Would you like to meet with other biodynamic urban gardeners, preparation makers, medicinal herb growers, or educators at the conference?
How about talking about farmland succession or the future of seed saving work?
Meetups and discussions will create space for conference participants to self-organize informal conversations where they can share questions, ideas, and experiences with one another during the following meals at the conference:
Anyone is welcome to host a meetup or discussion, and you can sign up to host in advance or on site at the conference.
Each meetup will be assigned a table in the ballroom and topics, times, and locations will be posted on this page and on signage at the conference center.
Time | Title | Organizer | Meetup Description |
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Friday dinner 6-7pm |
Crafting Anthroposophical Medicine from your farm |
Ylara Khalsa |
Are you already crafting remedies from your plant material? Let's create a group of interested farmers crafting medicine to support one another and present our products to the public, anthroposophical nurses and doctors. Also, a group where we may share our findings and continue research. Let's create strategies that help our efforts thrive on all levels. |
Friday dinner 6-7pm |
Individuality of the Farm Online Course Gathering |
Cory Eichman |
For participants who took the Individuality of theFarm online course last fall or who are currently enrolled. After going through 22 sessions together, it's time to socialize in person! And for those of you just beginning the course, this will be a chance to get to know one another and build community around the course, as you continue your learning. |
Friday dinner 6-7pm |
Biodynamics Bridging the Americas | Sarah Weber | This meetup is for anyone interested in creating more connections, communication and mutual support among biodynamic practitioners and groups throughout the Americas - Central, South, North, Caribbean. It follows from the pre-conference workshop of the same theme. |
Saturday breakfast 7am-8am |
Indigenous pathways into the Land |
Stephen Clarke |
All cultures have pathways, doorways leading into relationship with the beings that constitute the spiritual identity of the Land. If you have experience with this and wish to share it or to find out more about your own ancestral links . . . let's share. This could be preliminary to my own presentation Saturday night, but I am most interested in what others can bring to the discussion. |
Saturday & Sunday lunch 1pm-2pm |
North American Biodynamic Apprentice Program Info Session/Orientation for interested and existing apprentices |
Anthony Mecca, NABDAP Coordinator |
Are you an aspiring agriculturalist looking to develop the skills and knowledge you need to develop a successful biodynamic farm? The North American Biodynamic Apprenticeship Program (NABDAP) may be for you! A program of the BDA, NABDAP combines 24 months on farm training with classroom study, farm visits, and an independent project. A carefully crafted curriculum and skills checklist help guide your learning This meetup will give an overview of the program elements and provide a space for questions and conversation from both new and interested apprentices as well as those working through the program. Current and graduated apprentices are certainly welcome! |
Friday lunch
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New Mexico Biodynamic Group |
Melinda Bateman, Stephen Clarke, Sam Hitt, Steven McFadden George Wright, |
The New Mexico Biodynamic Group formed earlier this year. We are an assembly of farmers, gardeners and supporters with a shared interest in biodynamic ways of caring for the land and bringing forth it’s bounty. We respectfully invite interested residents of New Mexico to join with us to seed biodynamic farming and gardening knowledge, techniques and tools more widely. At our meetup after Friday lunch during the conference we will have a chance to introduce ourselves to each other, and to consider how we might further associate. Here's the link for our New Mexico Biodynamic Group's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/NMBiodynamics/ All are welcome. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Farm-Based Educators (FBEIBA) |
Nicki Robb | Join us if you are interested in exploring ways to connect schools with farms and gardens; share your work with children in Nature; if you are interested in connecting with other educators working in this field. We will look at the next steps for FBEIBA, what is being asked of us as farm-based educators and where we go from here to help meet our children today. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
#FarmLife: Building Relationships Through Social Media | Rebecca Briggs | How can social media help farms, organizations, businesses, etc, build community relationships? Are there particular challenges or opportunities related to talking about biodynamics in this realm? Please join us if you would like to share the lessons you've learned or ask questions of others working with these networks. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Biodynamic Educators |
Cory Eichman |
A couple of years ago the BDA initiated and hosted several events and meetings for a network called the Biodynamic Educator's Collaborative. This meetup is to see if we want to build on that work to develop the network further, or go in a completely different direction. If you are interested in Biodynamic education and would like to share experiences with others, please join us. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Taking Back Public health for the People |
Steven Johnson D.O.
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You are invited to a conversation about re-defining public health and an initiative to form and independent outreach to pursue this goal. Research and experience supports the philosophy that factors of early childhood development, lifestyle, sustainable sources of nutrition, ecology and an integrative model of health and medicine is the best way to support quality of life. Together these three pillars presented by Rudolf Steiner in the 1920's as Waldorf Education, Biodynamics and Anthroposophic Medicine and Therapy contained a model for the future of healing and health that would be validated. The time to join with others who support the need to pursue our freedoms to realize this goal for the "good" of all us has come and we are forming a foundation to engage this goal. All are welcome who are interested. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Fellowship of Preparation Makers |
Wali Via |
This meetup will introduce those interested in learning about the Fellowship of Preparation Makers. The Fellowship puts on an annual conference in different regions of North America to share and develop our understanding of the biodynamic compost and spray preparations. You will learn about this year’s conference and the other activities of the Fellowship. This is a great opportunity to connect with folks that make the preparations and to learn how you can become involved. There will be biodynamic preparations on display as well. |
Saturday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Walking the Mystical Path with Practical Feet |
Barbara M.V Scott |
Learn to grow nutrient dense food, build ecologically friendly dwellings, recent findings and research on the light yam (Dioscorea batatas) and its application for healing the earth via techniques of sacred agriculture. The School for the Practical and the Sacred will provide the experience and the knowledge of ecological construction (cob, wood and bamboo), growing nutrient dense food, land stewardship, heirloom seed cultivation and research into the etheric realm. See brochure. |
Saturday & Sunday lunch 1pm-2pm |
Agritoursim & Africa Safari |
Julius Sonko | Have you ever thought of visiting Africa and enjoying unforgettable sites and weather? Well, here comes a chance!!! Eatbeta International Foundation is a nonprofit organization whose vision is to transform agriculture in Africa by training rural smallholder farmers. Eatbeta relies on volunteer experienced farmers, from world over, to provide hands-on training to rural African farmers in quality crop farming, animal farming, using farm equipment, etc. These short-term training programs are designed to last for 7 to 14 days during summer and fall seasons. After the training program, volunteers are treated to a 4-day safari excursion to some of Africa’s unforgettable and breathtaking sites. |
Saturday dinner 6-7pm |
Agriculture Section of the Anthroposophical Society | Sherry Wildfeuer | Join our meetup if you have any questions or want to learn more about the Agriculture Section of the Anthroposophical Society. |
Photo courtesy Blaire Ladd