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Introductory Chromatography
Chromatography offers a picture of the subtle life of soil and biodynamic preparations. Stewart Lundy introduces the method’s silver-treated filter paper and colorful patterns, then explores the attentive, flexible perception through which gardeners learn to recognize quality and become more capable caretakers.
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Cosmic Journal Entry #002
Late spring’s greening landscape sets the scene for Cosmic Journal Entry #002. May 2023’s Taurus New Moon, Ascension Day, and flowering rhythms offer occasions for horn manure, fruit and root crop care, and a thoughtful transition into transplanting time.
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Growing the Sense-Organ of the Farm
How does a farm learn to perceive? Drawing on Rudolf Steiner’s Philosophy of Freedom, Stewart Lundy explores the farmer’s observation, imagination, and intuition as living capacities of the farm itself. Practical exercises connect the universal idea of a farm with each landscape’s unique individuality.
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Spring 2023 Spring Biodynamic Gathering
JPI’s May 2023 spring gathering brought preparation making, shared meals, and cosmic reflection together in Floyd, Virginia. This invitation outlines hands-on work with horn silica, yarrow, chamomile, and dandelion, and the inner development that accompanies caring for the living earth.
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Cosmic Journal Entry #001
The first Cosmic Journal brings May 2023’s celestial rhythms into practical conversation with the garden. Doug Wilson and Max Leyf consider root and fruit crops, transplanting, the full Moon, and pauses around an eclipse and perigee, accompanied by Steiner’s Calendar of the Soul.
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Join JPI on Substack Notes
An invitation from JPI’s early Substack days to carry the conversation beyond the newsletter. This May 2023 announcement introduces Notes as a place for short reflections, photographs, reading discoveries, and questions shared among the Applied Biodynamics community.
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News From the Farm
Ben Nommay’s spring 2023 farm update follows JPI’s emerging farm organism: expanding valerian, yarrow, and nettle plantings; comparing two Barrel Compound pits; and welcoming cattle. Plans for silvopasture bring forage, wildlife habitat, and fruit and nut trees into one living landscape.
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As Above, So Below
Stewart Lundy explores biodynamic preparation making as a small-scale expression of cosmic creation. Through planetary correspondences, medicinal herbs, and animal sheaths, the essay follows the living processes that connect the compost heap, the farm organism, and the wider universe.
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How to Save Better Seeds
A seed holds a world of possibilities. Stewart Lundy connects Goethe’s plant metamorphosis and Alan Chadwick’s living idea of the seed with a practical approach to density sorting, attentive seed selection, and cultivating plants rooted in the life of your own garden.
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