2025 Spring Gatherings
You are warmly invited to join us in our preparation making endeavors this spring! May is the month... here are a few gathering sites to take note of:
Saturday May 10th 1-4pm
BeeWilder Farm, Spring Mills PA
Introduction to biodynamic spring prep making
(see flyer below)
Wednesday May 14th at 4:30pm
Kimberton Hills Camphill Village, Kimberton PA
We will be making 501, digging up compost preps, stirring and spraying barrel compost
Friday May 16th at 10am
Wyck House and Gardens, Philadelphia PA
Digging up Horn Manure, burying Horn Silica, spraying barrel compost
With the yearly exhaling of the earth’s life force energy commencing, we take our cues from Nature and prepare to make our spring preparations. In this season of levity and expansion we gather to grind and crush quartz crystals and other forms of silica to create a fine sand. Next add some spring water and thicken into a pancake batter paste. Pour this into a cow’s horn and set it upright for a few hours; the water will rise to the top and can be poured off. And you are left with a solid mass of crystal powder in your horn. Find some nice clay and cap the horn, or bury uncapped opening side down in a hole as deep as your forearm during spring.
From the Cycle of the Year Lecture -
The Earth (red) has just breathed out; the soul is still half within the Earth, but the Earth has breathed it out; the streaming soul-forces are pouring out into the cosmos. Whereas since December, the force of the Christ Impulse has been intimately bound up with the Earth, with the soul-element of the Earth, we find that now this Christ Impulse, together with the outward-streaming soul element, is beginning to radiate around the Earth (arrows). This which here as Christ-permeated Earth-soul is flowing out into spiritual cosmic space, must be met now by the force of the sunlight itself. And the mental picture arises: While in December the Christ withdrew the Earth-soul element into the interior of the Earth, in order to be insulated from cosmic influences, now with the out-breathing of the Earth, He begins to let His forces breathe out, to extend them to receive the forces of the Sun (das Sonnenhafte) which radiate toward Him. And our schematic drawing will be correct if we represent the Sun force (yellow) as uniting with the Christ force radiating from the Earth. The Christ begins to work together with the Sun forces at Easter time; hence Easter falls at the time of the out-breathing of the Earth. But what happens then must not be related to the light flowing back from the Moon; it must be related to the Sun.
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The Southeast Pennsylvania Biodynamic Association (SEPBDA) seeks to inspire social, environmental and spiritual renewal through the art and science of biodynamic Agriculture.
Through SEPBDA we have the opportunity to:
Gather an interchange of people who are practicing or interested in biodynamics
Share our collective knowledge, learn from each other and grow through study
Get reports from the national and global biodynamic farming community
Learn about the preparations by making them together
We have Seasonal quarterly meetings
(Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall)
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