The Way

The Way The quiet of these early September days allows time for reflective walks. The forest is dusty and littered with dried leaves; the irrigation pond still full enough to swim in. Tuesday we will harvest a third of the grapes, but today there is time to follow the path into the woods, to contemplate… Read more »

Lavender Lessons on Flexibility

One of the old lavender plants just pulled. The new growth is so short that we were unable to harvest it even for distillation this year.     One of the big things you learn in biodynamics is to observe not only what you see but also what you feel as you see it. As… Read more »

Aldo Leopold and Goethe

A paperback version from Ballantine Books, 1966. Many of us at the conference carried this edition.                 Aldo Leopold and Goethe The principles Aldo Leopold wrote about in A Sand County Almanac, first published in 1949, are so similar to those principles in Rudolf Steiner’s Biodynamic Agriculture, and further… Read more »

HMI Practice Exercise One

            HMI Practice Exercise One We are asked to think of a simple ecosystem and make a list of the many living things living there. The question: what happens if one or two of these living things are removed? This is a part of a general principle that is also… Read more »