full of weird rituals
intended to harness the powers of the Earth and stars. Here are
their directions on how to make compost:  First, stuff cow horns
full of manure and groun