Living Farms: Biodynamic perspectives worldwide

We talk with Jean-Michel Florin about the importance of food quality. 
Jean-Michel Florin is the co-head of the Section for Agriculture. He is a trainer and educator for biodynamic farmers and those to come.

We talk about how consumers experience the quality of biodynamic food and why food quality is more than just the nutrients. How perceiving food quality can be trained and how to understand the relationship between food intake and personal energy levels. Do you want to know more about our work?
Agriculture Conference 2022 "Quality through biodynamics - perceive, experience, develop" --> https://www.agriculture-conference.org/2022Video Lecture "Biodynamic quality - does it really exist?" with Jean-Michel Florin --> https://goetheanum.tv/programs/anthroposophie-erweiterung-wissenschaft?cid=2613923&permalink=die-biodynamische-qualitaet-florin-peschke

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Julia Wright has a background in international research and development, seeking to integrate ecological (organic and permaculture) thinking into conventional agricultural systems and organisations, including in humanitarian settings. After studying at Trinity St David (University of Wales), Silsoe College (Cranfeld University) and Wye College (London University), she worked for some years in South America before undertaking a PhD at Wageningen University, The Netherlands, on the coping strategies of the Cuban farming sector during the country’s period of food and fuel shortages in the 1990s, resulting in the Earthscan publication Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security in an Era of Oil Scarcity: Lessons from Cuba (2009). Returning to the UK in 2003 to lead the International Programme of the organic NGO Garden Organic (formerly the Henry Doubleday Research Association), in 2011 she was involved in establishing the Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience at Coventry University, where she has since been developing a research programme in the applied discipline of Subtle Agroecologies.
She is engaged in the work of the Biodynamic Association UK and was part of the conference committee of the 2nd International Biodynamic Research Conference 2021 on the theme ”Growing beyond Resilience”.
In this episode, we will talk about her connection to biodynamics and her published book "Subtle agroecology: farming with the hidden half of nature". We exchange about the potential and difficulties of biodynamic research and what she is looking forward to researching in the future. Do you want to know more about our work? International Conference on Biodynamic Research 2021 --> https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/thematic-areas/research Check out our websites: www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org Instagram @section_for_agriculture Facebook @sektion.fuer.landwirtschaft 

We talk with Ueli Hurter about the historical development of biodynamic agriculture.Ueli Hurter is the co-head of the Section for Agriculture (since 2010) and a member of the executive council of the General Anthroposophical Society (since 2019), the board of directors at Weleda (since 2019), member of the supervisory board of the Biodynamic Federation Demeter International (BFDI) (since 2021). 
We will explore in this episode how biodynamic agriculture developed and why it is still relevant today. We discuss how it spread to all the climate and cultural zones of the world. We exchange about the progression of themes in the biodynamic movement and many more. Do you want to know more about our work? Agriculture Conference 2023 "Evolving agriculture - 100 years of biodynamics: looking back to look forwards --> https://www.agriculture-conference.org/2023
New publication of the agriculture course --> https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/publications/books/sv/neuerscheinung-landwirtschaftlicher-kurs-rudolf-steiner  Check out our websites: www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org Instagram @section_for_agriculture Facebook @sektion.fuer.landwirtschaft 

In the first episode, we talk with Jean-Michel Florin about the importance of the own perception. Jean-Michel Florin is the co-head of the Section for Agriculture. He is a trainer and educator for biodynamic farmers and those to come.  We will explore in this episode why climate change increases the need to become more aware of the perception of your farm, your surrounding, and your landscape. In particular when it is a biodynamic farm. We are talking about the theories of Rudolf Steiner behind your own perception and why it may even help you to increase your economic efficiency at your farm. And why it may feel difficult to share your own perception and to talk about it openly in the public. However, your perceptions can be validated by exchanging with others more easily.  Do you want to know more about our work? Get to know more about the Living Farms perception project --> https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/perception Check out our upcoming online course about "The farm organism for planetary health" --> https://www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org/en/deepen-biodynamics/3-farm-organism  Check out our websites: www.sektion-landwirtschaft.org Instagram @section_for_agriculture Facebook @sektion.fuer.landwirtschaft 

The Section for Agriculture invites the worldwide biodynamic movement to join the discussion. This is the opportunity to put forward ideas, strategies, principles and approaches in current biodynamic practice, research, training and processing. 

The debate focuses in particular on how to work with the current challenges of our times. 
Have you always wanted to find out what actually underlies biodynamic agriculture, how the research on this is carried out, how it has developed and who is currently leading the movement? Or are you interested in how biodynamic ideas such as the agricultural organism, land-based animal husbandry and the training of perception are currently put into practice in different parts of the world? 
Then you have come to the right place. 

The podcast is intended for all those who are curious to learn more about biodynamic agriculture and its approaches to solving our present-day problems. 

Check out all recent episodes on our website www.livingfarms.net 

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