September 2021

Online at the Organic World Congress

The deep principles and innovative practices of biodynamic agriculture can be taken up by any farmer or gardener wanting to enhance the health and vitality of their soil and the food they grow. We will explore the unique and practical ways that you can apply biodynamics to grow the most nutrient-dense and vibrant food possible, build soil organic matter, revitalize landscapes, and protect the climate by bringing more carbon into the living realm.

September 2021

Online at the 2nd International Biodynamic Research Conference

In the current situation we have so many challenges: climate change, diseases, loss of biodiversity, and more. There is a need for a new kind of research to overcome these new challenges. Biodynamics was already from its beginning an agriculture for the future. Now we have to look at the future from the future. How can we sense which issues come from the future? More than ever not possible to solve the problems with the methods which created them. In this panel a farmer, an early child educator, and a doctor explore what it means to grow beyond resilience.

with Jane Swain and Dr Kan Anek

March 2020

New Orleans, Louisiana

Do you want to collaborate more effectively with your colleagues and partner organizations? Would you like to see everyone on your team stepping into leadership and bringing the full capacity of their intelligence and creativity to their work? In this interactive workshop, we will share successes and challenges from the Biodynamic Association’s 5+ years of action research developing a living, evolutionary and highly collaborative way of working. We will share specific tools and discuss the benefits and drawbacks of these emergent ways of working in relation to fostering diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice within an organization.

with Raphael Guzman

January 2019

Pacific Grove, California

Biodynamic agriculture is a holistic, ecological, and ethical approach to crop production that views the farm as a living organism: self-contained and self-sustaining, responsible for creating and maintaining its individual health and vitality. In this session, we will cover the history of biodynamics and examine what biodynamic agriculture is in principle and practice. We will also address the current biodynamic movement as well as resources that are available in the region and nationally.

July 2018

Minneapolis, Minnesota

With increasing awareness of the harmful practices and toxic substances in the conventional food system, people across the supply chain -- from farmers to processors to retailers to consumers -- are seeking regenerative agricultural solutions that can feed a growing population while nurturing the health of the earth, the climate, and humanity. Biodynamics is a holistic, ecological, and ethical approach to agriculture that creates biologically diverse, self-sustaining farms; brings carbon out of the climate and into the living realm; and generates abundant, flavorful, and nutritionally dense food. Learn how this growing movement is transforming the practice and culture of agriculture, and explore the critical role that retailers can play in helping to bring biodynamics to the forefront of our food system.

July 2018

Oahu, Hawai’i

The biodynamic approach to composting is rooted in understanding, sensing, and engaging with compost as a living entity. This participatory workshop will demonstrate hands-on compost making as a pedagogical tool to decolonize post-secondary education. From identifying compostable materials available on campus to collaboratively building a compost pile using the biodynamic preparations, we will weave physical activity and skill-building together with an emphasis on observation and perception to move from an objectification model to a relational model of working with food and farming.

June 2018

Central Otago, New Zealand

The Biodynamic Association is celebrating our 80th anniversary this year, and has gone through many phases and transformations. The past decade has been a time of tremendous growth and development for the BDA, and Thea's 7 years of working with the BDA have also been an incredible journey of growth—as a farmer and land steward, as a practitioner of biodynamics, and as an organizer and leader. Thea will share highlights of the BDA's recent work, including the growth in our educational programs, conference, scholarship fund, communications and outreach, and social justice work, as well as the beginnings of a new collaborative vision for the future of the biodynamic movement in North America which we are currently building together with Demeter USA and a number of other partners.