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Cosmic Journal #014
As winter begins its turn toward spring, this February 2024 Cosmic Journal follows the interplay of garden tasks, lunar rhythms, and inner attention. Orchard pruning, soil preparations, horn silica, and transplant planning become opportunities to deepen a living relationship with the farm.
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The Future of JPI: Applied Biodynamics
Applied Biodynamics entered a new chapter online after 109 print issues. This account honors the editors and contributors who shaped the newsletter and explains how a digital publication serves JPI’s enduring purpose: sharing preparation knowledge, widening access, and supporting biodynamic practice around the world.
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FOPM 2024 Conference Experience
Curiosity, shared experience, and preparation research animated the Fellowship of Preparation Makers’ 2024 gathering. This brief photographic report celebrates the people behind the work, with glimpses of yarrow preparations, valerian chromatograms, planetary tree relationships, and JPI’s participation.
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Announcement: 2024 Agriculture Course
This 2024 announcement introduced a year-long Agriculture Course study co-led by Spikenard Farm Honeybee Sanctuary and JPI. Eleven webinars brought Steiner’s foundational lectures into conversation with farming, beekeeping, preparation making, and a shared devotion to healing the Earth.
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When Should I Spray Biodynamic Preparations?
Biodynamic spraying begins with attention to the place itself. Stewart Lundy offers practical guidance for timing soil and foliar preparations by lengthening evening shadows and the first sunlight reaching plants, allowing the day’s living rhythms to guide the work through changing seasons.
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Cosmic Journal #013
Deep winter offers time to organize seeds, plan garden successions, and attend to the qualities of warmth, light, water, and soil. This January 2024 Cosmic Journal follows lunar rhythms through winter preparation work and the seasonal turn toward spring.
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Discovering Spiritual Concepts in Nature
Patient observation can deepen a farmer’s relationship with the living world. Drawing on Goethe and Rudolf Steiner, Stewart Lundy explores how attentive contemplation, a calm inner life, and daily familiarity with plants can develop perception and bring spiritual concepts into practical understanding.
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Biodynamics Turning 100
As biodynamics approached its centenary, JPI looked back on a year of expanded preparation making, a growing farm organism, and renewed educational work. This review shares 2023’s progress in cattle care, hay production, quality research, workshops, and plans for the next century.
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Cosmic Journal #012
The first Cosmic Journal of 2024 welcomes a new year of seed choices, garden planning, and attentive seasonal practice. Its January calendar connects lunar rhythms with winter soil care, dormant fruit-tree work, and the Three Kings offering at Epiphany.
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Devotion becomes the Force behind Sacrifice
Writing from Finca La Esperanza in Costa Rica, Danilo Solano Rojas explores devotion as a source of joyful, sacred work. Care for cows, soil, water, and preparations becomes an education of the whole person, joined to a commitment to share nourishing food widely.
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The Gift of Biodynamics
A gift of biodynamic education can help ideas take root in new gardens, farms, and communities. This appeal describes how subscriptions and donations support JPI’s publication, preparation research, quality control, farm infrastructure, and opportunities for hands-on learning.
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Cosmic Journal #011
Advent, the winter solstice, and the Holy Nights invite a season of gratitude and inward attention. This December 2023 Cosmic Journal connects those observances with biodynamic preparation work, the Three Kings tradition, and thoughtful care for the land as the new year approaches.
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