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Devoted to Healing Our Earth
JPI’s spring 2024 workshop celebrated biodynamics’ centenary through shared work, study, and fellowship. Participants unearthed thousands of horns, made preparations, explored chromatography, and visited neighboring Spikenard Honeybee Sanctuary in a gathering devoted to healing the Earth.
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Leveling Up Your Biodynamic Gardening
Regular preparation work can become part of the garden’s everyday rhythm. Stewart Lundy shares his intensive use of barrel compound, composting of weeds, plant ferments, rapid crop succession, and complementary soil and silica sprays, offering practical ways to deepen a biodynamic growing season.
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Cosmic Journal
The Agriculture Course centenary and summer solstice meet in this June 2024 Cosmic Journal. Preparation stirring, transplanting, flowering crops, and midsummer reflection become ways to celebrate the living relationship among soil, plants, people, and the wider rhythms of the cosmos.
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Upside Down Biodynamics
Transformation lies at the heart of biodynamic preparation making. Through valerian, dandelion, manure, and horn silica, Stewart Lundy explores how a substance’s changing qualities can awaken new receptivity in soil and plants, opening a wider meditation on nourishment, imagination, and spiritual freedom.
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Gaia Workshop Summary & Photos
Valerian blossoms and lively conversation brought JPI’s workshop at Gaia Herbs Farm to life. This photographic report follows the gathering in Brevard, North Carolina, the shared harvest, and the preparation work that followed, celebrating collaboration and valerian’s important place in biodynamic soil care.
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Farm Update
An early spring at JPI brought abundant blossoms, preparation harvests, and new possibilities in the garden. Ben Nommay shares observations of dandelion and valerian, experiments with interplanting, and work to renew tunnel soil, with gratitude for the plants and support donated by the community.
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Cosmic Journal
The approach of biodynamics’ centenary gives this late-May 2024 Cosmic Journal a mood of renewed devotion. Flower gathering, summer planting, compost care, and preparation offerings connect daily farm work with lunar rhythms and the continuing life of Steiner’s agricultural impulse.
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Killing More Honeybees
From the challenges facing honeybees to the promise of a carefully tended garden, Stewart Lundy reflects on fourteen years at Perennial Roots Farm. His account explores habitat, preparation making, local adaptation, and the freedom found in cultivating a living place that can nourish others.
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Cosmic Journal
As spring approaches summer, this May 2024 Cosmic Journal brings transplanting, flowering, and preparation gathering into one seasonal picture. Pentecost offers a meditation on flowers and the meeting of upward striving with descending light, woven through practical care of crops and soil.
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Adapting Biodynamics Worldwide
Living biodynamics takes root differently in every climate and culture. Stewart Lundy explores how careful comparison, local plant knowledge, and creative understanding can carry biodynamic principles into new regions while preserving their continuity and allowing each farm’s individuality to unfold.
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Healing Bruised Soil
A hoe can do more than remove weeds: it can help soil breathe again. Beginning with rain-crusted sandy loam, Stewart Lundy explores timely, shallow cultivation as a way to restore movement of air and moisture, bringing practical garden care into a biodynamic picture of the...
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Cosmic Journal
May Day, spring sowing, and Ascension bring warmth and upward movement into this 2024 Cosmic Journal. The calendar considers fruiting crops, root vegetables, soil preparations, and horn silica, while encouraging growers to keep practical work responsive to both celestial rhythms and local conditions.
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