Fellowship of Preparation Makers

REGISTRATION

Gathering: $300 Pre-gathering Intensive: $50 Gathering & Intensive: $350

To register for the event email: FOPM@protonmail.com
Please make checks out to "FOPM" and for early registration mail to:
Petra Zinniker
N 7399 Bowers Rd
Elkhorn, WI 53121

LODGING

Limited homestays available.
Airport transportation available.
For local information and lodging contact: Marjory House gobiodynamic@gmail.com
(541)942-1300
Transportation:
Tim Wilson
twilson0130@yahoo.com

Please bring samples of biodynamic preparation 504 (stinging nettle) for the observation exercise and items to contribute to the silent auction.

THURSDAY

Pre-gathering Intensive: Pre-registration Required!

8:30 Arrive at Conference Site
9-6 Farm Tours: Goodfoot Farm, Winter Green Farm, and Singing Creek Farm

OR
12-3:30 Wine Intensive with Garett Long and Nicole Tracy of Troon Vineyard and

Farm: From Soil to Cellar-
Accessible Biodynamic Practices for Vineyards and Wineries
Including approach, planning, biodynamic applications, infrastructure, biodynamic wine making basics, Demeter certification standards, and more!
6:30 Dinner
7:30 Opening: Seacoast Eurythmy Presentation

FRIDAY

7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10:30 Welcome & Introduction 10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 Dan Ditzler: Goethean Observation for Preparation Evaluation 11:15-12:30 Delmar McComb: Plants, Planets and Protoplasm
12:30-2 Lunch
2-2:45 Eurythmy with Karen McPherson 2:45-3 Break
3-4:15 Carin Fortin: Reunification of the Kingdoms as Healing Principle, Planetary Relationships, and the Seven Life Processes 4:15-4:45 Break
4:45-6 Harald Hoven: Amplifying the Life Giving Forces of the Plant Kingdom Through the Preparations
6-7:30 Dinner
7:30-8:45 Gina Nonini: The Sacramental Nature of Biodynamic Preparations

SATURDAY

7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10 Walter Goldstein: Biodynamics, Microbial Partnerships and Gut Health 10-10:30 Break
10:30-11:45 Ian Hunter: Soil Microscopy and the Biodynamic Preparations
11:45-12 Discussion
12-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:15 Eurythmy with Karen McPherson 2:15-2:30 Break
2:30-4 TBA
4-4:30 Break
4:30-6 Ben Nommay & Dan Ditzler: Preperation Evaluation
6-7:30 Dinner
7:30 Entertainment

SUNDAY

7-7:45 Eurythmy with Karen McPherson 7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-10 BonnieTarwater: An Interspecies Prayer: I Love You, I Love You, I Love You! Amen

10-10:30 Break
10:30-11:30 Review
11:30-12:30 Wali Via: Closing Ceremony 12:30 Lunch
2 Affinity Groups

FEATURED SPEAKERS

Garett Long: Troon Vineyard & Farm Nicole Tracy: Troon Vineyard & Farm Dan Ditzler: Seven Stars Farm
Delmar McComb: Blossom's Farm Karen McPherson: American Eurythmy

School
Carin Fortin: Blossom's Farm
Harald Hoven: Biodynamic Educator Gina Nonini: Marian Farms
Walter Goldstein: Mandaamin Institute Ian Hunter: Cure Soil Compost
Ben Nommay: Spikenard Honeybee

Sanctuary
Bonnie Tarwater: Reverand from the

Church of Our Common Home Wali Via: Winter Green Farm

OUR MISSION

The Mission of the Fellowship of Preparation Makers is to ensure that good quality biodynamic preparations are available now and into the future throughout North America.

"The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope." Wendell Berry

"Behold the plant:

It is the butterfly

Fettered by the earth.

Behold the butterfly:

It is the plant

Freed by the cosmos."

Rudolf Steiner Harmony of the Creative Word

Photo Credits: Wali Via & Dawn Rains

Fellowship of

Preparation Makers

Gathering

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The Preparations Through
the Lens of the Plant Kingdom

28-31 January 2027

Center for Rural Livelihoods 80574 Hazelton Road Cottage Grove, Oregon