You are warmly invited to our annual Winter Gathering where we’ll connect with community and engage in research aimed to support the coming 2026 growing season and the future of Biodynamic agriculture in Northern California. We are delighted to return to Ridgewood Ranch, home of Golden Rule Community Gardens.
When: Saturday January 10 and Sunday January 11, 2026
Where: Ridgewood Ranch, 16200 N Hwy 101, Willits, CA 95490
See below the schedule for written directions.
Winter BDANC Gathering
Cultivating Ground for a New Agriculture / January 10 &11, 2026
Schedule Saturday
7:30 Breakfast
8:30 Welcome & Introductions
Why Biodynamic Agriculture? – Through the eyes of a farmer’s biography
9:15 Listening to the Whole: Tone Eurythmy Activity
10:15 Break
10:30 Ground for a New Agriculture: Presentation, Inner Work
12:00 Farm Tour of Golden Rule Gardens
1:00 Potluck
2:30 The Farmer and The Farm Organism: Conversation, Q&A
4:00 Coffee & Tea Break
4:30 Word Seed, Farming the Logos: Artistic Speech Activity
6:00 Dinner
7:30 Eurythmy Performance
Schedule Sunday
8:00 Breakfast
9-10:30 Lending a hand to the Farm
10:30-11:15 Biodynamics in Biography -Conversation
11:15-12:30 Closing Circle
We have a limited number of Stella Natura Planting Calendars still available for purchase and pick up at the meeting!
DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
Heading north on Highway 101, pass through Willits and Calpella. North of Calpella, West Road crosses Hwy 101. Your turn will be a little more than 7 miles after West Road. As the highway climbs steeply, watch for a left turn sign, (and a business sign set back from the road and up hill on the left that advertises an RV park.) Get into the left lane immediately, and then the left turning lane to turn into a winding road, heading downhill. Cross your first cattle guard. At the first fork turn right. Cross another cattle guard and up a little hill to the main building of Ridgewood Ranch. Park in the large parking lot in front of the building. Here is a Maps Pin Drop for exact building and parking lot: https://maps.app.goo.gl/1metEJBX6VtXSHRc6?g_st=ipc