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Standing on Common Ground
A journey through Colorado and Utah becomes an invitation to let biodynamics take root in each place. Stewart Lundy shares conference work with Lloyd Nelson and Russell Blackstone, soil chromatography, desert landscapes, and reflections on learning to belong to the land we tend.
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Cosmic Journal #039
Winter farm planning meets the approach of Candlemas in this January 2025 Cosmic Journal. Russell Blackstone follows soil care, compost, and early sowing while exploring the Festival of Unbornness and the quiet preparation for new life within the deep season of winter.
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Just a Drop: Chromatography and the Tiniest Entities
What can a tiny addition of horn manure reveal in a soil chromatogram? Stewart Lundy and Jacob Gibbons compare sandy-loam samples with small doses of stirred preparation, sharing photographs and observations that connect soil character, humus care, and the art of seeing living relationships.
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Cosmic Journal #038
Epiphany opens the new year in this January 2025 Cosmic Journal, bringing the Three Kings offering into a wider practice of gratitude and renewal. Russell Blackstone follows the return toward Candlemas through winter farm care, crop planning, and conscious participation in the living world.
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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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