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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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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