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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2024: A Big Year in Review
Stewart Lundy looks back on a full year of biodynamic teaching, travel, preparation making, and publishing. From community workshops and the Agriculture Course centennial to Biodynamics for Beginners and international gatherings, this January 2025 review celebrates the relationships carrying JPI’s work forward.
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Cosmic Journal #037
Russell Blackstone follows the passage from Advent through Christmas and the Holy Nights toward Epiphany. This December 2024 Cosmic Journal joins preparation work, care for winter crops, and year-end reflection with the invitation to become a conscious vessel of love and wisdom.
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The Dynamics of Creation in Mexico
A December 2024 retreat in Mexico brought biodynamic practice, art, and imagination together through Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Spirit. Stewart Lundy recounts preparation making, soil chromatography, shared learning, and the welcoming community that gave this gathering its distinctive life.
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Healing Wounded Trees
Inspired by resinous trees and the protective work of honeybees, Stewart Lundy explores a new approach to caring for exposed tree wood. Farm observations, compost reflections, and photographs follow his early experiment with a resin coating alongside the established practice of biodynamic tree paste.
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Cosmic Journal #036
This December 2024 Cosmic Journal accompanies Advent through gratitude for plants, animals, and human spiritual freedom. Russell Blackstone connects preparation offerings and winter garden care with the alignment of thinking, feeling, and willing, leading toward the solstice and a renewed inner light.
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Giving Gifts to the Elemental World
Stewart Kahn Lundy contemplates the Three Kings preparation as a gift to the elemental world and the future of the farm. Gold, frankincense, and myrrh become a starting point for reflections on generosity, spiritual renewal, and the living promise carried through winter.
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Cosmic Journal #035
Gratitude becomes a living practice in this late November 2024 Cosmic Journal, moving from Thanksgiving into Advent. Russell Blackstone follows seasonal farm rhythms while exploring compassionate giving, the mineral and plant kingdoms, and preparation offerings that join inner work with care for the Earth.
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Sunrise to Eternity
Biodynamics becomes a welcoming path into the future in this reflection on renewal, generosity, and beginner’s mind. Stewart Kahn Lundy presents JPI’s work as helping new preparation makers and communities shine, with gratitude for everyone nurturing the movement’s next possibilities.
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What is Substack?
This November 2024 introduction explains Applied Biodynamics’ move from print to Substack and the community supporting its educational work. Stewart Lundy describes the newsletter, historical Vault articles, Cosmic Journal, and the many ways readers help sustain JPI’s wider biodynamic mission.
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Cosmic Journal
This November 2024 Cosmic Journal brings Martinmas, autumn reflection, and the approach of Advent into the life of the farm. Russell Blackstone links practical winter preparation with compassion, evening self-review, and the courage to carry spiritual warmth through the darker season.
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Intuiting Wholeness
Through images of snow, water, trees, and warmth, Stewart Kahn Lundy explores what it means to know a living whole. This meditation on farming and cognition invites an attentive, loving approach to plants and animals within the relationships that sustain their lives.
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Visiting the Goetheanum
Stewart Lundy shares impressions from the Evolving Science 2024 conference at the Goetheanum, where biodynamic research, art, and ecological renewal met. Photos and reflections highlight horn manure applications, Eduardo Rincón’s oak work, SEKEM, and the importance of locally rooted preparation making.
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