Field Notes
Letter from the President
In this Michaelmas 2026 letter, JPI president Teresa O’Shaughnessy shares the move of packing and shipping to Perennial Roots Farm and introduces the people carrying the work forward. The update renews JPI’s commitment to accessible preparations while honoring a season of rest for its Floyd...
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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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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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