Rudolf Steiner is the creator of the Biodynamic agricultural method or ‘Biodynamics‘, outlining its core principles in 1924 during a series of lectures commonly referred to as ‘The Agriculture Course’. Steiner saw vines as very special from our human standpoint in comments made in 1913, see here.

Publications

Rudolf Steiner, Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture (Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Inc. USA, 1993), trans. by C. Creeger and M. Gardner.