Biodynamic Agriculture

Service Description

BOOKING AT -- http://www.bdacollege.org.uk/introduction-course/ This Introduction to Biodynamic Agriculture course is a distance learning course designed for anyone who is interested in biodynamic agriculture and wants to know more. All you need is a few hours a week, an internet connection, and a good dose of curiosity. Whether you are interested in eating high quality food, growing plants and raising animals in collaboration with nature, drinking natural wines or savouring and supporting the soil, this course will introduce you to the principles of biodynamic agriculture, which seeks not only to collaborate with and sustain nature but to go beyond that to regenerate both agriculture and ecology. This four-week, £50 course offers everyone an opportunity to understand biodynamic agriculture. The four weeks will include live (and recorded) seminars as well as plenty of resources (videos, reading, images and links) so that students can explore at their own leisure the aspects of biodynamic agriculture that interest them. So if you are biodynamically curious, keep reading! Week 1 – Biodynamic Agriculture in Context How is biodynamic agriculture situated in the world now? Where are there biodynamic farms and what do they produce? Where did biodynamic agriculture come from, what does it mean and how is it placed in the history and wider context of agriculture? How do you know something is biodynamic? Week 2 – Biodynamic World View How can our understanding of nature inform our practice in agriculture? Does it matter how we think about nature, culture, food and vitality? What are the principles of biodynamic agriculture? What is the understanding of nature that informs biodynamic agriculture? What is a ‘farm organism’? Week 3 – Biodynamic Practice The seminars for this week are not taught by a single individual, instead this week will include conversations with farmers to give students a flavour of how biodynamic agriculture works on the ground, on different continents and in a variety of situations. It will include: What are the biodynamic preparations? What is a sowing calendar and how does it work? How do farmers work with biodynamic principles in different situations around the world? Week 4 – Getting Involved How can you move from interest to engagement? What can you do at home? What could you read? Who can you talk to? Where can you learn more?