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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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Cosmic Journal #033
As autumn deepens, Russell Blackstone reflects on preparation making, the Earth’s inward movement, and the living work of the elemental world. This October 2024 journal pairs seasonal garden guidance with All Souls reflections and a renewed appreciation for horn silica’s balancing role.
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Update: Fall Biodynamic Workshop 2024
A photo-rich account of the October 2024 biodynamic workshop at Perennial Roots Farm celebrates preparation making, shared meals, and community. Stewart Lundy reflects on practice as a path of the will while recounting the gathering’s horn manure work, Barrel Compound making, and conversations.
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In Search of Vitality
Gaby González and Marcela Armas introduce Mirrors of the Holobiont, an artistic inquiry into the relationships between people and living soil. Through soil chromatograms and iris imagery, the project explores biography, inherited patterns, beauty, and the interconnected wholeness of land and life.
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Cosmic Jounal #032
This October 2024 Cosmic Journal follows the deepening autumn through harvest, preparation making, and the courage of Michaelmas. Russell Blackstone brings lunar rhythms into conversation with daily farm care, community warmth, and the work of carrying inner light toward winter.
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Towards a New Herbalism
Stewart Kahn Lundy explores a renewed herbal imagination through close observation of plants, their growing conditions, and their transformations. Drawing on Paracelsus and Rudolf Steiner, he considers how living relationships among root, leaf, flower, and environment can inspire future biodynamic preparations.
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Cosmic Forces & Earthly Substance
Stewart Kahn Lundy revisits the Agriculture Course through the living relationships between roots, flowers, fruits, and seeds. This illustrated meditation traces cosmic forces and earthly substance into practical garden decisions, revealing plant growth as an interplay of nourishment, generosity, and balance.
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From the Vault: The Heart of Clay
Dennis Klocek explores how careful cultivation can awaken the “heart” of heavy clay soil. Reprinted from Fall 1995, this practical essay brings together compost preparations, rhythmic fermentation, plant materials, and attentive soil work to cultivate a porous, living garden loam.
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Rebuilding Trust and Open Communication
In this October 2024 letter, JPI President Teresa O’Shaughnessy calls for renewed trust, transparent communication, and a listening relationship with the wider community. She introduces the new board’s direction and clarifies the timing of preparation work and consideration of the Institute’s land.
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