Our mission is to heal the earth...you can join us.

We have been supporting gardeners and farmers in their practice of biodynamics
since 1985. We provide:

Biodynamic Preparations of the highest quality for plants, fields and compost.
Educational Workshops and Consultation to gardeners and farmers.
Books on biodynamics and related topics.
Applied Biodynamics, our quarterly newsletter.
E-news updates to keep you up-to-date on biodynamic happenings.
Research to support the practice of biodynamics.

Biodynamics takes you beyond organics and offers you a roadmap to enhance the vitality of your farm or garden. Biodynamic preparations and indications for planting, cultivating and harvesting allow you to work with the life forces that increase the physical health of your soil, plants and animals.

"Nature is a great totality; forces are working from everywhere. He/she alone can understand Nature who has an open sense for the manifest working of her forces." - Rudolf Steiner

"The most important thing is to make the benefits of our (BD) preparations available to the largest possible areas over the entire earth, so that the earth may be healed and the nutritive quality of its produce improved in every respect." - Rudolf Steiner

"In compost we have a means of kindling the life within the earth itself." - Rudolf Steiner


ASSOCIATIVE CONTRACT

Advantages: Discount up to 20% Plus Free Consultation

Starting January 2012, Final Deadline March 31, 2012

APPLIED BIODYNAMICS Newsletter of the Josephine Porter is $30.00 four issues per year. However, if you have an Associative Contract we will offer your subscription for only $20.00 per year.


Queen of the Sun, DVD

DVD

Queen of the Sun is now available to order on DVD for University, College and K-12 library and classroom use.


BOOK REVIEWS – NEWLY RECEIVED TITLES:

BOOK REVIEWS – NEWLY RECEIVED TITLES:

JPI has recently added the following new titles

Osthaus, Karl-Ernst, The Biodynamic Farm – Developing a Holistic Organism, Floris Books, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 2010. (First published in German in 2004). 93 pp. $14.95

To my knowledge this is one of the few available titles in biodynamic literature that makes an effort to address Rudolf Steiner’s concern that the farm “individuality” ought to possess the ‘due amount of cattle.’ Steiner expressed that concern at the very beginning of the second lecture of the Agriculture course, and while many people have subsequently spoken and written about the farm individuality, the author of this book


Biodynamic Remedies for Tomato and Potato Blight

Biodynamic Remedies for Tomato and Potato Blight

1. Bring 1 unit #508 (1.5 ounces by weight of dried herb) to boil in 1 gal H2O, and simmer for 1 hr.

2. Cool and transfer to crock or glass container ( metal? plastic?) - Order of preference is clay crock, glass, copper, porcelained metal, non-magnetic stainless steel, other metals, plastic.

3. Store in cool place and let ferment for 10-14 days until starts to smell.

4. To use add 1 part #508 tea (fresh or fermented) to 9 parts water, (rainwater, or if chlorinated expose to sun for a day).


Josephine Porter Institute (JPI) Certification On BD Preps

Please Note: All Biodynamic Preparations are listed by OMRI in the Generic Materials List as follows -

Biodynamic Preparation
Status:Allowed
Class:Crop Management Tools and Production Aids
Origin:Nonsynthetic
Description:
Includes horn manure spray (500) horn silica (501), yarrow flowers (502), chamomile (503), stinging nettle (504), dandelion (506), valerian (507), and horsetail (equisetum)spray (508).

Please call or email for a copy of Products for Use in NOP Organic Farm Production.


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