Large Animals and the Farm Organism

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

The ideal biodynamic farm is a self-contained individuality to which cows contribute milk, meat, and soil fertility. Megan Durney shares about the essential nature of the animal, and Kim Vaughan covers the basics of biodynamic dairy herd management, including rotational grazing and pasture management. The day includes a visit to our herd, cow barn, and dairy, the only one in Rockland County.

Biodynamic Course 2023-2024

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

The Pfeiffer Center’s Biodynamic Course is a year-long part-time training that covers the basic principles of Biodynamic Agriculture according to the seasons, in thirteen full-day workshops.

Winter Farm Arts Course for Youth

Pfeiffer Garden Across from 275 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

The Winter Farm Arts course for youth introduces a series of hands-on, farm-to-table arts skills that inspire and renew the gardeners’ creative spirit during the quieter months on the farm.

Midwinter Agriculture Intensive

Upper Brookside 287 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

A festive celebration of the centennial year of the lectures "Spiritual Foundations for the Renewal of Agriculture," given by Rudolf Steiner in June, 1924. We will explore the inner and outer practice helpful in nurturing an independent self-sustaining individuality in lectures, open conversations, and artistic activities.

The Individualized Farmscape and Pruning Fruit Trees

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

Hugh Williams, one of the best orchardists in the East and a biodynamic farmer for over forty five years, brings his perspective on harnessing the local ecology to cultivate the farm individuality. Also covered: the science and art of pruning fruit trees, including a few hours of pruning the Pfeiffer Center’s orchard under Hugh’s expert guidance.

Seeing Nature Whole / Life Rhythms and Planting Calendar

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

In the morning, Craig Holdrege explores how to work with the living dynamic qualities of plants and animals to better understand the world around us. In the afternoon, Sherry Wildfeuer, a long-time editor of the Stella Natura planting calendar, explains how the calendar is created, what it tells us, and how we can use it to learn to work with, rather than against, nature’s rhythms and forces.

Water: H2O or Much More?

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

Water is crucial to biodynamics: Not only to water plants, but for the process of stirring, which potentizes the preparations. But do we really know what water is, what tasks it has in life processes, or how it carries them out? Jennifer Greene of the Water Research Institute takes us far beyond what we commonly know, or suppose we know, of this element.

Begin a Garden

Side Room at Threefold Auditorium 260 Hungry Hollow Rd, Chestnut Ridge, NY, United States

This workshop with Mac Mead is for anyone who wants to start a vegetable garden, incorporating basic skills for new gardeners.

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