2016 conference report
Our Earth – a Global Garden?
Report of the Agriculture Conference 2016 at the Goetheanum in Dornach
Editorial: Gardens for the Future – a Future Vision
Jean-Michel-Florin
From Seed to Plate
Marie-Monique Robin
Our Earth – a Global Garden?
Jean-Michel Florin
The Archetypal Garden
Christine Gruwez
Man in his Macrocosmic Nature
Thomas Lüthi
Genius Loci
Ola Aukrust
The School Garden of Today
Peter Lange
Breeder‘s Gardens, Growing Points for the Future
Peter Kunz
Working with the Beings of Nature
Anna Cecilia Grünn
How can Plants be Improved, Accompanied and Ennobled?
Ute Kirchgaesser
The Earth‘s Ecological and Economic Climate
Ueli Hurter
Theme for the Year 2016/17
Creating a Fertile Soil – From Nature to Culture
Jean-Michel Florin, Ueli Hurter, Thomas Lüthi
Edible Towns
Bastiaan Frich
2017 conference report
Creating fertile soil from nature to culture
Report of the Agriculture Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland 2017
Creating and maintaining fertile soil 3
Thomas Lüthi
Opening message from Prince Charles 4 Welcome 5
Michaela Glöckler
Marienhöhe: Three generations of work on building up soil fertility 6
Fridtjof Albert
Soil fertility from the perspective of spiritual science
Ueli Hurter
How can the fertility of our soils be maintained?
Paul Mäder
Following the trace of the spirit’s working in nature
Martin v. Mackensen
Experiential sketches: Large scale biodynamic composting in Northern India
Sundeep Kamath
Agriculture as an agent for societal change
Steffen Schneider
Warmth – from compost to oven to heart
Jasmin Peschke
Mound culture as a way to improve soil fertility
Walter Sorms
To whom does the land belong? Between land grabbing and common property
Nikolai Fuchs
Fertilising must enliven the earth
Klaus Wais
Soil fertility and the preparations
Uli Johannes König
The biodynamic preparations in context
Ambra Sedlmayr
Theme of the year 2017/18
Jean-Michel Florin, Ueli Hurter, Thomas Lüthi
Goetheanum reports - 2016 and 2017
Re: Goetheanum reports ... Now 2018
The Preparations - the Heart of Bio- dynamic Agriculture
Report from the Agriculture Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland 2018
Contents
Dear Readers,
The conference on the preparations in February 2018 which brought together more than 900 people to the Goetheanum from 47 countries, was a lively, deep and inspiring experience. The articles published in this book- let represent a concentrated extract drawn from some of the lectures, professional groups and workshops. We hope that this will make the key content of the conference more widely accessible. The theme of the preparations as well as many other key themes for biodynamic agriculture are continually worked on at the Section for Agriculture. We always welcome donations to support our work (see bank details below). Many thanks,
Ueli Hurter
Understanding the nature of substance 3 Manfred Klett
Results of research into the effects of the preparations 4 Jürgen Fritz
Biodynamic Preparations – a new relationship between earth and cosmos 6 Pierre Masson
Preparations – Call of my destiny 10 Binita Shah
Concerning ego potentiality 12 Benno Otter
The preparations as a source of life 13 René Piamonte
The preparations as a bridge between medicine and agriculture 16 Georg Soldner
Sovereignty and the preparations 20 Ueli Hurter
Memory and conscience – work on the Michael letter 22 René Becker and Jean-Michel Florin
Themed session on wine production 24 Jean-Michel Florin
Themed session – the effect of preparations on food 25 Jasmin Peschke
Themed session – the effect of preparations on soil fertility 26 Ueli Hurter
Themed session – Biodynamic herb production and the preparations 27 Michaela Spaar and Bettina Billmann
Working with biodynamic preparations in an urban food growing context 28 Peter Kearney and Bastiaan Frich
Biodynamic preparations in tropical and arid climates 30 Workshop with Angela Hofmann and Andrea D‘Angelo
Towards an understanding of the biodynamic preparation plants 31 Workshop with Jürgen Momsen and Jean-Michel Florin
Theme of the year 2018/19 The economy of agriculture 33
Report from the Agriculture Conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach/Switzerland 2018
Contents
Dear Readers,
The conference on the preparations in February 2018 which brought together more than 900 people to the Goetheanum from 47 countries, was a lively, deep and inspiring experience. The articles published in this book- let represent a concentrated extract drawn from some of the lectures, professional groups and workshops. We hope that this will make the key content of the conference more widely accessible. The theme of the preparations as well as many other key themes for biodynamic agriculture are continually worked on at the Section for Agriculture. We always welcome donations to support our work (see bank details below). Many thanks,
Ueli Hurter
Understanding the nature of substance 3 Manfred Klett
Results of research into the effects of the preparations 4 Jürgen Fritz
Biodynamic Preparations – a new relationship between earth and cosmos 6 Pierre Masson
Preparations – Call of my destiny 10 Binita Shah
Concerning ego potentiality 12 Benno Otter
The preparations as a source of life 13 René Piamonte
The preparations as a bridge between medicine and agriculture 16 Georg Soldner
Sovereignty and the preparations 20 Ueli Hurter
Memory and conscience – work on the Michael letter 22 René Becker and Jean-Michel Florin
Themed session on wine production 24 Jean-Michel Florin
Themed session – the effect of preparations on food 25 Jasmin Peschke
Themed session – the effect of preparations on soil fertility 26 Ueli Hurter
Themed session – Biodynamic herb production and the preparations 27 Michaela Spaar and Bettina Billmann
Working with biodynamic preparations in an urban food growing context 28 Peter Kearney and Bastiaan Frich
Biodynamic preparations in tropical and arid climates 30 Workshop with Angela Hofmann and Andrea D‘Angelo
Towards an understanding of the biodynamic preparation plants 31 Workshop with Jürgen Momsen and Jean-Michel Florin
Theme of the year 2018/19 The economy of agriculture 33