Biodynamic farming is increasingly popular among farmers and consumers, but it is still dismissed as pseudoscience by part of the scientific community. In this article, we first present an overview of biodynamic farming, its current development, foundations and three specific principles: 1) the farm seen as a living organism; 2) Preparations; 3) Cosmic rhythms. Then, we show that pragmatic scientific approaches are compatible with biodynamic farming, and suggest an interesting potential for sustainability. Particularly, anthropological studies demonstrate that beliefs and spirituality in biodynamic farming contribute to a unique relationship of care between farmers and nature. Contrary to a common misconception, biodynamic farmers are shown to be open to scientific knowledge, which they manage to combine creatively with experiential and spiritual knowledge. At farm scale, although still rare, holistic multicriteria assessment studies suggest fairly satisfactory overall sustainability performances. Biodynamic farming has also already proven to be useful in transdisciplinary action-research projects with diverse stakeholders, to produce original “actionable knowledge” for sustainability. Overall, we conclude that biodynamic farming can be a valuable resource for “reenchanting” agriculture, in a comparable and complementary way to indigenous knowledge. However, it must not be seen as a panacea, and its organization and the major role of beliefs especially raise legitimate concerns. More research is needed to better understand the specific advantages and difficulties of biodynamic farming. Three key research perspectives are identified: 1) Farmers' decision-making; 2) Farming system design and evaluation; 3) Transformation pathways.

生物动力农业在农民和消费者中越来越受欢迎，但仍被部分科学界斥为伪科学。在本文中，我们首先介绍了生物动力农业的概述、其当前发展、基础和三个具体原则：1）将农场视为一个活的有机体；2) 制剂；3）宇宙节奏。然后，我们展示了务实的科学方法与生物动力农业兼容，并提出了一种有趣的可持续性潜力。特别是，人类学研究表明，生物动力农业中的信仰和精神有助于形成独特的关怀关系农民与自然之间。与普遍的误解相反，生物动力农民对科学知识持开放态度，他们设法将科学知识与经验和精神知识创造性地结合起来。在农场规模上，尽管仍然很少见，但整体多标准评估研究表明总体可持续性表现相当令人满意。生物动力农业也已被证明可用于具有不同利益相关者的跨学科行动研究项目，以产生原创的“可操作知识”以实现可持续性。总的来说，我们得出的结论是，生物动力农业可以成为“重塑”农业的宝贵资源，其方式与本土知识具有可比性和互补性。然而，它绝不能被视为灵丹妙药，它的组织结构和信仰的主要作用尤其引起了合理的关注。需要更多的研究来更好地了解生物动力农业的具体优势和困难。确定了三个关键的研究视角：1）农民的决策；2) 养殖系统设计与评价；3) 转型途径。