workshop

This workshop will provide people who are early on in their exploration of biodynamics with a clear and lingo-free understanding of the spiritual-scientific background to biodynamics and how these insights inform biodynamic principles and practices. Though biodynamics can be successfully practiced by anyone, with or without this knowledge, this background is necessary to understand why biodynamics works and to distinguish it from a religious belief system.

Biodynamics is on the forefront of carbon sequestration and helping to regenerate the Earth. Learn about what you can do on even the smallest of plots to combat the effects on huge stretches of land desecrated by the conventional agriculture of violence. We will explore humus-building, compost, mycorrhizal fungi, livestock rotation, and applied biodynamics.

Philip Lyvers is working with esoteric science to create health in a large-scale hog herd and fight disease for which the swine industry only has one answer: vaccines. By working with esoteric/occult sciences and consciousness, he has been able to make changes and improvements in the herd — and has 18 years of extensive records to help him describe the changes he sees and why they occurred.

This workshop will describe and show the different key aspects considered in biodynamic production in Germany and development of the biodynamic approach in farms from Mexico and Guatemala. As key aspects for crop production are considered soil fertility and health, plant nutrition, biological control, irrigation systems, co-workers happiness, biodynamic greenhouse production, bio-preparations application, and effect on the whole system.

This workshop will showcase the biography of the biodynamic movement in India and its current transformation to meet the needs of farmers from an emerging future.

By using concepts and practices derived from biodynamic agriculture, nurseries of all scales can evolve into using more sustainable and much healthier growing methods. Commercial nurseries often use cocktails of chemical pesticides, fertilizers, artificial growth regulators, and unsustainably harvested, sterile container mix ingredients to produce plants for home gardens and commercial landscapes. While many farmers have transitioned into biodynamic/organic approaches, nurseries have been slower to evolve because of the unique challenges presented by growing plants in containers.