Gabrielle Soloma de Cadavid, Biodynamic Foundations Training participant; Daniela Martinez, Biodynamic Foundations Training participant; Brian Heddon, 2023 conference scholarship recipient
Thank you for engaging with the Biodynamic Association. Your support helps share healing agricultural practices that honor the life of the soil, the lives of humans, animals, and plants, and all the unseen life around us.
This season, we’re asking for your help in forging a new path for agriculture that centers care for this diversity of life.
Agriculture is at a decisive moment. Each day further steps are taken to pair the mechanical, chemical paradigm with the digital data economy. Multinational corporations are raking in record profits by exploiting life for money. Us vs. them is still the primary view of the world.
Yet you and many others are seeking something different. You value vibrant food, healthy relationships, and care for the earth. You value the core principles of biodynamic agriculture.
You can help bring biodynamics to all those affirming life. You can help bring more human creativity, compassion, and community to agriculture. Will you support this vision of a healing agriculture with a donation?
We need $50,000 to support our core work of educating and collaborating within the biodynamic movement, as well as reaching out to those new to biodynamics. We need your help in creating an agriculture that is healing for all life.
Brigid Winningham, Tucker Newman, and Michael Cordona, Biodynamic Foundations Training participants
Your gift can help bring together and strengthen the biodynamic community on national, regional, and local levels. You can support educating and training upcoming biodynamic leaders and professionals, farmers, gardeners, and land stewards. You can foster innovative in-person biodynamic workshops and conferences tailored to regional needs. You can fund collaborative biodynamic research grounded in both spiritual insight and practical focus.
Your gift of support means offering help to meet the growing needs of all those seeking a new path for a healing agriculture.
Our world is grappling with increasing polarization and complication. Coming together around foundational shared values that serve the life of the earth and all human beings is a significant act. It is a healing act. Your support of an agriculture that focuses on relationships, openness, and inquiry offers a potent medicine. It offers an opportunity for people with a practical and spiritual hunger to learn, grow, and serve.
“Biodynamics is an important part of my daily life and outlook on all living beings and how they relate to each other. It cultivates awareness, understanding, and compassion. This practice cultivates the body, mind, and spirit of the individual, land, and community. Biodynamics is for everyone.“ — Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch, New Jersey
“When I came across biodynamic farming, it served as a source of remembrance of what somehow already lived within. I quickly discovered how grounding and elevating being in the garden was. And also how delightful the other humans engaged in this way of returning to land stewardship are.” — Gabrielle Soloma de Cadavid, New Hampshire
The education and community relationships fostered by the Biodynamic Association open new doors for experience. Our work weaves common technical information with a way of learning, knowing, and doing that is unique to biodynamics. You can help build the essential capacities of active observation and co-creation with nature and humanity that are needed for the next generation of farmers and land stewards to create a healing agriculture for all of life.
April Jones, 2023 conference scholarship recipient; Carrie Ellmore-Tallitsch and Michelle Mondia, Biodynamic Foundations Training participants
“The biodynamic method of farming is a truly unique and holistic method designed to not only grow nutritious food, but also heal the planet on many levels. Enrolling in [the Biodynamic Foundations Training program] helped me understand and synthesize much more readily the teachings of biodynamics then I was able to through my own study. I am forever grateful for this course for helping me go from practically no knowledge of biodynamic farming to [becoming] a confident biodynamic farmer.” — Tucker Newman, Massachusetts
“I fell in love with biodynamic agriculture as a means to attune myself to the surrounding natural world. Through deep listening and presence, I hope to align with the rhythms of cosmic forces and elementals to guide any landscape to fulfill its potential. Putting such care into growing food for the community is a divine service I love being connected with. As a biodynamic farmer, we are literally helping to potentize each plant’s natural energies transmuted from the sun to be absorbed by other animals or humans to thrive. To me, biodynamic agriculture acknowledges the magic of being human.” — Brijid Winningham, Colorado
Your gift will also help anyone pursuing biodynamic education—whether through webinars, workshops, and courses, the Biodynamic Foundations Training, the Biodynamic Conference, or coursework at other organizations, such as the Pfeiffer Center—to benefit from these life-changing opportunities through support from the Biodynamic Scholarship Fund.
Last year alone we awarded over $43,000 to 64 recipients. Most of the awardees were new to biodynamics and BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) or from other underserved communities. Your help making our community more inclusive and diverse is our true strength.
Your donation supports the growth of heart-centered, reverent, sacred agriculture. Will you strengthen your commitment to caring for the life of the earth?
Please donate online today, call us at (262) 649-9212 x791 to donate by phone, or send a donation payable to the "Biodynamic Demeter Alliance" at 317 Church Street, Phoenixville, PA 19460.
You can contribute to changing consciousness toward creating life-affirming relationships. You can foster individual biodynamic work weaving together to create something greater. You can help the spirit of biodynamics spread healing warmth and light in a darkening world.
Please make a gift today for the agriculture and world you wish to see tomorrow.
With gratitude,
Your colleagues at the Biodynamic Association
P.S. Your gift helps forge a new path for agriculture that centers care for the life of the earth. We encourage you to make a gift today — or consider a monthly donation to make an impact all year long.
All donations will solely support the education, research, and community-building work of the Biodynamic Association, which is part of the Biodynamic Demeter Alliance.