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This six-month online course is an opportunity for those who want to explore in-depth the nature and life of the honeybee from the biodynamic perspective—an understanding which gives rise to appropriate beekeeping practices that allow the bees to thrive. Lectures on the principles of colony health will be paired with practical guidance in beekeeping through the arch of a season.

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Course Format

Explore the Sacred Physiology of the Hive Organism in a new three-part short course intensive with Alex Tuchman

Thursdays: March 19, March 26, and April 2nd 2020

One Saturday a month January 18 - April 18, 2020

With Ronni Sands

Explore the garden curriculum inspired by Waldorf Education, including developmentally appropriate activities and seasonal core lessons and tasks, with a focus on compost, class management, ecology, herbal studies, and growing and cooking food from the garden.

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People are drawn to biodynamic agriculture for a variety of reasons, but at the heart of the practice is Rudolf Steiner’s spiritual science. This body of work is broad, vast and as complex as life itself.

Inner Work Meets Outer Work: Self Development Course for Farmers and Gardeners

Explore how the activity of agriculture can inform your own personal growth

NEW DATES: January 8 - March 11, 2020, Wednesdays from 2-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST

Biodynamic agriculture was born out of the spiritual science of Rudolf Steiner. Steiner’s work could be seen as having three fundamental branches:

This practice-based course begins with a two-week residential intensive from July13 to July 25, 2020, and ends with a two-week intensive in July 2021. During the year in between, participants carry out an observation-based research project and engage in long-distance study with discussion of texts related to phenomenological, participatory science.

The course is intended for people who are deeply interested in nature and serious about developing an understanding and practice of the science of phenomena, an approach that is contextual, qualitative, and holistic.

Are there no works written in the language of flowers? - Henry David Thoreau

Our interactions with nature will become ever healthier, and support a productive co-evolution of humanity with the natural world, when they are based on a deeper understanding of nature. Can we truly see and experience nature as dynamic, interconnected and whole? That is an underlying question that will inform the week’s activities. The work will include careful sensory observation and just as careful attention to how we think about and judge the phenomena we are observing.

With Bill Day

Get off the package treadmill!

In this half-day workshop, Pfeiffer Center beekeeper Bill Day will present the biology of queen-rearing and swarming (the honeybee’s natural form of reproduction), and how to apply that knowledge to catching swarms and making your own splits. Weather permitting, much of the workshop will take place in the Pfeiffer Center garden, where Bill will demonstrate the techniques discussed in the classroom.

You will leave this workshop with clear guidelines on how to propagate your own hives and “get off the package treadmill.”

Saturday Nov.23 10:00am-12:00 we shall look over in detail Lecture 3 of Steiner's Agriculture Course

*Lunch together 12:00-1:00 (bring some lunch)

*Then at 1:00pm we shall stir and apply Pfeiffer field spray and CBDN made Barrel Compost

to the CC garden Grounds

Contact: mjudge2000@gmail.com (If you need a ride from the nearby College Park Metro Friday or Saturday let us know)