pre-conference workshop

This workshop will focus on the potential to grow and sustain a new food economy by forging more transparent and cooperative relationships among farmers, distributors, retailers, consumers, and other stakeholders. It will highlight the work of individuals, businesses, and organizations that are successfully innovating in this realm and provide a conceptual framework for understanding and replicating these efforts, drawing on Rudolf Steiner's associative economics as well as contemporary research and development in the field of integrated supply chains.

Biodynamic preparations, along with application of the principles underlying their use, are an artist's palette of colors to create landscapes that give rise to vibrant life as well as food, fiber, and raw materials of amazing quality and abundance. Though often biodynamics is referred to as a practice, its more skilled practitioners may think of it as an art form that produces the nuttiest winter spinach; the most inspiring tarragon, basil, or ginger; the most delicious apples or cherries; and the subtlest fine wines.