The Life Cycle and Social Roles of the Honey Bee
The honey bee colony is made up of worker bees, drones, and a queen. The female worker bees build wax, forage for pollen and […]
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Integrated and Diagnostic Ways of Knowing in the Student Study: A Reflexive Analysis informed by McGilchrist’s Hemispheric Framework
The student study arose from indications given by Rudolf Steiner (Steiner, 1919; Wiehl et al., 2020, pp. 176–179). It is used in Waldorf schools, […]
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What Artifical Fertilisers Do to the Soil: Insights from Alex Podolinsky
“Plants should take in elements via humus and not through the soil water” – Rudolf Steiner In the Agriculture Course, Steiner speaks of the […]
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Understanding The Biodynamic Planting Calendar
In old times, humanity had an instinctive relationship with the cosmos, and agriculture was conducted with deep reverence for these rhythms. The peasant farmer […]
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What Is Good Education in the 21st Century?
Introduction Lecturing on the introduction of public libraries across Britain in the mid‑nineteenth century, John Ruskin reflected on the many letters he received from […]
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The Fourfold Human Being: Physical, Etheric, Astral, Ego
The fourfold human being is a concept that sits at the heart of anthroposophy and biodynamics. It is of profound importance, yet it is […]
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Biodynamic Ecology and the Brain: How the Farm Organism Aids Neurodivergent Self-Regulation
The Farm as a Living Organism The Farm Organism is a fundamental concept within the biodynamic agricultural method, which began in 1924 with a […]
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The Next 100 Years Of Biodynamic Agriculture
In February 2024, I attended the 100th biodynamic conference at the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland. Here, biodynamic farmers, educators, winemakers, community leaders, and growers […]
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The Verse For Farmers By Rudolf Steiner
Seek the truly practical material lifeBut seek it so that it does not numb you to thespirit which is active in it. Seek the […]
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Alex Podolinksky – Farm Tour 2014 Video
An insightful video I wanted to share of Alex Podolinsky visiting biodynamic & conventional farms in Italy with Demeter inspectors, looking at the soil […]
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