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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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Against Interpreting Chromatograms
Stewart Lundy invites a patient, attentive encounter with biodynamic picture-forming methods. Drawing on fourteen years of chromatography and daily farming, he explores how looking, making, and returning to the images can deepen perception of each soil’s individual character and living context.
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The Language of Birds
Barn swallows, purple martins, and the sound of moving water guide Stewart Lundy’s reflection on birdsong and biodynamics. The essay invites attentive listening to the farm’s living atmosphere, where sound, movement, and care for wildlife become part of a shared natural symphony.
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Letter From the President
This June 2026 letter celebrates the early reach of JPI’s Merit Grant and the stories of growers receiving preparations around the world. Teresa O’Shaughnessy shares progress, community encouragement, and the generosity keeping this biodynamic gift economy in motion.
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Biodynamics: Pseudoscience or Prescience?
Stewart Lundy makes a case for approaching biodynamics with open attention, practical experience, and careful inquiry. Exploring Goethean observation, preparation making, and soil assessment, the essay presents biodynamic insight as a creative starting point whose agricultural fruits can be studied and shared.
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A (Bio-Dynamic) Easter
Welcome spring through preparation sprays, seedling care, and the first dandelion harvest. Written for Easter 2026, this Biodynamic Digest connects the season’s renewal with horn manure, equisetum, Barrel Compound, and the joyful work of helping a new growing year take root.
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Pruning Fruit Trees and Biodynamics
Fifteen years of orchard experience inform this reflection on establishing and caring for fruit trees. Stewart Lundy considers compacted soil, planting conditions, biodynamic preparations, and thoughtful pruning, showing how practical attention becomes an expression of lasting care for the trees themselves.
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Biodynamics and the Internalized Solar System
From the seed and sweetness of a plum to the digestive life of a cow, Stewart Lundy traces planetary processes within earthly organisms. The essay presents the biodynamic farm as a living microcosm, cared for through sound husbandry and the harmonizing work of preparations.
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The ABCs of Biodynamic Agriculture
Learn to read the garden through the interplay of Earth and cosmos. This Biodynamic Digest explores lime and silica, nourishment and ripening, and contrasting climates, offering a practical language for recognizing the polarities that shape plant growth and guide biodynamic care.
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Farming like a Bodhisattva
Stewart Lundy explores farming as a widening circle of service through the image of the bodhisattva. Drawing on Masanobu Fukuoka and Rudolf Steiner, the essay connects wildlife habitat, biodynamic preparations, gratitude, and social responsibility with the future of a flourishing Earth.
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To Gather Together
Biodynamics grows through shared work, generous teaching, and small acts of care for the Earth. Reflecting on the 2026 Fellowship of Preparation Makers gathering, this digest explores community, accessible preparation use, and the enduring influence of teachers whose practical inspiration continues to bear fruit.
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Letter from the President
JPI president Teresa O’Shaughnessy announces the first JPI Merit Grant in this January 2026 letter. Rooted in gratitude and reciprocity, the initiative invites recipients to use biodynamic preparations, share their experiences, and pass the gift onward through their own communities.
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