Celebrating the Centennial of the Agriculture Course: Approaching the Agricultural Individuality

Public lecture by Mac Mead to open the biodynamic conference MidWinter Agriculture Intensive. For more information about the biodynamic conference, click here.

We’ll look at the context and significance of Rudolf Steiner’s Agriculture lectures given in June 1924 in Koberwitz, Silesia, and focus on a central theme, the agricultural individuality. What are the What, Why, How, and When of this guiding star of biodynamic work?

MAC MEAD, mentors Threefold Community Farm staff and interns. Mac began farming in 1975, when he had the “privilege and good fortune” to learn biodynamic methods directly from former co-workers of biodynamic pioneer Ehrenfried Pfeiffer at the Fellowship Community. In 2006, Mac became the Program Director of the Pfeiffer Center. The core instructor of our Biodynamic Course, Mac regularly speaks at conferences of the Biodynamic Association (BDA), the Northeast Organic Farming Association, and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. In 2016, he was an invited speaker at “The Spirit of Sustainable Agriculture,” a conference of the Harvard Divinity School.