Demeter Canada Partners with Ecocert Canada Starting 2017 Season Demeter Canada is pleased to announce a partnership with Ecocert Canada to provide both client and inspection services for Demeter Canada farms and processors. Beginning with the 2017 inspection season, Ecocert Canada will be managing all Demeter Canada client files and completing all Demeter … Read more…
Earth Haven Learning Centre Presents The Esoteric Principles of Yarrow Sunday, August 20, 10am to 3pm Jonathan Code from Crossfields Institute, Stroud, England will share his insights and observations on how esoteric principles of yarrow influence farming and gardening practices. Jonathan will also facilitate an exploration of how biodynamic preparations are relevant in agriculture. … Read more…
The Demeter-Community is Grieving for Ibrahim Abouleish Ibrahim Abouleish, founder and chair of the Sekem-Initiative in Egypt, died on 15th of June at the age of 80. The Demeter-Community is grieving for a pioneer of the Biodynamic movement in Egypt. “With Ibrahim Abouleish we lose a great visionary and an important mediator in the cultural dialogue”, said … Read more…
Co-creating the future: Demeter-International adopts criteria for economic cooperation In the face of current challenges in food and farming – devastating milk prices for conventional dairy farms, extreme weather events as a consequence of climate change, financial speculation on farm land – the urgent need for a paradigm change in food and farming systems becomes more and more … Read more…
Earth Haven Farm is proud to announce the completion of the Earth Haven Learning Centre Inc. http://www.earthhavenlearning.ca/ This is a new building that has been constructed here at Earth Haven Farm that will allow us to process fruits and vegetables from the fields, ready for farmers markets, CSA programs and to be canned or … Read more…
Demeter International LIVESEED project (Reprinted from “Biodynamics in the World,” 2/17) Demeter-International e.V. as a third party linked to IFOAM EU is part of a consortium that applied last year for a project under Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The project proposal LIVESEED was successful and the project will start … Read more…
International Conference for Biodynamic Fruit Growing in November 2016 The international biodynamic fruit growers’ group has been active for more than 20 years. In conversation with the Section the wish came about to organize a larger international conference in order to achieve a new step in the development of the group and also to become more international. The fruit growers’ … Read more…
DEMETER BIODYNAMIC CERTIFICATION by bellouccello — Winter white, the bee hives wrapped up like christmas packages and a quietness once again falls onto the honey bee sanctuary. It is indeed winter here in Nova Scotia and the bee hives are all, one more time, forming their rotating cosmic globe inside of their hive and enjoying the radiance of … Read more…
Demeter USA to Begin Soil Carbon Testing on Biodynamic Farms By Jim Fullmer, Co-Director — There is much current discussion on the topic of regenerative agriculture. The Biodynamic® method of farming is based on principles of agronomic regeneration. It is not the only approach but it is one with roots back to the origin of the movement … Read more…
WELCOME TO SUMMERHILL PYRAMID WINERY IN BEAUTIFUL BRITISH COLUMBIA! We set out to make the most beautiful wines in the world; starting with organically and biodynamically grown grapes from the pristine Okanagan Valley, handling them with love and attention, allowing them to ferment naturally to retain the highest levels of antioxidants, and finishing the wines in our Pyramid Cellar built … Read more…
