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Under the Microscope
What sustains the diverse life seen under a microscope? Stewart Lundy explores the nourishment and habitat that make thriving soil biology possible, connecting biodynamic preparations, careful observation, and the farm organism. JPI’s preparation samples provide a practical meeting point for this wider perspective.
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Cosmic Journal #010
From Thanksgiving into early December 2023, Cosmic Journal #010 follows the season’s inward movement. Root-day soil care, morning horn silica, transplanting rhythms, and time with family weave practical preparation work into the growing quiet of the year.
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Gratitude for a Successful Conference
Stewart Lundy offers heartfelt thanks for the 2023 Biodynamic Demeter Alliance conference. Gathering face to face renewed friendships, sparked conversation, and rekindled a shared commitment to the earth—an invitation to carry the movement’s next century forward through community and creative participation.
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Biodynamics in the Dry Tropics
In Baja California Sur, José Aviña and Stewart Lundy explore biodynamic growing through the gestures of palms, salty water, and a dry tropical landscape. Native plants, layered shade, compost, and careful observation offer ways to develop a garden in living conversation with its region.
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The Future of Biodynamics
Approaching biodynamics’ centennial, JPI reflects on a renewed commitment to the living farm organism. This 2023 update connects its own cattle, expanded herb gardens, preparation research, practical education, and the digital future of Applied Biodynamics with an evolving vision of service.
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Update: Experimental 500 Horn Manure
JPI’s 2023 preparation work comes into view through comparative chromatograms and a radish-germination exercise. Stewart Lundy and Ben Nommay explore the character of well-transformed horn manure, root-cellar preparation, and finished compost, using close observation to deepen practical quality assessment.
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Job Opening at JPI & Invitation: Demeter Colloquium on Biodynamic Preparations / Invitacion
This November 2023 update marks a staff transition at JPI and looks outward to biodynamics’ worldwide community. An international colloquium brings preparation making in dry climates, Indian cultural traditions, and tropical agriculture into a shared conversation about working faithfully with place.
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Cosmic Journal #009
Garlic, cover crops, and autumn preparation work shape Cosmic Journal #009. The late-October 2023 entry follows the sky into November, linking root-day soil care and Pfeiffer Field and Garden Spray with a subsequent morning offering of horn silica.
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Interpreting Chromatograms
Barbara Shinn introduces two complementary ways to read chromatograms: the qualities expressed in concentric zones and the whole image’s warmth, light, tone, and life. Illustrated preparation and compost examples invite a deeper, more attentive understanding of what unfolds beneath the surface.
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The Farmer's Almanac of the Spirit
M Mueller shares how Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul can become a farmer’s inward companion to the seasons. Autumn verses, daily attention to the sky, and a simple zodiac board connect the work of fields and herds with the changing life of the human soul....
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Making Biodynamic Preparations
JPI’s fall 2023 workshop renewed a living tradition of practical preparation making, friendship, and music. More than 5,000 manure-filled horns went into the ground, while participants made Barrel Compound and buried the herbal preparations begun in spring—carrying shared experience into another season.
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Human Freedom and The Artist
The concluding Human Freedom essay turns toward art and the creative life. Stewart Lundy connects a farm’s growing independence with the time, knowledge, and vitality needed for human expression, exploring the gardener and artist as participants in bringing living possibilities into form.
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