PRODUCE STAND

Farm Store 101 Ackertown Road, Monsey, NY

Stop by on Fridays from 12 noon to 3 pm to pick up just-harvested hyper-local vegetables, raised on the land of Threefold Community Farm.

Biodynamic Course 2023-2024

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

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.

Large Animals and the Farm Organism

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

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.

The Individualized Farmscape and Pruning Fruit Trees

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

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

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

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.

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