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Current
Courses: 2007-2008 One-Year, Part-Time Training in
Biodynamics,
a Scientific and Spiritual Approach to Farming and Gardening
 (We) can
calculate in approximately how many decades (agricultural) products will
have degenerated to such an extent that they can no longer serve as human
nourishment. It will certainly be within this(20th) century....We can see
how necessary it is to derive forces from the spirit, forces that are as yet
quite unknown. This is necessary not only for the sake of somehow improving
agriculture, but so that human life on earth can continue at all, since as
physical beings we depend on what the Earth provides.
RUDOLF STEINER,
Agriculture, p. 3
As our knowledge of the
physical world has extended to the tiniest details, we have sought to
master nature with science and technology. Yet it appears that every
advance we have made in the application of our knowledge has brought with
it destructive and unforeseen consequences. We are confronting the
limitations of a materialistic approach to nature’s physical components.
In fact, physical substances — nitrogen, potassium, silica, lime...all of
them — are the end products of living processes that demand our attention,
our participation, if we intend to build and
maintain our agricultural health.
Held in 1924, Rudolf
Steiner’s agriculture lectures were titled, appropriately, “The Spiritual
Foundations for the Thriving of Agriculture”. His insights provided
practical bases for the kind of “sustainable” agriculture that our current
practices aspire to. Here are tools with which we can heal our ailing
soils, plants and animals. A spiritual understanding of nature and its
life forms will awaken greater potential for our stewardship of the earth.
Biodynamics has drawn on
the principles found in Steiner’s lectures to yield exceptional results
around the world for the last 80 years. The course described in this
brochure is offered in the conviction that biodynamics is the best way
to ensure a thriving agriculture, good nutrition…and a future for our
fragile planet. The course consists of eight monthly Saturday workshops
(with Friday workshops added in April and May) beginning in September,
2007, and ends with a three-day weekend intensive in June, 2008.
Workshop days are 9am to 5 pm..
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