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Inside Out Biodynamics
A small change in making chamomile preparation opens a larger inquiry into living sheaths and careful observation. Stewart Lundy shares his experience turning cattle intestines inside out, hanging the filled preparation through summer, and finding a supporting instruction in Ehrenfried Pfeiffer’s archival notes.
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Cosmic Journal #027
The first half of August brings summer ripeness and renewed attention to autumn crops. This 2024 Cosmic Journal follows harvests, soil preparation, compost care, and horn silica work while inviting growers to connect practical decisions with observation, gratitude, and their farm’s individual rhythm.
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Horsetail Herb–Equisetum Arvense–BD 508
From the summer 1994 Applied Biodynamics archive, Hugh Williams shares his experience making and using fermented horsetail preparation. The article explores boiling, careful fermentation, dilution, and rhythmic soil applications as part of a practical biodynamic approach to the farm’s water balance.
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Press Release: METAMORPHOSIS
In this July 2024 statement, JPI’s board announced a new phase of the institute’s development, including the decision to sell its Floyd farm. The message reaffirmed preparation making and education while placing greater emphasis on outreach, regional collaboration, and the community supporting JPI’s future.
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You Can't Take the Sky From Me
Biodynamics brings practical work into relationship with imagination, observation, and artistic judgment. Stewart Lundy explores how growers can develop confidence through a carefully tended trial area, thoughtful records, and sustained experience, allowing the garden itself to become an increasingly clear expression of living possibilities.
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Cosmic Journal
Summer harvests and the first preparations for autumn meet in this late-July 2024 Cosmic Journal. Flower gathering, ripe fruit, soil care, and fall successions follow the changing lunar rhythm, with preparation work offering time for gratitude, reflection, and renewed connection to the garden.
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Dead Warmth & Living Warmth
Part three of Dead Warmth and Living Warmth brings planetary language into the everyday garden. Stewart Lundy explores growth and ripening, mineral balance, pruning, and tree orientation as practical expressions of the interplay among soil, moisture, air, light, and warmth.
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Dead Warmth & Living Warmth (part 2 of 5)
Living warmth appears in surprising places: a compost pile, a caring animal, a generous human gesture. In part two of this series, Stewart Lundy moves from the dynamics of warmth in organisms to enthusiasm, inner practice, and the freedom to offer kindness beyond immediate circumstance....
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Cosmic Journal #025
High summer offers a chance to deepen both harvest work and calendar understanding. This July 2024 Cosmic Journal explains the relationship of elemental qualities to crop groups, follows preparation opportunities, and encourages flexible, attentive choices within the demands of a busy growing season.
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Dead Warmth & Living Warmth (Part 1 of 5)
The first installment of Dead Warmth and Living Warmth explores the contrasts that sustain a living garden. Through everyday images of warm and cool air, roots and flowers, and changing seasons, Stewart Lundy considers the plant as a meeting place of Earth and cosmos.
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The Rites of Pan and the Garden
Michael Martin reflects on personal and family encounters with the unseen life of nature and the care of his Michigan farm. Through Pan, seasonal festivals, and biodynamic stewardship, he explores a garden experienced as a place of relationship, hospitality, and spiritual participation.
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Cosmic Journal #024
Summer’s light invites both harvest and reflection in this late-June 2024 Cosmic Journal. Drawing on St. John’s time and the image of Uriel, it connects preparation offerings, crop care, and lunar rhythms with renewed attention to one’s responsibilities to the Earth.
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