Dear Friends of Bear River Farms, In the early 1920’s, agriculture was gripped by clearly visible changes. The orientation towards technology, science and profit-making became dominant and was leading progressively towards a non-distinction between agriculture and industry. Many farmers in Europe inwardly faced this development with great concern and growing doubts. A group of farmers pressed Rudolf Steiner for advice … Read more
This excerpt from the movie ‘The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner’ filmed by Jonathan Stedall, April – June 2011 explains what biodynamics really is.
FREE MARKETING WORKSHOP FOR OCO MEMBERS What marketing-related topic interests you most? Are you looking for new ways to market your products? Would you benefit from creative marketing ideas tailored toward farm & food businesses? GOOD NEWS: We’re offering a FREE marketing workshop for Basic and Supporting Members in November! Julianna from Promosaurus will share her extensive marketing experience to help … Read more
Musings on Biodynamic Cows, Their Horns, and the Evolution of the Earth By Jim Fullmer, Co-Director of Demeter-USA (Reprinted from the Demeter USA website, http://www.demeter-usa.org/for-farmers/for-farmers-archive/biodynamic-cows.asp) Have you ever wondered why cows have horns…? It’s a most important question. What happens in the places where the hooves and the horns are growing? A locality is created where … Read more
Summer 2020 Wine Tastings We are so excited to welcome you back to the winery. All tastings will be conducted outside on our patio and must be booked and prepaid through our reservation system. Search Available Reservations For the near term, we are limiting group sizes to 4 people who are travelling together. Each table … Read more
Member Assembly 2020 The first Member Assembly as a new Federation has started June 22. We began by welcoming 9 new members from Malaysia, Ecuador, China, Uruguay, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republic, Lithuania, Sri Lanka and Turkey. Welcome to the Biodynamic Federation Demeter International, now a federation of 47 member associations in total. To … Read more
Media release May 28, 2020 For pasture slaughtering, the farmer brings the animals with their familiar herd to a separate paddock with a raised platform, from where they can take aim at the animal to be slaughtered. Photo: Gabriela Müller The Federal Council gives the green light for farm and pasture slaughter. Farmer associations and the … Read more
Climate Protection Through Biodynamic Agriculture From scientific research in the DOK study in Therwil, Switzerland, it is known that biodynamics is the most sustainable form of agriculture. This long-term study has been comparing biodynamic (D), organic (O) and conventional (K) agriculture for 40 years and is jointly run and funded by the FiBL (Research Institute … Read more
Biodynamic Research Biodynamic research is research into the Biodynamic method of agriculture. Motivated to improve Biodynamic agriculture and deepen the understanding of it, independent research facilities emerged decades ago e.g. in 1950, the Institute for Biodynamic Research in Germany (www.forschungsring.de) was founded. They were at the same time, the first research institutions of organic farming. In some European … Read more