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Soil, Culture, and Human Responsibility Bruno Follador Less than a hundred years ago, the bounty of the Southern Plains still seemed endless. Kansas farmer Earl Owens remarked: “Boom, all you had to do was plant, and you had a crop. It was just no problem. In the 1920s . . . it was a cinch. You put...

From BFDI Feb. 22-24: Marbleseed Conference, La Cross, WI — visit Demeter USA's booth and find out more about Biodynamic certification and the Alliance Feb. 24: The Individualized Farmscape & Pruning Fruit Trees, with Hugh Williams, Threefold Auditorium Chestnut Ridge, NY Feb. 28, Mar. 6-7: Anth...

The Preparations Glen Atkinson Most BD practitioners generally see the compost preparations as being used as soil and growth regulators, with a vague sense they work on more subtle levels as well. Most recently their activity was publicly described as being due to their bacterial and enzyme content...

Continuing the Legacy of Biodynamics Stewart Lundy is a biodynamic farmer, researcher, and writer from the United States. In this interview with Charles Cross, he shares his thoughts on the evolving tradition of biodynamics, his development during preparation-making on his farm, and how other spiri...

Husemann - Equisetum, the Kidney and the Planet Venus

The article mentioned in Glen's article above

A particularly clear and fairly early statement of this approach can be found here with the process and inputs outlined. "While giving the making process of the preparations, RS also outlined the basic effects of each preparation. He also gave some of the chemical processes that occur in each....

The Preparations Glen Atkinson Most BD practitioners generally see the compost preparations as being used as soil and growth regulators, with a vague sense they work on more subtle levels as well. Most recently their activity was publicly described as being due to their bacterial and enzyme content...

Andre Leu's experiences from the Goetheanum in 2020

André Leu - Lecture: "Rudolf Steiner – 100 years ahead of the science of his time"

Dear Friends, Tomorrow evening (February 13th at 7:30 PM EASTERN) we gather together online on Zoom for the very first of our study group sessions for 2024. This year's theme is a celebration of the 100-year anniversary of Rudolf Steiner's Agriculture Lectures, which marked the birth of biodynamics....

Since mildew seems to be the issue most important to vintners at the research gathering in Dornach at the 100 year agriculture course I've been looking to see what folk have said. Glen in his inspirational work Equisetum and Fungus : "The universal ‘hope’ for BD fungal control is Equisetum, how...

• on the physical level, it brings warmth and increases the resistance of plants to the cold. Our ‘Pro heat’ is made with valerian and the drone (the bee is linked to the world of the dandelion). The Valerian is a great activator for many processes; • in etheric terms it moves the warmth ether. On t...

... the preparation based upon the dandelion develops its main influence in the region of the flower that we have always linked to the Air element. We also know that the chemical element associated with Air is nitrogen. Just now we stated that 506 is the preparation that promotes nutrition from the ...

the forces of vigour should not rise to the flower as they are in the metabolic sphere, because the forces of vigour only stimulate the constructive processes that are called ‘anabolic’ in biological sciences. At the top of the plant catabolic processes must dominate and these bring in ‘destructive’...

We have often said that the action of the spirit upon the etheric determines the state of the immune system. The radiation of iron can lead the impulse of the spiritual life to the different organs. The nettle, a plant, has the capacity to carry the spiritual life in the plant kingdom and we know no...

Thus Chamomile, because of the fact that it also contains calcium, is in a position to absorb any excess astrality brought in by yarrow and enable the plant to fulfill its vegetative role. (Commentary to the Agriculture Course p182). On the physical plane it activates the calcium process. This proce...