Applied Biodynamics Archive (001 - 109)

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Applied Biodynamics — Issue No. 089 (Spring / Summer 2016)

Issue 089 of Applied Biodynamics documents preparation-maker coordination, horn silica protocols, sequential spray me...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue No. 024 (Fall 1998)

Issue 024 of Applied Biodynamics documents rigorous preparation-making protocols for stinging nettle (BD 504), pepper...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 031 (Winter 2000–2001)

Issue 031 (Winter 2000–2001) presents the Michaelmas impulse through personal experience and programmatic reflection,...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 029/030 (Spring/Fall 2000)

Issue 029/030 (Spring–Fall 2000) combines a cultural reflection on the end of the twentieth century with detailed, st...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 028 (Winter 1999–2000)

Issue 028 (Winter 1999–2000) deepens the technical treatment of BD “peppering” through a second, more exacting analys...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 027 (Fall 1999)

Fall 1999 confronts financial and regulatory pressure on biodynamics and presents a detailed, practice-based explanat...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 026 (Spring 1999)

Issue 026 (Spring 1999) addresses biodynamic preparedness at the Y2K threshold through preparation self-reliance, bri...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 025 (Winter 1998–1999)

Issue 025 (Winter 1998–1999) focuses on winter stewardship—detailing preparation storage and handling, compost protec...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 023 (Spring/Summer 1998)

Issue 023 (Spring–Summer 1998) addresses regulatory clarification around “barrel compost,” formalizing the term Biody...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 032 (Spring 2001)

Issue 032 (Spring 2001) documents lived biodynamic experience through an interview with Ruth Zinniker, evaluates prac...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 015 (Spring 1996)

Issue 015 documents multi-year field trials using pokeberry and pine seed sprays for slug deterrence, examines compar...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 014 (Winter 1995)

Issue 014 documents major staffing and governance changes at JPI during 1995, explains why the newsletter is being re...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 013 (Fall 1995)

Issue 013 features an extended interview with biodynamic pioneer Richard Okorn detailing rotations, on-farm preparati...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 012 (Summer 1995)

Issue 012 expands BD #501 practice by comparing quartz with feldspar and orthoclase theory, presents Dennis Klocek’s ...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 011 (Spring 1995)

Issue 011 documents direct seeding methods with quantified labor and soil inputs, extends biodynamic composting theor...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 010 (Winter 1994)

Issue 010 documents a detailed livestock interview grounded in forage-based management and farm economics, clarifies ...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 009 (Fall 1994)

Issue 009 documents fall biodynamic field practice through practitioner interviews, contrasts “ordinary” vs biodynami...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 008 (Summer 1994)

Issue 008 documents summer application schedules for BD #501 and BD #508 from a multi-grower survey, reports hands-on...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 005 (Fall 1993)

Issue 005 (Fall 1993) brings Applied Bio-Dynamics into its most explicitly documented phase to date, combining season...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 007 (Spring 1994)

Issue 007 documents seed soak protocols using biodynamic preparations (with a crop-to-preparation table), surveys spr...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 003 (Spring 1993)

Issue 003 (Spring 1993) advances Applied Bio-Dynamics from conceptual framing and preparation instruction into explic...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 002 (Winter 1992)

Issue 002 (Winter 1992) continues the foundational work begun in Issue 001, expanding Applied Bio-Dynamics into a mix...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 006 (Winter 1993)

Issue 006 documents Hugh Courtney’s sequential spraying technique with step-by-step instructions, includes milk and m...
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Applied Bio-Dynamics — Issue 004 (Summer 1993)

Issue 004 (Summer 1993) consolidates historical memory, practical results, and theoretical framing within Applied Bio...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 038 (Fall 2002)

Issue 038 (Fall 2002) documents how biodynamic methods are applied in vineyards through detailed practitioner intervi...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 037 (Summer 2002)

Issue 037 (Summer 2002) teaches BD 502 yarrow preparation-making in full operational detail, interprets yarrow’s func...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 036 (Spring 2002)

Issue 036 (Spring 2002) documents Hartmut von Jeetze’s lifetime-anchored, comparison-driven approach to biodynamic fa...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 035 (Winter 2001–2002)

Issue 035 (Winter 2001–2002) is a concentrated dossier on the Three Kings Preparation, combining interpretive framing...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 033 (Summer 2001)

Issue 033 (Summer 2001) clarifies Michaelmas as a practical impulse for disciplined action, reports concretely on JPI...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 039 (Winter 2002–2003)

Issue 039 (Winter 2002–2003) presents practitioner case studies on the Three Kings Preparation and milk-and-honey spr...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 034 (Fall 2001)

Issue 034 explores Michaelmas as a practical seasonal orientation, documents a controlled field observation using the...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 033 (Summer 2001)

Issue 033 revisits the Michaelmas 2000 article to clarify institutional and fiscal realities at JPI, documents hands-...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 043 (Winter 2003–2004)

Issue 043 presents multi-farm reports on biodynamic preparations used under stress conditions, updates correct valeri...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 042 (Fall 2005)

Issue 042 provides a complete, method-driven treatment of the oak bark preparation (BD 505), detailing bark harvest c...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 041 (Summer 2003)

Issue 041 documents Heinz Grotzke’s six decades of biodynamic herb and compost work, publishes a quantified recipe fo...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 040 (Spring 2003)

Issue 040 documents Joe Francis’s six decades of compost-based soil regeneration using Pfeiffer BD Compost Starter, r...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 022 (Winter 1997–1998)

Issue 022 presents Manfred Klett’s in-depth treatment of the yarrow preparation (BD 502), documents hands-on procedur...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 021 (Fall 1997)

Issue 021 interviews Gunther Hauk on biodynamic teaching and farm practice in Europe and the U.S., publishes a lab-ba...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 020 (Summer 1997)

Issue 020 updates planetary occultation research with a 1998 schedule, provides practical specifications for large st...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 018–019 (Winter 1996 / Spring 1997)

This double issue publishes Hugh Courtney’s Moon–Saturn occultation alert with an observation schedule and mitigation...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 017 (Fall 1996)

Issue 017 publishes a long-form interview with Hugh Williams detailing on-farm seed production across a CSA-scale mar...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 016 (Summer 1996)

Applied Biodynamics Issue 016 explores midsummer as a period requiring refinement rather than stimulation, emphasizin...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 051 (Winter 2005–2006)

Issue 051 documents biodynamics as an educational pathway through an extended interview with L.A. Rotheraine, present...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 050 (Fall 2005)

Issue 050 documents a guided experiential workshop on elemental and ancestral forces, publishes revised practical dir...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 048 (Spring 2005)

Issue 048 documents the lived history of early biodynamic practice in North America through an extended interview wit...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 047 (Winter 2004–2005)

Issue 047 documents a rare series of Jupiter occultations and proposes a time-bound sequential spray protocol centere...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 046 (Fall 2004)

Issue 046 reprints Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s practical introduction to biodynamics, critiques reductionist N-P-K fertilit...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 045 (Summer 2004)

Issue 045 (Summer 2004) centers on Manfred Klett’s lecture “The Biodynamic Preparations as Sense Organs,” framing pre...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 044 (Spring 2004)

Issue 044 (Spring 2004) centers on sequential spray and blessing practices at Chrysalis Farm, detailed reporting from...
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Applied Biodynamics — Issue 052 (Spring 2006)

Issue 052 addresses real-world environmental remediation using biodynamic preparations, documents post-Katrina field ...
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