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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

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