Summer Meeting at Summerfield Waldorf School
Jun
21
to Jun 22

Summer Meeting at Summerfield Waldorf School

  • Summerfield Waldorf School & Farm (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Let us gather and return again to Summerfield School and Farm for the BDANC Summer Solstice Meeting! As the Sun reaches its  zenith in the sky, we will come together to share and celebrate another year of Biodynamic Agriculture. Come join us as we look closely at the Valerian plant through Geothean observation with Dr. Daciana Iancu, and in pastel drawing with Denise Sacks.  

Through social exercises with Luke Frey, and Eurythmy with Lilith and Sebastien Dupuis, we will explore the qualities of warmth, both in the plant world and with each other. Together we will be making the valerian and stinging nettle preparations. Farmers and interns will lead us as we talk together about our deepest farming questions. This gathering is appropriate for parents, teachers, farmers, doctors, interns and anyone interested in exploration of the healing properties of Biodynamic Agriculture.


REGISTER HERE


Child care: Children are welcome and there will be cared for by Summerfield students. We ask for a donation from parents. 

Participants will be asked to sign up for a volunteer job at you arrive at the welcome table.

When: Saturday June 21 & Sunday June 22 / Where: Summerfield Waldorf School, 655 Willowside Rd, Santa Rosa, CA 95401

Food: Saturday lunch is the ever amazing pot luck. Please bring a dish to serve at least 4 people and your own cutlery, plate, cup and bowl. Catered meals for purchase must be pre-reserved by TUESDAY June 17th. 

Meals: 

Saturday Breakfast: $12

Saturday Dinner: $20

Sunday Breakfast: $15

Apprentice prices are $4 less per meal.  

Schedule:
SATURDAY - June 21st - 7 AM to 9 PM
7am - Catered breakfast (cost payable with registration)
8am - Eurythmy with Lilith and Sebastian Dupuis
8:30 -  Circle: Welcome, announcements, schedule, introductions 
Introduction to Biodynamics - with Eric Landowne
9:00 -  An Experience of Warmth - with Luke Frey
9:30 -  Break
9:45 -  Dr. Daciana Iancu - Goethean observation - Valerian and Nettles
10:45 - Artistic activity - with Denise Sacks
11:45 - Call for food for potluck
11:55 - Farm Tour with Birgit Landowne
12:40 - Lunch
2:30 - Rebecca Briggs introduces the Biodynamic Association of America
3:00 - Break out groups:
1) Prep Making with Harold Hoven
2) Discussion Circle with Elizabeth Kaiser from Singing Frog Farm and Isabelle Young from Three Springs Community Farm. What is the farming life and how does one make a life in farming?
5:00 - Break
6:00 - Catered Dinner - pizza in the cobb oven
7:30 - Bonfire Conversation and reflectioin

SUNDAY -  June 22nd - 8 AM to 12 PM
8:00 - Breakfast
9:00 - Circle for group discussion
10:00 -  Rebecca Briggs speaks about the BDA and its relationship to Regional Groups
11:00 - Eurythmy and Closing picture with Lilith and Sebastian Dupuis
12:00 - Volunteers help with clean-up and pack up 

Please take your RSVP seriously, it helps organizers prepare the facilities and meals! 

This form accommodates one adult registration. If you are more, fill out the form again for each additional person over the age of 12. 

Site camping questions contact Birgit at birgit64landowne@gmail.com. General questions Cheryl  at csp@sonic.net

REGISTER HERE

View Event →
Spring Gathering 2025 “Light Into Darkness” at Heartwood Farms
Apr
26
to Apr 27

Spring Gathering 2025 “Light Into Darkness” at Heartwood Farms

  • Biodynamic Association of Northern California (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us for this year's Spring 2025 BDANC gathering exploring Light: What is light? What is the relationship of light to darkness? How do we work with the phenomena of light in our agricultural practice?  How does light transform into fruit? Ehrenfreid Pfeiffer, bearer of Biodynamics to North America, recounts that the word “biodynamic”  was chosen by the initial group of experimenting farmers 100 years ago as meaning, “a working with the energies which maintain life.”  He goes on to point out that the biological aspect began to reveal itself in science in the first half of the 20th century, yet,  “Despite recognition of the importance of the biological conditions of ecological relationships…all of this still gives no answer to the question of energy, to its source…the dynamic side still waits understanding to which Rudolph Steiner pointed the way.”

This weekend offers sense perception and experience based inquiry into the role of light in human capacities and Biodynamic farming practices. Particular attention will be brought to the use of the Horn Silica and Horn Manure preparations, their polarities and how they complement one another. Practical work will include making Horn Silica and applying it to the land. Horn Manure and other winter buried preparations will be dug up and observed. The weekend's work together will be participatory and accessible to all levels of experience. 

We are excited to return for the second year to Heartwood Farms' cherry and walnut orchards for the Spring Meeting 2025. Program Lead by Franz Eilers, Emma Wade, Sebastian Dupuis, Lilith Dupuis, and Harald Hoven.

When: Saturday April 26 & Sunday April 27th / Where: Heartwood Farms, 21355 E Walnut Dr. Linden Ca, 95236

Food: Saturday lunch is the ever amazing pot luck of everyone’s offerings. Please bring a dish to serve at least 4 people, your own cutlery, plate, cup and bowl. Dinner and Sunday breakfast are provided catered for purchase and must be pre-reserved by TUESDAY April 22nd.  

Please take your RSVP seriously, it helps organizers prepare the facilities and meals! 

Program Schedule

Saturday April 26

9:00 am Digging up Heartwood's buried biodynamic preparations with Harald Hoven & Franz Eilers 

9:30 am Check-in with Coffee & Tea 

10:00 am Opening Circle & Eurythmy with Sebastien Dupuis 

11:00 am  Exploration of Inner and Outer Light with Lilith Dupuis & Emma Wade

1:00 pm Pot Luck Lunch / Table Talk 

        Table for: 

         Farmers 

         Garden Teachers/Educators  

         Farm Apprenticeships

2:30 pm BD Preparation Making - Horn Silica with Harald Hoven

4:00 pm How do we work with the phenomena of light in using biodynamic preparations? With Sebastien Dupuis, Lilith Dupuis & Franz Eilers

6:00 pm Dinner & Campfire

7:30 pm Games for Embodying Nature and Nurturing Inner Light with Emma Wade

9:00 pm Woodfired Sauna 

Sunday April 27

5:00 am Large & Small Scale Silica Stir with Sebastien Dupuis & Franz Eilers 

6:15 am Sunrise Silica Spray 

8:00 am  Breakfast / Breakout Group Table Talk Continued  

9:30 Closing Circle: What lit up for you? 

Invitation to stay after and help out on the farm for an hour or two. 


View Event →