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Human Freedom and the Farm Individuality
A farm individuality creates room for life to flourish in its own way. In the second Human Freedom essay, Stewart Lundy explores local fertility, adaptation to place, demonstration farms, and apprenticeships as practical foundations for a freer, more generous agricultural culture.
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Cosmic Journal #008
Michaelmas brings courage, harvest gratitude, and the first autumn preparation applications into Cosmic Journal #008. This September 2023 entry follows the transition toward root and flower days, transplanting time, and JPI’s fall gathering beneath a changing autumn sky.
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Human Freedom and the Plant
What would freedom mean for a plant? Stewart Lundy opens a three-part series by exploring balanced nourishment, seed saving, and crop rotation as ways to help plants express their own character. Biodynamic care becomes an invitation to carry life’s inheritance creatively into the future.
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From Hand to Heart to Head
Biodynamic understanding grows through doing. Stewart Lundy traces a path from the work of the hands to the feeling life of the heart and the clarity of thought, showing how repeated preparation making and community learning can transform both the farm and the farmer’s imagination....
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Fall 2023: Biodynamic Community & Skill Building Opportunities
As the 2023 growing season turns toward autumn, Russell Blackstone invites the biodynamic community to learn and gather together. This historical roundup connects regional preparation workshops, Michaelmas celebrations, and a national conference with the value of friendship, shared practice, and learning from elders.
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Your Darkness Shall be Turned into Light
Stewart Lundy follows the plant from dark, nourishing soil toward light, flower, and fruitful renewal. Compost, horn manure, horn silica, and cover crops become part of a larger meditation on balance, generosity, and transforming the inheritance of the past into future life.
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The Cashmores
At Nyonger in Western Australia, the Cashmore family brought biodynamic care to 4,800 acres of challenging country. Jon Bradshaw’s profile follows recovering salt-affected land, softer soils, deeper roots, and a practical farming system built around prepared horn manure, sheep, and close observation.
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Cosmic Journal #007
September 2023 opens with ripening fruit, shifting transplanting rhythms, and preparation work for changing conditions. Cosmic Journal #007 follows the Moon through the crop signs and considers horn silica and sequential spraying as part of an attentive transition toward autumn.
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Demeter International Colloquium on Biodynamic Preparations
This 2023 colloquium invitation brings the animal’s role in biodynamic preparations into focus. Angela Hoffman of Sekem and Stewart Lundy of JPI were invited to share experience from Egypt and the United States, linking healthy farm relationships with the quality of preparation materials.
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Fanning the Flame of Life with Biodynamics
Stewart Lundy pictures soil fertility as a living fire that needs nourishment, air, and attentive tending. Compost, horn manure, valerian, and horn silica each enter this exploration of stored vitality, fresh sunlight, and the yearly renewal of the farm’s life.
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The Embroidery of the Spirit
A garden can be read as an embroidery of living forces. Stewart Lundy uses the image of needle, thread, canvas, and guiding design to explore how spirit, vitality, and matter work together—and how sensitive care for plants can grow from perceiving their greater whole.
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Cosmic Journal #006
Cosmic Journal #006 turns from summer abundance toward autumn preparation. Alongside August 2023’s crop and spray windows, it invites early planning for cover crops and recalls Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s attention to horn-manure burial near the autumn equinox.
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