Community

By Nell Hanssen: Farming and gardening is a magic all its own, as we immerse ourselves in the earth’s cycles of life and death, the faith we sow with each seed we plant, the gratitude of the harvest, and the season of rest while we anticipate an annual, but still miraculous, rebirth each spring.

By Zachary Krebs: I knew somewhere inside my heart that this event would put me back into a good place. Touching the soil, listening to lectures and activating my curious mind, and seeing old friends was the remedy I didn’t know I needed.

We invite you to join members of the biodynamic community in commemorating Manfred Klett and his profound impact on the global biodynamic community.

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.