Tierra Viva: Farming the Living Earth


2016 North American Biodynamic Conference, Nov. 16-20 in Santa Fe, NM First installment in the Tierra Viva series By Thea Maria Carlson “The most remarkable feature of this historical moment on Earth is not that we are on the way to...

A Mid-Winter Festival


By Megan Durney, Pfeiffer Center There is a special quality about the mid-winter time of year, between January 15 th and February 15 th . Here on the East Coast, we try our best to imagine the next season’s beauty and bounty during...

Reflections on the Biodynamic Winter Intensive


The Biodynamic Winter Intensives were held at the Nature Institute and Hawthorne Valley Farm during the weeks of February 8-12 and 15-19. Jonathan Code from Crossfields Institute International , based in Stroud in England, joined the faculty for...

Only What Is Fruitful Is True


By Stewart Lundy I went to Hugh Courtney’s November, 2015 biodynamic practicum at Earth Legacy Agriculture in Floyd, Virginia, with the expectation that I would get some practical experience working with the preparations. I learned...