Fall Equinox with the Bees & Preparation Making Festival

Type: 
Workshop
Class
Community Event
Festival
Meeting / Gathering
Date: 
Thu, 09/18/2025 to Sat, 09/20/2025
Region: 
Southeast

All students and friends of Spikenard are invited to join in three days of gratitude and celebration of the bees, the landscape, and our own inner transformation. This is a time we get to know and work with the hives from the periphery through three days of special lectures and activities, art and music making, and tending of sanctuary land, the "body" of the beehive.

Beekeeping Winter Preparation Workshop

Type: 
Workshop
Class
Presentation
Date: 
Sat, 09/13/2025
Region: 
Southeast
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In this workshop we will look at what needs to be done in the fall in order to let the hives go into the winter as strong and healthy as possible, and also take a look at the winter and early spring months, probably the most difficult time of the year for the bees. We will take a closer look at the various illnesses and probable causes, as well as share our methods of hive feeding, wrapping, and consolidation for best possible over-wintering success.

Spring Plant Study

Type: 
Workshop
Date: 
Fri, 05/02/2025 to Sun, 05/04/2025
Region: 
East Coast

with Craig Holdrege and Staff

Friday, May 2, 7:00 pm - Sunday, May 4, 12:30 pm

Together, we will closely observe spring flora, attending to interdependent life processes and the way plants engage with their springtime world. This will be an interactive workshop with time spent studying the plants outdoors.

Sliding scale fee: $150 - $300.

Please register with info@natureinstitute.org.

natureinstitute.org

JPI Late Spring Preparation Workshop

Type: 
Workshop
Community Event
Date: 
Fri, 06/13/2025 to Sun, 06/15/2025
Region: 
East Coast

Josephine Porter Institute Late Spring Preparation Workshop

June 13-15, 2025

The mission of biodynamics has always been one of fostering health for the purpose of universal human freedom.

The goal of the “farm organism” is so that every farm might source from within its own boundaries, all its own fertility needs that stream in from the cosmos.

Standing Between Heaven and Earth: A Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Workshop

Type: 
Conference
Workshop
Community Event
Date: 
Mon, 11/03/2025 to Sun, 11/09/2025
Region: 
International - outside North America

In this 6-day workshop we will study and practice biodynamic principles. We will learn how we can improve the fertility of the soil on a practical level and also work with the spiritual formative forces of the universe, through ceremony and the use of the biodynamic preparations. Truly living and working between Heaven and Earth.

Experience how our small community works together to honor mother earth and our unseen helpers, the elemental and nature beings.

Teachers: 

Walter Moora (US), Biodynamic Farmer for 50+years