Biodynamic Agriculture Weekend

All events are at the Mountain View campus.

Friday Evening Lecture
7:00 - 9:00 pm

Biodynamics: A Healing Impulse for the Earth

by Harald and Cynthia Hoven
Eurthmy Room

Probably the most comprehensive system of organic and sustainable farming in the world, Biodynamics was developed by Rudolf Steiner in 1924, just as European growers first began to notice that their crops were losing their vitality, and the chemical industry was beginning to pour synthetic fertilizers into agriculture. With its unique insight into holistic life systems and the relationship of the earth and the universe, biodynamics offers unique approaches to heal and steward our planet.

Special Tree Planting & Blessing Saturday 12:15 - 1:45 pm Everyone Welcome! Workshop registration not necessary.

Suggested donation: $15 to cover costs
To pay in advance , please click here - or pay at the door.

Saturday Workshop
9:00 am to 5:30 pm

Composting and the Biodynamic Preparations
with Eurythmy

Compost recycles wastes and transforms them into life-giving food for the earth. Learn how the biodynamic preparations enhance the process of composting to offer new vitality and harmony to the soil and the entire ecosystem.

Eurythmy

Dynamic experience working with the forces of life.
Through eurythmy we can enter into a personal, somatic experiences of the concepts offered in the lectures.
With Cynthia Hoven

Practical experiences in building compost piles

Participants will join Harald in building a compost pile. Bring your kitchen wastes!

Horn manure preparation

Preparing the biodynamic preparation and applying it to the land.
We will stir the preparation and apply it to our school gardens.

Workshop cost: $75, including Friday lecture and lunch
To register for the workshop, please click here.
(limited to 30 participants)



Harold Hoven is director of Raphael Garden, master gardener, faculty member, and founder of BDANC (Biodynamic Association of Northern California). He teaches the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening workshop series, leads evening study groups, and teaches gardening and phenomenology to students enrolled in programs at the college. He has worked at Rudolf Steiner College (RSC) for 25 years and is well known as a regional and international speaker on biodynamic farming and gardening.

Cynthia Hoven received her eurythmy diploma from the Goldridge Eurythmy School in 1979, and then traveled to the Goetheanum in Dornach, Switzerland, where she joined the stage group for two seasons. Cynthia became the director of the Weekend Foundation Studies program at RSC and assumed responsibility for teaching all the eurythmy classes. Following a dream she has long held, Cynthia founded the Eurythmy training at Rudolf Steiner College in 2002.