What does the JPI spring preparation season include in Issue 103?

Issue 103 shows JPI moving purposefully from winter planning into preparation orders, harvesting and cultivating preparation plants, sourcing horns and organs, packing BD 500, teaching workshops, applying field sprays, and developing pasture. Tree Paste, late-frost BD 507 valerian, the spring equinox BD 500 and BD 501 sequence, and biodynamic-calendar study bring this preparation work into a coordinated whole-farm rhythm.

How do Spiritual Foods and Kimberton Farm extend biodynamic food access?

Spiritual Foods for the New Millennium has connected metropolitan Washington, D.C., consumers with biodynamic and organic farms since 1997 through fair farm payment, reliable transport, neighborhood pickup sites, prepacked boxes, half shares, supplemental foods, volunteer coordination, winter production, and community service. Frank Kurylo describes Kimberton as a 10-acre Demeter-certified farm whose partnership with Spiritual Foods helps serve more than 400 member households; 11 greenhouses support year-round production.

What spray pattern should be used for BD 500 compared with BD 501?

BD 500 is intended to reach the soil in larger drops. BD 501 should be applied as a fine mist over plant foliage.

How did Jack McAndrew advance biodynamic compost making and teaching?

Issue 103 honors Jack McAndrew as a master biodynamic compost maker and teacher. His practice united exact standards, careful study, intelligent adaptation to farm conditions, close observation, and reverence for even the smallest material in the pile. He shared this knowledge generously, helping farmers recognize biodynamic compost making as a high agricultural art whose results become visible in living soil, food quality, and the health of the farm organism.

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Applied Biodynamics — Issue No. 103 (Spring 2022)

Issue 103 presents JPI’s coordinated spring preparation work, an urban CSA operating since 1997, Kimberton’s 10-acre Demeter system serving more than 400 households, and Jack McAndrew’s biodynamic compost legacy.

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Applied Biodynamics, Issue 103 (Spring 2022) opens with spring as the farm year’s true beginning. JPI moves from winter planning into preparation orders, flower and leaf gathering, horn and organ sourcing, workshops, field sprays, and expanded cultivation of yarrow, valerian, chamomile, nettle, and dandelion. The spring checklist brings this rhythm into farm practice through Tree Paste, late-frost valerian, equinox applications of BD 500 and BD 501, and continued study of the biodynamic calendar.

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Mary Maruca’s profile of Spiritual Foods for the New Millennium documents a consumer-founded urban CSA operating since 1997 and connecting metropolitan Washington, D.C., with biodynamic and organic farms. Its strengths are practical and repeatable: fair farm pricing, reliable transport, neighborhood drop sites, volunteer coordination, prepacked boxes, half shares, supplementary foods, winter production, and community service. Over more than two decades, the CSA grows by solving one logistical problem at a time while keeping soil, nutrition, farmers, and members in one relationship.

The companion profile of Frank Kurylo and Kimberton CSA shows how a ten-acre Demeter-certified farm feeds more than four hundred member households across its own CSA and Spiritual Foods. Eleven greenhouses, winter greens, stored roots, manure from the neighboring Seven Stars dairy, and attentive seasonal transitions extend production through the year. Frank’s work with BD 500 and BD 501 belongs within a whole-farm rhythm of planning, greenhouse management, field observation, labor, and personal steadiness.

The memorial section honors Jack McAndrew as a master of biodynamic compost. His students remember a teacher who joined exacting standards with practical adaptation, experimentation, careful study of the Agriculture Course and planting calendars, and reverence for the smallest entity in the pile. Compost making emerges as a high agricultural art whose results appear in soil vitality, food quality, and the living farm organism.

Taken together, Issue 103 shows biodynamics moving from inner commitment to visible systems: preparation work on the farm, food distribution across a city, year-round protected growing, and compost knowledge passed faithfully from teacher to student.

Articles in This Issue

From the Editor — Mary Maruca
News From the Farm — JPI Staff
Exploring Spiritual Foods, An Urban CSA — Mary Maruca
Introducing Frank Kurylo, Kimberton Farmer
Crossing the Threshold — Jack McAndrew
Jack McAndrew, A True Gem — Stefan Hagopian
What’s Happening With the Fellowship Conference?
Dandelion Blossoms Sought

Key Topics Covered

Spring preparation orders, material gathering, workshops, and farm renewal
Tree Paste, BD 507 frost support, and equinox BD 500 and BD 501 spraying
Consumer-founded urban CSA design and biodynamic food access
Fair farm pricing, transport, drop sites, half shares, and winter shares
Kimberton’s year-round Demeter greenhouse and field system
Whole-farm integration of dairy manure, protected growing, and preparations
Jack McAndrew’s exact, practical, and reverent compost method
Transmission of biodynamic knowledge through mentorship and records

Repeatable Practice in This Issue

Forecast spring preparation needs by acreage and keep one shared calendar for gathering, packing, workshops, orders, storage, and field applications.
For the equinox sequence, apply BD 500 in mid or late afternoon and BD 501 the following morning before the dew has dried; record weather, soil moisture, crop stage, timing, and field response.
Track CSA membership, routes, box contents, share sizes, winter supply, volunteer hours, waste, and farmer payment so the system improves through each season.
For compost, record dimensions, materials, proportions, moisture, temperature, preparation placement, turning, aroma, structure, and finished humus.