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By Anthony Mecca: What is your ideal of the agriculture of the future? This was the work of over 700 participants from forty-seven countries around the world at this year’s International Biodynamic Agriculture Conference in Dornach, Switzerland, February 5-8, 2025.

By Daniela María Escudero: Reflections on the 2025 Fellowship of Preparation Makers Gathering in Viroqua, Wisconsin. There is true magic in creating a space—physical and spiritual that fosters fertile soil for all kinds of learning, growing and evolving.

By Karen Davis-Brown: On the winter evenings of December 7 and 8, a group of twelve of us came together online from across the continent to explore more deeply our relationship to carbon in the world and carbon’s relationship with the solar system.

By Anthony Mecca: Throughout the week we walked a path towards fostering healing relationships: between human beings and the natural world, between human beings, and between the realms of nature.

By Michael Roboz: Celebrating Ruth Tschannen, who brought biodynamics to urban spaces in Vancouver, British Columbia, and inspired her community.

BDA Member & Supporter, Robin Hulbert, shares his story of farming and pursuing biodynamics with his wife and community in New Hampshire.

By the Unification Nucleus Group: As we begin the new year, we are excited to be witnessing and participating in the cocreation of a new entity that has been long in the making—97 years after Rudolf Steiner gave the Agriculture Course in Koberwitz, 83 years after the founding of the Biodynamic Association in the U.S., and 36 years after the founding of Demeter USA and the Josephine Porter Institute.

In preparing for the Online Biodynamic Conference, the time is perfect for making a small (or large!) gift to the Biodynamic Scholarship Fund. Salima Taylor, after receiving scholarship funds to attend the 2019 conference, has found a healing way forward during this tough year.

By Seth Jordan: When we look to Rudolf Steiner’s work for help in social and societal transformation, we find that his focus in this work is primarily on society itself — understanding the living, dynamic lawfulness of the “social organism.”

By Anna McAvoy-Emrick: An exciting development in the state of Michigan in 2020 has been the formation of a new biodynamic regional group.